Lately I've noticed that there are swarms of bees that surround our bottle bins in the receiving area. I myself am not allergic to bee stings (to the best of my knowledge), but I did get stung when I was a little kid and I do not want to get stung again. A few of us have mentioned the issue to management but so far nothing has been done. It's funny how they are reluctant to send baggers out during thunder storms but yet they want us to work around bees (while using a forklift of course).
I would be happy to see bees considering theyre dying off in record numbers. If the bees die off were screwed.
That's very true. Bees are responsible for every third bite of food we eat. Scary part is, no body as yet can figure out exactly what's killing them off.
I just read an interesting article on this. There is a parasite called Nosema Ceranae which has been linked with this phenomenon of Colony Collapse Disorder, and it is now widely believed that the wide spread use of a multitude of pesticides and fungucides is responsible for the problem.
The solution to this will prove challenging, as to ban all these chemicals (which is hardly feasible to believe will happen) would destaballize a long existing ballance with the rest of the eco system.
Without the bees, the price of your food WILL go up even more! MARK MY WORDS!!! This is a serious issue for the farmers who have to truck in bees, because they're all dying off. That being said, we get a swarm of them around our compactor come the end of August every year, and just like that...they're gone for the rest of the year...A little inconvenient, but not too bad...Sometimes we keep a can of Raid or something to keep the numbers down. The bees also like to fly around the carts when the baggers are bringing them in, but again, it's a temporary thing, and they're gone once the weather cools.
