These little creatures transfer pollen from one plant to another and ensure we continue to enjoy the next generation of fruit, nuts,
vegetables and wildflowers.
Sam Droege photographed these beautiful bees for National Geographic Magazine.
There's more to know here.
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live
said Maurice Maeterlinck in his book
The Life Of The Bee.
How true that quote is I don't know
and I don't wish to find out...
