Honeybees
How to help your local pollinators
The best known honey bee is the western honey bee (Apis mellifera),
which has been domesticated for honey production and crop pollination.
They are social insects which are living on nectar and pollen.
Especially honeybees are under threat worldwide because of virulent
viruses against which they have no natural defences. Nearly all colonies
in the wild have died out and without beekeepers to care for them,
honeybees could disappear in a few years. Without bees, pollination
would be difficult and time consuming - it is estimated that one-third
of the human food supply depends on insect pollination.
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Coded by Sabine Debert.