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Saving honey bees

In the United States, more than one-third of all crop production – 90 crops ranging from nuts to berries to flowering vegetables - requires insect pollination. Managed honey bee colonies are our primary pollinators, adding at least $15 billion a year by increasing yields and helping to ensure superior-quality harvests.

What is killing the bees?
Increased losses due to the invasive varroa mite (a pest of honey bees). New or emerging diseases such as Israeli Acute Paralysis virus and the gut parasite Nosema. Pesticide poisoning through exposure to pesticides applied to crops or for in-hive insect or mite control.

How did bees do in 2021?
Beekeepers across the United States lost 45.5% of their managed honey bee colonies from April 2020 to April 2021, according to preliminary results of the 15th annual nationwide survey conducted by the nonprofit Bee Informed Partnership.

Bee10Coffee supports honey bees by using 10% of net profits to:

- Educate students about the importance of honey bees.
- Training and mentoring prospective beekeepers.
- Saving honey bees from unwanted locations
- Honey bee research, on disease, nutrition, and beekeeping procedures
- Planting projects of pollinator friendly plants.
- Foster genetic diversity
- Pollination of commercial crops
- Supporting beekeepers