Pest Organisms / Honey Bee

Beneficial Notes

for Honey Bee

A honey bee is a pollinator, not a pest. Bees pollinate more than 30% of the food we eat, and in the United States their work is valued at up to $15 billion in crops a year. Source: https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN1005 Their diet is only flower nectar and pollen, and as foragers move from bloom to bloom they ferry pollen between them — the very reason their nests are worth keeping in place when you can. Source: https://extension.umn.edu/yard-and-garden-insects/wasps-and-bees

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