Bees are essential pollinators, let them "bee"

Don't kill the bees in your garden!

Bees are extremely important to life on the planet as a whole. It might be tempting to swat the bee away, but around 75 percent of flowering plants and 35 percent of the world's food crops depend on pollinators like bees.

If you happen to have fruit trees, vegetables, and flowers in your garden, bees help them thrive by transferring pollen between plants.

Bees improve garden health by increasing yields of fruits and vegetables. Pollination encourages stronger, more resilient plants. A bee-friendly yard attracts butterflies, birds, and other beneficial creatures.

Bee populations are under threat. Pesticides, habitat loss, and climate change are causing declines.

By supporting bees in your yard, you’re helping reverse pollinator decline on a local level. And despite common beliefs, yard bees don’t want to sting; most bees are non-aggressive and sting only when provoked. So basically, if you leave them alone, they will leave you alone.