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Why are honey bees dying.

• I believe honey bees are dying because people are using chemicals on their gardens which are poisoning the bees

Other facts which are hurting the bees are:

• There are less flowers

• There are less beekeepers
• Climate change

Why we need bees

Bees pollinate the plants to make them grow fruit, vegetables and flowers. Without bees we would not be able to grow food.

A Queen bee lays between 600-800 eggs each day and about 292,000 eggs a year.

Bees spread pollen from male flowers to female flowers.

They collect the pollen on their legs when collecting nectar to take back to the hive.

Bees take the nectar back to their hives and make honeycomb.  Without bees I would not be able to have honey on toast.

To help save bees we can help them by doing these things.

• Stop spraying chemicals on our gardens and on the flowers.
• Have water outside for the bees to drink.
• We can grow more flowers to attract bees.
• We can keep more bees in hives with bee keepers looking after them .
• We can look after the environment.