The alarming decrease in bees has nothing to do
with any possible climate change but rather deforestation and
pollution. When I was a kiddo, bees were everywhere but so were
trees. The less places bees have to build, the less likely they
will survive or perhaps they will just move on somewhere else that
does have tress.
Pollution is also a problem. In humans, city pollution is enough to
give humans COPD, lung cancer, mesothelioma and a number of other
deadly diseases and sadly my grandma has both COPD and lung cancer,
not good stuff. If your city is very polluted then you will
probably have a chronic cough, have black boogers, and the issues
go on and on and on... Now imagine something that is much smaller
than a human, how do they feel?
Probably not good.
The issue with not having bees is that bees are required to
pollinate. Pollination basically means a male flower gets their
pollen shared with a female flower. Bees, ants, wasps, and many
other bugs will go around and pollinate by accident because they
have it on their legs or something. Without pollination, crops and
many flowers and trees won't be able to grow and when there's a
24hr window to pollinate like the Zucchini, you need them to do
their thing, otherwise you have to do it by hand and it's annoying
to do.
This is called the Apiary, it is what you use
when you need bees around your home. Why would you invite those
stinging bugs in the first place? Well, like I said, you need bees
and with the bee population dwindling, more and more people are
putting up their own Apiary to help protect their survival.
I will be setting up my own apiary soon, although right now I've
been preparing a flower bed and other things so that the bees will
be able to thrive. A single colony can have up to 60,000 bees, any
more than that and the system stops being efficient. I'm not
allergic to bees and I've heard of people whom are severely
allergic but have their own apiary because it's a great hobby of
theirs. That's pretty impressive if you ask me.
Cherry blossom trees have flowers, garden crops often times have
flowers. As someone who wants to have cherry blossom trees and try
to be self sufficient with veggies, it's at least important that I
have my own apiary and plus the amount of honey they give out is
enormous!
If you don't like honey, you can sell them for at least $15-$20 a
jar and you'll get many jars with just one colony. Of course you
shouldn't take it all, and you do so to help the colony as well.
Honey also never goes bad. If your honey looks like it's
bad, you just need to warm it up again and it will be good as new
again!
I will be posting pictures of my garden fairly soon, and also my
apiary once I get one. So far I only found expensive ones, I'm
trying to find affordable apiaries.
I know it's weird that I'm talking about gardens and bees in a
j-blog but the end result of what I'm trying to accomplish will
turn out to be Japanese influenced. (Zen garden, koi pond,
cherry blossom trees, etc)
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