The Dancing Bee Alpacas

The biggest foreboding danger facing humans today is the loss of the global honeybee population. The consequence of a dying bee population impacts man at the highest levels on our food chain, posing an enormously grave threat to human survival. No other single animal species plays a more significant role in producing the fruits and vegetables that we humans commonly take for granted yet require near daily to stay alive. Meaning more than 130 fruits and vegetables that make up a nutritious diet are cross pollinated by honeybees. For every third bite of food we eat, bees and other pollinators were responsible for that nutrition to our bodies. It is estimated that those crops account for one trillion dollars in annual sales of agriculture products around the globe. Examples of common crops depending on bee pollination include broccoli, blueberry, cherry, apple, and cucumber.  Scientist Albert Einstein once prophetically remarked, “Mankind will not survive the honeybees’ disappearance for more than five years.”
Bolivar resident Aaron Tupis decided to face this challenge as a hobby, but learned very quickly what a unique species we stand to lose if people only look at honey bees as an annoyance.

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