Who hasn’t seen a little honeybee buzzing around their garden and felt simultaneously apathetic and frightened of that bee and his little stinger. However fearful of that stinger you may be, however, surely you could not deny the little honeybee his right to buzz around your flowers and make that delicious product you like to put in your tea and on your toast each morning, right?

Unfortunately, as organicconsumers.org reports, “honeybee populations in the United States continued their decline last year, according to a survey of bee health by the Apiary Inspectors of America; U.S. commercial beekeepers saw the loss of 36 percent more hives than last year.” Make sure you read the article to learn the rest of the facts and how much we need honeybees around to continue pollinating our crops each year!