• Question: why would you be a bee keeper

    Asked by to Simon on 16 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Simon Redfern answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      because I think bees are amazing creatures, and fun to watch. A bee colony is like a super-organism – individual bees can only exist within the life of the colony. And they produce honey, which is an added bonus, and they are essential for the pollination of a huge proportion of the food that we rely upon to live (without bees we would have no fruit, and lots of the animals that rely on those fruits too). Have a look at this video, which tells you more than I can write here: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140502-what-if-bees-went-extinct

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