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Have you ever dressed up like a bee for Halloween?  Do you remember the Blind Melon video with the little girl dressed up as a bumblebee?  Did you draw a bee in your 5th<\/sup> grade artwork?  Have you dressed your baby in a bumblebee costume?  Do you eat honey? Or have you been stung by a bee?  Are you now scared of them?  Do you swat at them when they\u2019re around?<\/p>\n

No matter what your relationship is with the bee now, you need to make them your BFF because we need them. Yes, we, the almighty human race, need bees. We need them for so many reasons. Bees are pollinators, transferring seeds and pollen between flowers, allowing plants to grow and produce food. At stake are an estimated $15 billion per year of crops in the United States alone, plus all of the wild plants that bees pollinate. Bees increase crop yields and decrease production costs, not to mention all the tasty honey that they produce. You can also look at bees as a barometer of what we humans are doing to the world around us \u2014 if they are dying out, it’s a good telltale sign of where we <\/strong>as humans stand in terms of our environment, the way we farm, and how we are treating our planet.<\/p>\n