Why are bees important?

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Bees are important, right? That seems to be the general consensus. But is it true? And should you still care even if you don’t eat honey. Phil argues that the answer is ‘yes’ and presents his top five reasons that explain just why bees are so important.
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"Honeybee-cooling cropped" by Björn Appel, Username Warden. Edit by Waugsberg (cropped) - Own work at Wikipedia.org
“Beehives at an organic farm” by Jessica Reeder at Wikimedia.org
“Hall of Biodiversity, American Museum of Natural History” by InSapphoWeTrust at flickr.com
“Day 120 - West Midlands Police - Response Officer on duty” by West Midlands Police at flickr.com
“How can you train honeybees to sniff for bombs?” by Los Alamos National Laboratory at howstuffworks.com
“Parallel cloud bands converge at the horizon over a landscape of ice floes, melt pools, and a polynya to the right. August 19, 2009” by Dr. Pablo Clemente-Colon at fotopedia.com
“Male bumblebee (Bombus hypnorum) on a finger, Sandy, Bedfordshire” by Orangeaurochs at Wikimedia.org