Bees may be the most loved insect. Whether it’s their delicious honey, the adorable fat fuzziness of a bumblebee, or the way that they pollinate more than 130 different types of fruits and vegetables and are absolutely, literally, essential to our modern diet, there’s so many things to love!
But, as we’ve heard for years now, bees are in danger. There are many threats to them, including:
- the rise of parasitic mites that destroy entire colonies;
- the widespread use of insecticides on crops that also annihilate bee colonies;
- the destruction of their native habitat;
- and the focus on honeybees, which are in much less danger than the equally-valuable but less-recognized native bees.
These are some big, challenging problems,