Save the Honeybee:
Nearly one-third of our food crops require pollination by honeybees.

In the last five years, the U.S. has lost 35% of these industrious insects’ population. Be it tracheal mites, varroa mites, African hive beetles, pesticides, poor bee nutrition, or cell phone use, it is not known exactly what is causing Colony Collapse Disorder (a mysterious disorder causing the disappearance of millions of honeybees). Left unsolved, it will seriously affect the availability of the food we eat, and the resulting shortage of food for wild life would effect the populations of birds and animals.

What can you do? Buy local honey, do not buy foreign honey. Buy local and if possible organic food. Never spray flowering plants with pesticides. Write to your senators and representatives in Congress on the federal level and do the same on the state level to support funding of honeybee research. Put pressure on politicians to reinstate laws that used to prevent importing bees into the country and transporting them across state borders. Large or small, any effort you make to help honeybees or increase awareness is a step towards healthy honeybees, healthy crops, and, consequently, healthy humans.