Hoosier Outsider is hardly the only one openly lamenting the sudden disappearance of bees…At least not anymore. The Chicago Tribune editors get it. They published an editorial on Friday, which starts:
If you haven’t watched the dance of bees, either in the hive or on clover or in the air, then you may not understand why they are so important. If we needed a perfect model for a society, we would find it in the hive. Not for us, mind you, because we are individuals, but for bees, because they all seem to fit together so well. Each exists for the greater good, the drones and soldiers, the queen, the persistent workers.
The editorial goes on to note the crucial role bees play in our everyday lives…”every third bite of food we take is there because the work of a bee.”
Colony Collapse Disorder, mites, unknown virus…whatever the cause of the disappearance, the Trib notes, as did Hoosier Outsider, that “a summer without bees is unthinkable.”
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