The honey bee is a very unique and helpful insect. The honey bee, or Apis mellifera, means "honey carrying bee". It is the only insect that provides a food source for humans - honey. Honey is also the only food that contains vitamins, minerals, and water, along with an antioxidant called "pinocembrin" that improves brain functioning. Honey bees also produce about a third of the world 's food supply, and if honey bees died out, many plants, including food crops, would die out.

Bee colonies are starting to stop functioning completely to a disease known as colony collapse disorder. Colony collapse disorder is most likely the effect of pesticides, disease, and environmental problems. When bees are outside of the hive pollinating various plants,