With the real estate market down it’s not a bad time to pick up a condo, but if your budget is down like the dollar, you may want to look for something a little smaller, say a condo for bees. Sure it won’t have the features that you’d look for in a new home, like stainless steel kitchen appliances and insulated windows, but it will support the survival of the dwindling bee population and even the agriculture of the United States.

Bees have been a buzzword in the world of environmental causes lately (even Haagen-Dazs has a bee campaign) and that’s because their populations are shrinking so suddenly and in such shocking numbers (bumblebees are lingering near the endangered list) . Scientists haven’t been able to determine the cause yet, but it’s thought to be a number of factors, with global warming and pesticide use as two main concerns. The weather variations caused by global warming can prevent flowers from blooming and, in turn, bees from surviving. Rampant pesticide use, on the other hand, results in pesticides accumulating in the layers of the honeycomb and has been linked to reduced longevity for bees. Click here to read more

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