7 QUESTIONS A CLOSER LOOK AT BEES
How’s your breakfast? Would it be affected if all the bees went away, do you think? It would mean no honey for your toast, of course. But if there were no bees there would also be no almonds for your muesli, no tomatoes for your V8 juice, no beans for your coffee. The tiny pollinators are crucial to a good portion of the world’s food production.
Honey bees in their huge hives with tens of thousands of residents provide us with honey and beeswax. But it is the solitary wild bee species that are the most important to more widespread crops. They are so busy pollinating that they barely have time to make honey. Read on to find out why we need to care for bees.
What types of bees are there?
Worldwide, there are 20,000+ species of bees – most in northern and southern belts
