Ashley Richards

For those who want to capitalize on possibly catastrophe, you might want to stock up on almond futures (if such a thing exists). Turns out there’s a nasty little Asian mite that has made it’s way to America and is sucking all our honey bees to death.

Turns out that 80% of the world’s almond crop is grown in California where it’s turning into “vampire mite” ground zero. If you haven’t brushed up on your ag-science lately, if there aren’t honey bees to pollenate the crops they won’t produce fruit. And what’s going to possibly happen to almonds will also happen to lemons, oranges, apples and anything else that needs a bee to reproduce.

Given the media’s penchant toward blowing things out of proportion I’m surprised we haven’t heard more about the bees dying, give that if there are no bees, no fruit, seed for birds to spread and you end up with very malnourished humans.