
Gardeners across North America and different parts of the world have been growing worried over an eerie quiet settling over their gardens — a silence caused by the missing buzzing of bees.
With the increasing use of land for development and climate change worsening the bee disappearance globally, these gardeners have had to painstakingly transfer pollen grains from flower to flower with a paintbrush, simulating the process of pollination necessary for fruit or vegetable production.