20 MAY, WORLD BEE DAY
We love the bee because:
– It is the basis for the survival of most plants.
– Most of our plants depend on bees for their survival.
– Thanks to them, the quality of fruit, vegetables, seeds, fibre, essential oils and other products of nature is improved.
– It protects, enriches and enhances forest and agricultural ecosystems.
– Through cross-pollination, it creates offspring that combine the hereditary traits of two parents, with genetic variability, better adaptation, survival and enhanced resistance to pests and diseases.
– We owe the delicate fragrance of the air we breathe to it as a result of a mechanism of attraction by the flowers.
To it we owe the colour of spring with the various flowers competing in beauty and colour to attract it.
– Through the pollination it performs, it improves fertility and soil protection
– It offers us unique natural products of high nutritional value with therapeutic action that contribute to our health.
– It teaches us through its society, organization, altruism, team spirit and the constant effort for the survival of the whole.
– Because it is the only productive animal that is not domesticated and killed for exploitation.
– Through the purity of her candle we pray for Divine Grace.
– We love the bee because without it, survival and human life would be almost impossible.
Whatever we love we should care for and protect. Bees belong to all of us and their contribution to the ecosystem concerns us all. The beekeeper is simply blessed to care for and serve this beneficial insect of the planet. That is why everyone should raise awareness about saving the bee from toxic pesticides, destructive herbicides, pollution of the environment, soil and water, upcoming climate change and human interference in the ecosystem.