HOW BEES HELP KEEP THE EARTH AND COMMUNITIES.

WHAT THE BEES ROLE IS.

• All sorts of fruit and vegetables are pollinated by honey bees, such as broccoli and squash, apples and almonds.
• They are the pollinators of wild flowering plants and crops
• some plants rely on bumble bees to achieve pollination.

HOW DO BEES HELP OUT OUR COMMUNITY?

• Pollination is not just important for the food we eat directly, it's vital for the foraging crops, such as field beans and clover, used to feed the livestock we depend on for meat.

HOW WOULD IT EFFECT THE ECOSYSTEM IF BEES WENT EXCTINCT?

• We may lose all the plants that bees pollinate, all of the animals that eat those plants and so on up the food chain.
• Which means a world without bees could struggle to sustain the global human population of 7 billion. Our supermarkets would have half the amount of fruit and vegetables.

HOW DO BEES POLINATE?

• When bees land on a flower, like this milkweed flower, their feet often slip into a little groove that holds pollen sacs. When the bee flies away it carries