Honey bees and native bees are being threatened, which is not good considering they perform 80% of pollination worldwide. A single bee colony can pollinate 300 million flowers each day. 70 out of the top 100 human food crops- which supply about 90% of the world's nutrition, are pollinated by bees.

The world wide bee collapse is not as big as a mystery as the chemical industry says it is.

Scientists found that bees are dying from a variety of these factors- drought, nutrition deficit, air pollution, global warming, habitat destruction, pesticides, and more. The bottom line is that we know humans are responsible for the two most prominent ones: habitat destruction and pesticides.

Typically a bee hive or colony will decline by 5-10% over the winter, and replace those lost bees in the spring, in a bad year, the bee colony might lose 15-20% of its bees. In the U.S., winter losses have commonly met 40-50%, in some cases even more. In 2006, Daven Hackenberg- a bee keeper for 42 years- reported a 90% die-off among his 3,000 bee hives. U.S. Agricultural Statistics showed a honey bee decline from about 6 million hives in 1947 to 2.4 million in 2008, a 60% reduction. The bees cannot keep up with the winter die-offs and habitat loss.

We encourage people to not use pesticides and to plant pollinating flowers and plants!