Beauty And The Bees

The Sugar Sop tree planted in my front yard have a lot of fruits and the size are much bigger compare to other sugar sop. And as far as I know this tree bear fruits only once a year but this sugar sop tree bears fruit thrice a year and in succession, a new flowers will appear again right after we harvested the fruits. Me and my neighbors notice the distinction of my sugar sop tree and wondered what is the possible reason behind it.

I suspect that it is because of the presence of bees in our backyard, I noticed the presence of two beehives in my backyard one in the sugar sop tree itself and one on the Annato or Lipstick tree. I got this idea in one of the famous game in Facebook, FarmVille. I am one of the addicted player of this game and it took times before I was able to complete the Beehive. As I learned in that game, your harvest will increase if you have a bee in your farm. I did research and I learned that this is not only true in the virtual farm but also in the real one. I learned that beekeepers are earning money for moving their bees from field to field as the crop needs pollinating.

I also learned that Pollination is the process by which pollen is transferred in plants, thereby enabling fertilization and sexual reproduction. So next time you see a bee in your backyard and you think it will not be a big distraction, if it is possible just keep it there and it will help your plant to reproduce. The lesson that we should learned from this is every living things have their contribution to this world and ecological balance. We should give importance to every living things because they were not created without a purpose. With honey bees we can assure the continued reproduction of plants and trees. That means they are helping in increasing the number of plants in the world through natural process. And the more plants and trees the more air that will be cleaned.