FACTS ABOUT BEES

A bee is a specie diversity
A bee is a pollinator that is responsible for 80% of food we eat
A bee helps in promoting plant diversity
A bee produces honey that we eat and honey products like bees wax used in cosmetic industry
A bee is a social insect that lives like a family in colonies teaching us solidarity
A bee create jobs and increase income in communities through honey and other products it produces
Bees are used to monitor the state of forest biodiversity, the more the presence of bees or bee colonies in the forest the healthier the forest. The presence of few bees or colonies in the forest, the less healthy the forest.
Bees have been used to tackle bushfire in forest areas, to resolve human-elephant conflicts and to fight poaching of wildlife in in land and in waters as an alternative source of livelihood.
Bees suffer from the use of pesticides in farms as they do pollination in farms