Eli5 I just saw a meme that said bees are necessary for our existence. How does one species affect all human beings?
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There are a lot of species we need as they participate in the web of life with all the systems inside it. In the case of the bee the system involves plants creating nectar to attract bees that can help them pollinate. In the case of tigers, they keep certain prey species populations in balance so they don’t eat all vegetation which can have negative knock on effects . We can replace tigers in their role relatively easily whereas bees pollinate at such a scale that we currently cannot replicate what bees do, so losing them unlike losing a tiger would break a part of the web of life which can spell disaster.
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