Many people don’t give bees a second thought except as stinging pests to be avoided. But they’ve become top of mind as their numbers have suddenly dwindled and their true value and importance to the entire food chain has emerged – we can’t eat without them. Bees pollinate food crops including apples, blueberries, cucumbers, almonds and much more. The increasing rates of colony collapse, or death of a hive, and diminishing population of bees is alarming to scientists and the worldwide food industry where 70 of the top 100 food crops have suffered losses due to the bee crisis. The problem has become so severe that millions of bees are shipped to California each February and March to help with the pollination of the almond crops since bees are in such short supply in the state.

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