The extreme weather of 2019 has hit U.S. honeybees hard with the weather wiping out 1/3 of honey bees which 1/3 of the human diet comes from pollinators as the bees.

Strange winter weather hit U.S. honeybees hard with the highest loss rate yet, an annual survey of beekeepers showed. The annual nationwide survey by the Bee Informed Partnership found 37.7% of honeybee colonies died this past winter, nearly 9 percentage points higher than the average winter loss.

The survey of nearly 4,700 beekeepers managing more than 300,000 colonies goes back 13 years and is conducted by bee experts at the University of Maryland, Auburn University and several other colleges.

Beekeepers had been seeing fewer losses in recent years until now, said Maryland’s Dennis vanEngelsdorp, president of the bee partnership and co-author of the survey.

“The fact that we suddenly had the worst winter we’ve had … is troubling,” vanEngelsdorp said.

Bees pollinate $15 billion worth of U.S. food crops. One-third of the human diet comes from pollinators, including native wild bees, which are also in trouble, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

“We should be concerned on multiple levels,” said University of California, Berkeley, agricultural social scientist Jennie Durant, who has a study on loss of food supply for bees.

“The beekeepers are working harder than ever to manage colonies but we still lose 40-50% each year… unacceptable,” said Swiss bee expert Jeff Pettis.

The bees are in trouble from recent extreme weather events over the last 6 months which means that humanity’s food supply chain is also in trouble. And this is a sign, how events and conditions are linked prophetically which bring about the Last Days environment of prophecy.

The Biblical prophecies (Matthew 24, Luke 21, Revelation 6, Revelation 16) foretell that extreme weather and famine will be signs of the Last Days indicating the coming end of the age.

It is time to prepare for the nearing appearance of Jesus Christ by being born again spiritually into the Kingdom of God as Jesus said we must (John 3) and His Apostles described how (Matthew 16:19, Acts 2).

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