Ode to Bees

Today's post is all about the most well known member of the insect species and that is bees. We owe so much to these little guys.

Bees are the most hardworking creatures in the animal kingdom. They work extra hard to give us the one thing that people just can't get enough of- honey. They gather nectar from flowers, then take the nectar back to the hive with them and give it to the queen- said nectar is then made into that sweet honey we like so much.
Bees work VERY VERY hard and have been making honey for about 27 million years or more as this humourous quote from the 2007 animated film Bee Movie states:
"Trudy: And you'll be happy to know that bees as a species haven't had a day off in 27 billion years. Whew!
Barry B. Benson: So you'll just work us to death?
Trudy: We'll sure try."
Bees are very hardworkers. But recently there has been a shortage of these little guys and it's been putting them in danger of near exstinction. We need bees because they are very important- their job is one that they are very skilled at and one that they'll keep doing forever and forever. Despite what Laymon T. Montgomery (voice of John Goodman) says about them in Bee Movie, bees are rather talented at they do. Bees are skilled at honey making and that's a fact. Bees are very special and important- without them we wouldn't have honey- and without them the flowers would wilt away and die and we wouldn't have any fruit either. Also without bees and their honey we wouldn't have such breakfast cereals such as Honey Nut Cheerios and Sugar Puffs which was my absolutely favourite cereal as a kid, although those ads featuring the Honey monster creeped the hell out of me, especially the ones where the kids actually turned INTO the creature, the honey monster scared the heck out of me in general- I had frequent nightmares with him in them for weeks because of those commercials- although my fear of the honey monster got worse when one of the more later ones featuring said honey monster mentioned that they had free Goosebumps bookmarks inside special packs (those books creep the hell out of us).

We owe the bees for everything that they have done for us.

We should thank them for the honey they have given us and for all the work they've done with helping flowers grow. Bees truly are amazing creatures. They work together to do what they do best and that is make honey. We published a children's book based on the story of the friendship we had with one of our very first pets Jerry the bee- we call it A Boy And His Bees. It's a heartwarming tale of friendship, discovery, caring for others and teamwork. Much like Nick Jr's famous trio the Wonderpets, bees use teamwork to work together- we could learn something from those bees. If we all worked together we could make the earth a safer place to live.