We learn many lessons from the bees in our garden. Bees demonstrate the importance of teamwork and mutual care.

From bees we learn the reciprocity between flowers and pollinators.The flowers of plants are dependent on pollinators to make the

fruit and seeds necessary to reproduce new plants. While flowers provide bees with the nectar and pollen

worker bees collect to feed their entire colonies.

Bees are some of the most important pollinators but there are alsoother insects, birds, and small mammals that help with pollination.

Without insects, our lives would be vastly different. Insects pollinate many ofour fruits, flowers, and vegetables. We would not have much of the producethat we enjoy and rely on without the pollinating services of insects, not tomention honey, beeswax, silk, and other useful products that insectsprovide. https://extension.entm.purdue.edu/radicalbugs/index.php?=importance_of_insects

Lessons from the Bees

(Insects and Pollinators)

“It was the bees that showed me how to move between different flowers—to drink the nectar and gather pollen from both. It is this dance of

cross-pollination that can produce a new species of knowledge, a new way of being in the world.

After all, there aren’t two worlds, there is just this one good green earth.”—Robin Wall Kimmerer