EDITOR – The honey bee is one of the primary pollinator’s of crops and without bees, we would be in big trouble.
Plants produce flowers inside of which are stigma on which are yellow pollen granules. In order to evolve to seed, the pollen of one plant must be transported to another plant for cross fertilisation to take place. The result is that seeds form to help procreate the species.
Honey bees are the primary source of pollinators and one may often see a bee with the telltale little yellow balls attached to their back legs. These pollen balls are transported back to the hive to provide sustenance to the young bee larvae, together with honey manufactured from the nectar gathered from the same flowers.
Bees often build their hives in residential areas and can pose a risk to humans who suffer allergies to bee stings. For those who would rather not have bees close to their house, they can call upon bee removal experts who will gladly remove the hive and transport it to a more suitable environment where the bees may still be able to be of benefit to our flowers and plants.
I am a bee remover/collector and was recently asked to remove a hive from a house in Waterfall. The morning before I was due the remove the hive, the gardener got stung by a bee and took a can of Doom and sprayed the whole hive, killing all the bees. This was totally unnecessary and was a detriment to that garden and environment.
Ken Clarke
Forest Hills
