: Why are honeybees important for nature and why do we save them ?
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I’ll keep this answer fairly short and to the point.
Basically Bees are pollinators, extremley wide spread effective pollinators. This means they polinate all our local flowers, plants etc which keep our habitats growing and in good shape which in turn provides huge amounts of oxygen for us to breathe.
Bees also pollinate farmers crops, crops would either fail or would have to be manually pollinated without Bees, neither of those are options we want to take when we can already see mass food shortages across the globe which will only get worse over time.
No bees = less food
Less food = less people
If honeybees did disappear for good, humans would probably not go extinct (at least not solely for that reason). But our diets would still suffer tremendously. The variety of foods available would diminish, and the cost of certain products would surge.
Honeybees go from flower to flower, and that helps make the flowers happy. Happy flowers make happy fruit, and veggies! If there aren’t honeybees around to do the job, other flying bugs can do the job, just not as smart as the bees. So, we save the bees because they are the smartest at their job.
Honeybees are some of the best plant pollinators. Sometimes, this process produces fruit. However, nearly all out fruit is produced this way. If there are no honeybees, we lose the majority of our fruits.
They are pollinators. Most plants need insects to carry pollen from plant to plant for cross pollination. Without this the plants couldn’t grow and /or bear fruit. If bees die, we die. Bees also produce many wonderful things that are healthy for humans. For instance :honey can be used to help with allergies. Bee pollen contains every essential vitamin and nutrient a human needs to survive and if you only ate bee pollen, roughage and water you wouldn’t need to eat anything else. There’s royal jelly, beeswax and propolis also which are just amazingly healthy.
Honeybees are great pollenators but they are also an invasive domesticated species in most of the world.
Native bees exist all over the world too, but most don’t make honey so people don’t care about them. Flies, bats, lizards, hummingbirds, moths, etc. also pollenate flowers, but bees are specialists.
Most of our fruits rely on pollenation from some type of bee, so honeybees or other native bees are important to our food supply.
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