With fall descending upon the Northern Hemisphere, it’s easy to forget about our beastly foes as they hunker down for winter. They are too busy storing food to help them survive the cold months. Yep, it’s easy to forget about things like the bees.
Fortunately, it may one day be perfectly acceptable to forget about the bees, because they may no longer exist. Scientists have determined, in a story we’re fairly certain we heard about over a year ago, bees have been dying off for the past couple years because of a tag-team effort between a fungus and a virus. They join forces to make the bees go nuts, fly off in all directions, and then die–alone and cold.
Kind of inspiring, isn’t it? Maybe in the War on Animals, we have overlooked teaming up with germs, spores, molds and fungi. Let’s start working together to defeat a common foe.