After an English television station asked its followers on their social networks to work together in favor of bees, many, especially lovers of bees, dedicated themselves to sharing photos of bees drinking sugar water. The request was simple: place a spoon of sugar on the patio.
“At this time of year, the bees can often appear dead or tired, yet they are far from that. The bees can get tired and simply do not have enough energy to return to the hive, which can often result in them falling or falling, ”the post of this television network reads.
“If you find a tired bee in your house, a simple solution is to put sugar and water in a small container and it will help revive an exhausted bee. Just mix two tablespoons of white granulated sugar with one tablespoon of water and put it on a spoon for the bee to reach. ”
The best thing people can do is keep flowering plants in their gardens and avoid pesticides, the post says. If you go the sweeter route, be careful what type of sugar you use. Specifically, white sugar (sucrose) should be used to supplement the shortage of honey in the hive and to prevent colony starvation, according to the Department of Primary Industries.
Bees collect nectar, or sucrose, from flowering plants before storing it as honey for later use in winter and others when flowering plants are not available. In the process of maturing nectar, a chemical conversion of sucrose (nectar) to fructose and glucose occurs by an enzyme that occurs naturally in flower nectar and is added by bees.
Bee feeding has been touted as a way to help prevent starvation in already fragile bee populations.
“In the last five years, the bee population has dropped by a third. If bees disappeared from the face of the earth, humans would have only four years to live, “the publication said.
Preventing further declines in bee populations is crucial to protecting the world’s food sources. One in three bites of food worldwide depends on bees that pollinate about 80 percent of the flowering plants on Earth. In the US alone, poultry pollinate as much as 75 percent of fruits, nuts, and vegetables.
Around the world, bees have been disappearing in a mysterious mass disappearance in which healthy bees suddenly leave their hives, never to return. Other causes of bee decline around the world include global warming, habitat loss, and parasite infestations.
So, go ahead and have a spoonful of sugar to help the bee’s medicine go down.
