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Except during the honey production period, bee farms make
profits by growing worker bees and queen bees and selling
beehives or producing beekeeping products such as royal
jelly,* propolis,* and beeswax in addition to honey. Therefore,
Last,butNOTLeast!
to support the stabilization and sustainable growth of the bee-
farmingindustry,Iplantobreedvarietiesthatcanharvestalot
ofroyaljellyandpropolisinadditiontovarietieswithexcellent
TheArgus:OneFinalWordtoHUFSStudentsand
honeycollectionabilitysuchastheJangwonbee.
ReadersofTheArgus,Please.
Also, as the number of honeybee diseases is gradually
Recently, the mass disappearance of honeybees has raised
increasing due to climate
interest in the preservation of honeybees within the country.
change,Iwillalsotrytobreed
However, since a few years ago, foreign countries have been
more resistant honeybees to
paying attention to the decreases in honeybees. For example,
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solve the decline in honey
the United States designated seven species of native Hawaiian
productivity. Besides, for
bees as endangered species in 2016, and Australia is also
active and efficient breeding
trying to come up with measures to cope with the 70 percent
research, it is necessary
decrease in honey production in the south in 2019. On May 3,
to collect and preserve
2019,theAmericanSeedCompanyhasalreadyshownwhatthe
honeybees¡¯ genetic resources,
tablewillbelikeifhoneybeesgoextinctin2100.Ifhoneybees
but it is difficult to introduce
become extinct, grapefruits, berries, cucumbers, and peas,
live honeybees in foreign
whichallrequirehoneybeepollination,willdisappear;andnuts
countries under the current
andavocadosthathaverecentlygainedpopularityinthemidst
quarantine law. Therefore, by
ofthecrazeforvegetariandietswillalsodisappear.Also,with
introducing honeybee semen
the elimination of other vegetables except root vegetables that
with excellent blood and
grow underground, grass for herbivores will also disappear,
artificiallyinseminatingitinto
reducingtheproductionofmeatanddairyproducts.Ofcourse,
a domestic queen bee, I will
sweet honey will disappear, too. Therefore, humans need to
¡ãApiculturistChoiYong-soo
preserve resources for future
take measures to protect honeybees before things get worse,
believesthatmanystudiesare
generations.
andthisrequiresyourattention.
calledfortoprotecthoneybees.
*Royal jelly: It is a substance that bees make in order to feed young bees and
queenbees.
*Propolis: It is a red and brown resinous substance collected by honeybees from
treebuds,usedbythemtofillcrevicesandtofixandvarnishhoneycombs.
MassextinctionistherapidchangeintheEarth¡¯senvironmentandthedisappearanceofunadoptedcreaturesatthesame
time.Sofar,therehavebeenfivemassextinctioninEarth¡¯shistory.Andrightnow,asixthmassextinctionisapproaching.
Thedifferencebetweenthissixthmassextinctionandothermassextinctionsisthathumansarethefactorsthatrapidly
changetheEarth¡¯senvironment,notasteroidimpacts,orlarge-scalevolcaniceruptions.Itcanbeseenfromtheexamples
ofmassextinctionsthat¡°thetoppredatormustdisappear.¡±Thisisbecausepredatorslocatedatthetopofthefoodchain
aregreatlyaffectedbytheextinctionofcreaturesinthelowerstagesofthefoodchain.Asarepresentativeexample,all
dinosaurs,whichwerethetoppredators,wereextinctduringthebest-knownfifthmassextinction.Therefore,thebiggest
damageofthissixthmassextinctionwillreturntoourtoppredators,humans.
Thus, before the impending crisis engulfs humanity at some point, humans should take the growing crisis seriously
and deal with it while considering harmony with nature. The spring of this year, about seven billion honeybees that
disappearedinKoreaarebynomeansasmallnumber.Atatimewhennooneispayingmuchattentiontohoneybeesthat
areslowlydyingout,whydon¡¯twepayattentiontoprotectourselvesfromthechaosofmassextinction?
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