Why Bees Should Be Our Revered Insect!

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When I conceived of Fur Heaven’s Sake & Furbay, I began by thinking about how to help our local community animal charities and organizations. God knows they need it!

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True to life’s plan, when you open a book cover and read the book, you learn a little or a lot! And I’m glad I did; indeed, it was necessary to carry me through the difficult times of building the Fur Heaven’s Sake website. Whenever I thought it was too overwhelming to build the concept I had to help animals, I would look at those in need, and their eyes told me why I shouldn’t quit. An animal's eyes can not only ask for help, but they can send it into our souls.

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My Furbay story for today is about bees, and I am privileged to have a reason to do so. I was told at an early age that without bees, our food source for the entire planet would expire! I remember when I was young, we captured them in jars with holes in the cover to keep them alive and then released them in a few minutes.

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It was my first in-depth introduction to bees, and instinctively, I knew they were different and exceptional in the insect world!

They were beautiful to look at inside the slippery glass, their colors to be envied, and their eyes emitted a purpose, a reason, if you will, that they were not meant to die in that glass jar but to fulfill a mission! At least it was apparent to me, and I didn’t fully know why, but the bees and I became friends in some strange and inexplicable way. Releasing them was more satisfying than initially capturing them. 

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Perhaps, in a way, I was stung by the bees after all…

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So, for those of you who may have similar memories of how humans are introduced to bees, we are lucky! We may not have known back then how important bees were to our continued future, but somehow, in some way, looking into the eyes of those bees in the glass jar telling me they had a purpose, a mission, that benefited me made me more anxious to st them free. You could call it having conversations with another dweller of importance on our planet Earth.

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I hope you read this Furbay Story on bees. I reiterate how happy I am to be reminded how wonderful bees really are.

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I  include all the reasons that you, me, and everyone should help bees survive by planting flowers or bushes that attract them. They don’t hurt you. I used to sit on my property hillsides where I had red and white clover. And they would buzz around me for the nectar they sought, and never ‘once’ stung me. I enjoyed looking at them beside my legs and never bothered to land on them. I guess my legs weren’t sweet enough for them.

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For all of us who believe we will need food in the future…we need to pay attention to the plight of our bees!

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https://www.beekeeping4hope.org/

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https://www.beekeeping4hope.org/bees

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The rest of this story is from James Wheeldon and associates, who are more than just beekeepers and educators. They are our future. I think that it is worth donating to…

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-wheeldon-348b27252/

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https://www.beekeeping4hope.org/bees

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I hope you enjoyed Furbay’s stories of animals. There are many stories about what they give us, and giving them all is impossible. But if you donate to Furbay or to the stories we post, whatever you can…you become part of the solutionand not part of the problem. God bless our unity with them… 

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When you donate to Furbay, you donate to them all…

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https://www.furheavenssake.org/

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