It is a very common Indian habit to pluck flowers for free from public gardens and offer them before God. Many people indulge in this habit.
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While going for their morning walk many carry plastic bags in which they gather flowers they have plucked from public gardens, the road side and even the compounds of their own housing societies.
Now if we ask any person on the street, most would consider this to be an utterly harmless habit.
But is the habit of plucking flowers really as harmless as it looks? Unfortunately it is not! Not only is the plucking of flowers an extremely selfish habit, for it deprives other people from enjoying the beauty of flowers, but more importantly it deprives bees, butterflies and other crucial pollinating insects of their food.
Bees and butterflies especially are dependent on the nectar of flowers for their food. Without drinking the nectar of flowers these beneficial insects will die. Their species already is under severe threat of extinction around the world.
As the article below explains bee populations around the world are collapsing. Rampant use of pesticides have killed off bees across the world, so much so that farmers are now having to perform pollination of fruit trees by hand.
By further depriving bees of their food through our habit of plucking flowers, we are putting additional strain on their already declining numbers. Bees are crucial pollinating agents. Without them many of the fruits and vegetables that we eat will disappear from our tables. Therefore not only must we stop using bee-killing pesticides, but we must also give bees a helping hand so that they can survive.
By giving up the selfish habit of plucking flowers and offering them to God, we will be leaving food for nature’s little workers – the honey bees. We can always make do with tulsi leaves or market bought flowers instead. Flowers purchased from the market are specially grown by farmers for worship purposes and by purchasing them we will be helping both the farmers and the bee species local to our city/town thrive.
The Bee Is Declared The Most Important Living Being On The Planet
Its sting hurts a lot, but if they were to disappear, it would hurt much more.
The Earthwatch Institute concluded in the last debate of the Royal Geographical Society of London, that bees are the most important living being on the planet, however, scientists have also made an announcement: Bees have already entered into extinction risk.
Bees around the world have disappeared up to 90% according to recent studies, the reasons are different depending on the region, but among the main reasons are massive deforestation, lack of safe places for nests, lack of flowers, use of uncontrolled pesticides, changes in soil, among others.
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