{"id":83205,"date":"2025-05-18T02:03:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T08:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=83205"},"modified":"2025-05-18T02:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T08:06:11","slug":"83205","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/83205\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Forget about the Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bees Are Behind Our Food And Natural Medicines \u2013 And They\u2019re Disappearing<\/a><\/h1>\n

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Bees are dying\u2014and at an alarming rate.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Between 2023 and 2024, US beekeepers lost an estimated\u00a055.1 percent<\/a>\u00a0of their colonies\u2014the worst loss in more than a decade and nearly 15 percent higher than the previous 13-year average.<\/h2>\n

Bees pollinate three-quarters of the fruits, vegetables, and nuts we eat, and many of us rely on bee products for their nutrition and health-promoting gifts.\u00a0If bees vanish, it\u2019s scary to think of all we stand to lose. And some say that if the bees go, we go too.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Jeff Pettis, president of Apimondia\u2014The International Federation of Beekeepers\u2019 Associations\u2014sums up the health benefits that bees offer humans in one word: huge.<\/h2>\n

Although two-thirds of our diet comes from carbohydrates\u2014crops like rice, wheat, and corn\u2014which are pollinated by wind rather than insects, many other important foods require bees.<\/h2>\n

\u201cSo we\u2019re not going to starve if we don\u2019t have bees. But literally, everything you can think of that\u2019s nutritious\u2014fruits, nuts, and vegetables\u2014all of those are, we\u2019ll call it, animal-pollinated.<\/strong>\u00a0The vast majority of those are pollinated by honey bees or other wild bees,\u201d he told The Epoch Times.<\/h2>\n

RTWT @ Renegade Tribune<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Additional Reading:<\/h2>\n

The History of Bees\u00a0 (Fiction)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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