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FLOOD WIPES OUT CONROE BEE KEEPERS HIVES

You might all have heard this famous quote, “If the bee disappeared off the face of the Earth, man would only have four years left to live.” which is mostly attributed to famous scientist Albert Einstein probably, but there is no correct attribution and evidence that Einstein ever said that, said Michael Pocock, an ecologist with the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Despite whoever quoted this, it is quite worthy and an eye-opener for all of us. If bees get extinct, do we just realize that it will not be all about just lack of honey, but there is a very important and lethal fact about declining bee population which is rapidly decreasing than expected. These tiny creatures are of very important to maintain an ecological balance. It is quite an alarming situation and of great concern that if bees go extinct, we will suffer from a pollinator apocalypse followed by extreme food scarcity and human extinction nearly after it. Even if we find other means of novel technologies to fulfill the food scarcity it won’t be enough to fill the needs of such a blooming population worldwide. Though bees are not the only pollinators that play this role of pollination, these tiny creatures contribute a lot in the pollination of around most of the crop species that feed 90% of the world (sources). They are responsible for most of the food production by pollination of our important crop plants by acting as a mediator of pollen transfer between the different flowers. We already know that the population of bees has started to decline considerably and it’s leading to “Colony Collapse Disorder” (CCD) the name given to mass dying of bee populations by experts. Then two weeks ago Tropical Storm Imelda paid it’s a visit to Conroe and in the processes wiped out Conroe residents Pat Sturgeon’s hundreds of beehives. Sturgeons who resides near the intersection of FM 1485 and SH 105 East woke up the morning the rains pounded Conroe. At 5 am he looked out and there was some water outside. An hour later he was standing in water in his mobile home. From there on the water kept rising to the point it was over SH 105. Never in his life has it come up this high, He said even during Harvey it came up to the road but went down quickly. This time was different and by the time it was over hundreds of his beehives, boxes and frames had washed away. He has spent the past tow weeks retrieving his hives from the woods and the creek beds in and around his home. Currently, he is attempting to find a way to move over fifty of them back across 105 to his property. He doesn’ know what it will take to set them up again and get them active. Currently, not one bee is to be seen around the hives.

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