I live in an apartment complex which is luckily surrounded by some green space around it. Hence squirrels, mynas and pigeons visit our balconies often. From past one month there is a colony of bees which have mistaken humans to be friendly. First they built their hive in of the balconies , our pest control guys actually sprayed some chemical which made their colony un usable. Then they made a hive in one of the lower floors, this time they burnt down the hive. The next morning, i felt sad to be walking on a bed of dead bees.
Now, the point is people in our apartment, are not wrong in bringing the hive down, since they build very close for comfort right in the balconies where we dry clothes, keep plants, kids walk around. But at the same time, there are no more huge trees in Bangalore, so where do bees go? Where do they build their colony?
India has suddenly woken up to benefits of haldi, honey and ghee but what are we doing to produce them?
We are demolishing trees in the name of road widening, apartments and malls so honey bees and even crows have become rare. Gone are the days when I used be woken up by my deep slumber in the afternoon by some crow , now I long to see a crow and have not seen one from many a days.
Every body seems to have noticed the disappearance of sparrow but I have seen even crows disappear in my part of Bangalore.
Now, the point is people in our apartment, are not wrong in bringing the hive down, since they build very close for comfort right in the balconies where we dry clothes, keep plants, kids walk around. But at the same time, there are no more huge trees in Bangalore, so where do bees go? Where do they build their colony?
India has suddenly woken up to benefits of haldi, honey and ghee but what are we doing to produce them?
We are demolishing trees in the name of road widening, apartments and malls so honey bees and even crows have become rare. Gone are the days when I used be woken up by my deep slumber in the afternoon by some crow , now I long to see a crow and have not seen one from many a days.
Every body seems to have noticed the disappearance of sparrow but I have seen even crows disappear in my part of Bangalore.
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