Watch: Honey bees are a key to human existence

 

The importance of bees in our everyday life is underestimated. The world’s bee population and the effect they have on our food supply is a lesser known fact. 

 

In the video, posted to YouTube by Kurz Gesagt – In A Nutshell, we’re shown just how important bees are to our mere existence. 

 

How many of us know without bees, much of the plant life we rely on would cease to exist? To say we rely on the pollination efforts of bees (and other animals) to sustain our modern food system is an understatement.

 

The video brings to our attention that honey bees are slowly dying out.In the past few years, beekeepers have seen up to a 90 percent drop in colony population — a worrying statistic, given the importance of the little bugs.