Should Honey Bees Play In Our Society

Bees are insects that are needed in today's society more than humans can imagine. Bees live in colonies that are often maintained by beekeepers. Centuries of selective breeding by humans have created honey bees that produce far more honey than the colony needs. Beekeepers harvest the honey. They provide a place for the colony to live and to store honey in. The modern beehive is made up of a series of square or rectangular boxes without tops or bottoms placed one on top of another. Inside the boxes, frames are hung in parallel, in which bees build up the wax honeycomb in which they both raise brood and store honey. Modern hives enable beekeepers to transport bees, moving from field to field as the crop needs pollinating and allowing the beekeeper to charge for the pollination services they …show more content…
When the honeybee lands on a flower and that flower has pollen which is usually located somewhere near or inside the flower, the bee sucks up the pollen, and get the pollen on its body, and as the bee goes to another flower, that pollen mixes with the new flower and then seeds are produced and from there the flower starts to grow when that seed takes root somewhere. Without being pollinated, the crops cannot grow which, for us humans, it means that there will be a serious tremendous amount of shortage for fruits and vegetables. Bees also supply human beings with many different products that are made out of honey. These products include; soap, lip balm, honey. These products are used for medicinal purposes as well as food. The honey bee is a major pollinator of many of our food crops. For instance, almonds, apples, avocados, blueberries, cantaloupes, cherries, cranberries, cucumbers, sunflowers, watermelon and many other crops all rely on honey bees for pollination. This shows that bees are insects that are far more important in our society than what humans give them credit