05/21/2026
Celebrating 🐝 yesterday, today & everyday. 💛
Bees are vital parts of our ecosystem: they pollinate one-third of all the food we eat, strengthen soil, feed livestock, contribute to the biodiversity that keeps us and our planet alive, and produce healing products like honey and propolis.
Honey bees (of the genus “Apis” ) account for only seven of the more than 20,000 species of bees in the world, but play a particularly important role in worldwide agriculture, pollinating 80% of all cultivated crops! While honey bees live in large hive colonies, 70% of all bees live solitary lives underground, and are instrumental in keeping soil healthy and fertile!
But habitat loss, climate change, chemical pesticides, invasive plant species, disease, and parasites are all threatening the pollinators of the Earth. If we don’t work to save bees, who are dying at unprecedented rates, we are facing a detrimental collapse to the ecosystem and to biodiversity—and a future without fragrant flowers, almonds, apples, onions, blueberries, cucumbers, and carrots.
Support efforts to save the bees with organizations like the Bee Conservancy, World Wildlife Foundation, and Save the Bees.
Api the Bee written and illustrated by Seeding team member (and bee-lover)
