Bees 

Our wonderful bees are dying.  They have been dying for multiple reasons but have always been dying due to natural causes.  Bees just like any other animal are on the food chain and have predators.

 “Predation by a bird, a bear eating tons of honey and larva from a social bee nest, parasites like other invertebrates, fungus, other microorganisms devouring bee eggs or larva, and more,” Sarah Kornbluth said.  Sarah Kornbluth is a bee biologist and works at the natural history museum. 

Now do keep in mind that humans are responsible for part of the fact that bees are dying. Humans have wrecked natural habitat in the past and still do. 

“We destroy and fragment habitat as we develop land to suit our needs (or suit our greed) by removing both floral and nesting habitat.” Sarah Kornbluth stated. Plating non-native plants doest help much either.

 “We plant non-native plants that we think are pretty or easy to care for that are not part of the food web…So the living things here are not used to interacting with non-native species.” Sarah explained. Non-native plants also can harm other species. 

We are able to help bees in the long run.

 “One important thing is to plant native plants instead of non-native plants or lawns.” Sarah Kornbluth had said. It turns out that lawns are very bad for the environment as well. Lawns waste so much water that could be used for something else. Like stated earlier non-native plants can do harm but native plants are able to do the opposite and bring prosperity to the ecosystem. Anything you do as well that hurts the environment can hurt bees too! So next time you want to buy your friend a gift instead of getting them something cheap that will probably end up in a landfill, you could get them a native plant that is either already planted or ready to plant it themselves!