Why Are Bees Important?

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Five Reasons Bees Are Important:

-40% of the world’s food supply relies directly on pollination.

Your favorite fruits, vegetables, and even your late night snack could rely on the pollination of bees. The flowering fruits and veggies that you make last minute trips to the grocery store to pick up would be gone without cross pollination. You’re probably wondering “aren’t there other forms of pollinators?” Well of course there is but none of them trump the Honey Bee! A grasshopper, although it is considered a potential pollinator, will never transport as much pollen as a bee will in its lifetime. Honey Bees hold a very important role in our ecosystem. Take care of them.

-Health Benefits of Honey are too good to pass up!

1. Honey is an amazing immune system booster. Every morning you can take a spoonful of honey from your local Apiary and it will have such an effect on your sinuses. After a week, you’ll say screw your daily allergy medication.. I’ll take honey instead!
2. This next one isn’t something that has been proven in science yet, but it is believed that honey helps with cancers and heart disease. If you’re worried that you could run into these health troubles, it wouldn’t hurt to start taking a daily dose of honey.
3. It helps with stomach ulcurs too! I personally have troubles with stomach ulcurs. As i’m writing this my stomach is in pain but when I make a little honey tea, or a spoonful my stomach calms down. For all of you that struggle with stomach ulcurs I would strongly recommend trying honey on top of your bland diet that you’re most likely on.

-A Beehive Adds An Attraction To Your Garden.

Most people that are afraid of bees have never been in a controlled environment with a hive and an experienced beekeeper. Reaching out to a local apiary would help so many people get over their fear of bees. They aren’t meaning to hurt you when they sting. They are only protecting their hive. Once you are used to bees and have taken it upon yourself to become educated in the subject, you can add a personal hive to your garden and watch your plants prosper!

-Bees help brighten up your flower garden and increase crop yields.

Bees play an important role in garden health. As mentioned earlier, the Honey Bee is a major pollinator of the world. This extends not only to crops like cucumbers and green beans but also to your favorite pink roses that you buy every year for your mother’s birthday. Having your own backyard beehive will have amazing effects on your garden, so good that you’ll wonder why you didn’t have one sooner. If you think you have too many tomatoes and cucumbers now, just wait until the bees give back in double!

-The Sweet Reward of Honey, Honey Comb, Wax, and Propolis

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Unbeknownst to some, you can actually harvest more than honey from a beehive. The following is harvestable from a beehive:

1. Honey - sweet, thick liquid produced by a colony of bees as food
2. Honeycomb - used as storage for honey and brood. They are wax capped and can also be used as a chewing gum as long as you don’t swallow it.
3. Wax - harvested from honey combs. It is used to cap honey and brood in a honeycomb or brood comb.
4. Propolis - made from bee spit and tree wax, Bees use this glue to paste the frames and fill holes in their hive walls.

All of these harvestable materials can be sold to people all over the world! Local honey is the best honey. Some apiaries sell honey upward of $15 a pint!

Conclusion:

We need to stand up and help these bees. Without our help they will fall to infestation of mites, pesticides, and other harms that we are causing to them. As a side note, I’m considering making a little beekeeping series to promote bee health and bee education for the Steemit platform. Comment below if you have any questions you would like answered and I’ll get back to ya as soon as I can. If I find a question asked multiple times I’ll make an article about it!

If you would like to support in the form of a monetary donation here are a few links that you can check out. I would like to advise you that I am in no way, shape, or form affiliated with any of these non-profits so please take cautionary measures in researching and reaching out to the companies before making a charitable donation. I have not made a monetary offering to a non-profit as of yet so I don’t have one that I can personally vouch for so here are a few that look strong:
Planet bee Foundation
The Honeybee Conservancy
Bee Informed