Flowers require bees to visit

Photo taken with a FZ70 LUMIX camera by Rod Young

Following is a selection of flowers taken in a good light as we muse on bees that produce honey.

The life cycle of a bee is 24 days

The evolution of the plants that need fertilisation happened with the insects that did that pollinating.

Now humans consume food that has 70% of it trouched by bees

And we used chemicals that hurt bee hives with limited regulation

While the population of humans rise from 70,000 years before present when 1,000 individuals were scattered in groups of 30 people till now 2016 AD with 7,400,000,000 individuals.

This was not just a linear line of population growth be an exponential one 

The number of humans was below 1,000,000,000 in 1820 AD.

And below 3,000,000,000 in 1969 AD

Will life return to green pond sludge?

Or dry up and be Barron?

That is a question for the bees.