Man-Animal War: Are Bees on a Kamikaze Mission?

Before I brief the readers on the latest development in animal attacks on humans, I should make one realization perfectly clear: humans need animals more than animals need us. Simply put, humans are at the top of the food chain, whereas most animals are a little further down the trough. The weakness of being at the top of the food chain is that eliminating humans has no effect on those lower in the chain, whereas eliminations at the center or the bottom create a chain reaction toward the top. I think the bees know this.

Einstein probably didn't say that "if bees were eliminated from the planet, humans would follow only four years later," but there is still some truth in it. Scientists estimate that over a full quarter of the human diet comes from plants pollinated by bees; apples and almonds would not be possible without these little pests. Even cows, which we depend on for Big Macs and Whoppers, depend on the bees to pollinate their alphalpha cud. And, in case you are wondering, there is no way man-made technology could match the efficiency and work ethic of these colonies (our fragility in the food chain begins to take shape). So it is not alarmist when scientists begin worrying about the drastic disappearance of honeybees, because our food supply truly is dependent upon their survival (read this article from Yahoo! News).

So, as long as scientists are at a loss for why honeybees are disappearing, consider this theory: they are on a kamikaze mission to cut off the food supply to us humans. Don't believe me? Then let me remind you, the kamikaze mission is written into the bee's DNA. Remember that stinger that kills them when they use it? That's because they see the big picture.

And now bees have demonstrated another form of attack: swarming hospitals and cutting off our emergency services. On Monday, 7,000 bees swarmed a hospital in Little Rock, AK forcing the hospital to shut down its ER while it cleared them out. Read The State's summary.

This is a sneaky tactic., one may we be completely defenseless against. So, beware of killing bees. That may be exactly what they want.