The Flies and the Bees

There is one thing I wish for my child, and that is to grow up in a world with bees. Because let's face it - without bees there won't be a world to speak of.

I often sit at work discussing with other really busy collageues possible end of the world scenarios, and our plans to survive the impending apocalypse.

Meteor, Solar Storm, Virus Outbreak, Earthquake, Volcano.

These would all be hard to survive. Especially when you factor zombies into the equation. Basically none of the upperclass would survive a technological breakdown of communication, electricity, and sanitation.

Take Mark Francis from Made in Chelsea. He's not going to survive ten seconds in a post-apocalyptic society. Your Butler might be able to make a nice platter of cheeses, but I doubt they know how to wield or discover any high end weaponry, nor would they be willing to eat out of the garbage, wheres I eat things out of my own garbage at least once a week, as long as it's still on the top and not covered by a dirty pad or anything.

Mark Francis - not surviving anything. He'd probably kill himself if he woke up and his hairdryer was broken.

Basically you need to know that you can without pain of conscious shoot the person sitting across from you right now. I could. If it was a matter of me eating the last of the tinned goods then i'm afraid you better kiss your ass goodbye.. (if anyone asked, i'd just say you looked a bit zombie-ish. no one wants to share their tinned goods with someone who might go zombie on them. what a waste.)

And whilst I definitely think that the world could one day be headed for some unforseen apocalypic event, the one thing that weighs on my mind a lot of the time are the Bees... or the lack of bees.

I'm sure by now most people have heard about the mysterious disappearance of bees over the past decade. It's quite disturbing. To think that we might not have them around to help polinate the planet is pretty pant shittingly terrifying.

To this end I've always been a friend to bees. If a bee wants to sting me then so be it. Sting away and thanks for the flowers man. However there isn't a lot of things one can do in the endeavour to help the bees except becoming a bee keeper. I have a window box and always encourage bees to hang out in it... like setting up a Pollen Bar and a Strip Bee. (not really).

I do like to watch the bees in my window box, but I think the season of the bee is over, as we now are heading into winter, and there will be no more polinsation this year.

or WILL THERE!!!

I witnessed some very interesting phenomenon this weekend, interesting, disturbing, and maybe life changing phenomenon.

I saw flies hanging out in my flower garden rubbing themselves all over my flowers!!!!!! Granted they didn't seem to know what they were doing, it's like they were copying the behaviour of bees, but not understand the full process.

Do you think that maybe flies are here to save us? I mean really what good is a fly anyway? Spreads disease, makes picnics unbearable, makes it hard to see africans through the fly-haze all over their faces.

Perhaps flies are the ultimate underdogs. Flies could be the answer to everything, they are essentially Bees in Emo outfits. Maybe we've been underestimating them this whole time. If a fly can carry faeces from a dog poo to a dinner plate, then surely they can carry some pollen from one flower in need to another.

So perhaps the next time you see a fly, nudge it towards the flowers and put the pesticide down, because that's what may have caused this bee-pocalypes in the first place.

FLIES FOR THE FUTURE!!!