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Bees: our food concentrateImagine you are on a farm. The farm has a variety of flowers and suddenly a bee flies to a flower next to you! Your first instinct is to run as far away from the flower as possible and scream, right? However, what you haven't thought about is what the bees are actually doing. Bees are one of the most important and hard-working insects in the world. They help produce the food that sits on the table in front of you when you eat. Without the help of bees there would not be the amount of food we have today. Food comes from crops, and bees pollinate most crops by moving pollen from flower to flower to allow them to mate. The flower then produces food, which is what we eat. Unfortunately, over three million colonies have died and most of them died due to pesticides used by people. However, to prevent bees from becoming extinct, there are many ways to do so. Bees are insects that pollinate about 90% of crops. Therefore, they help produce most of the foods we eat right now. Without bees, grocery stores would be pretty empty; almost 50% of the food contained in it w...