Glyphosate, an herbicide and active ingredient in Monsanto’s (now Bayer’s) Roundup weed killer, targets enzymes long assumed to be found only in plants. The product is advertised as being innocuous to wildlife.
Learn more about how Angelina Jolie is an advocated for the bees and woman in beekeeping. She was recently named as the “godmother” for Women for Bees, a five-year program launched by UNESCO. The initiative aims at building 2,500 beehives and restocking 125 million bees by 2025 while training and supporting 50 women beekeepers.
If you ask a biologist about how many types of bees are in the world, the answer probably surprises you. Bees are classified into 4000 different genera, which include around 25000 individual bees. This number is continuously increasing as we have many more species of bee to be discovered.
Bees' symbolic meaning varies. In Buddhist culture, the honey bee symbolizes rebirth because their lord Buddha gave a new life to a monkey who brought him a honeycomb and some fruits as a gift. Likewise in Hinduism, gods like Vishnu, Krishna, and Indra have associations with a bee.
