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Bees are important to our food supply because bees help keep plants alive by pollination. Pollination helps plants reproduce and also causes them to produce fruits, vegetables, and grains. Without bees plants would not produce the things we need to make our food products or fibers like cotton. Bees are very important because they are a big role in everyday things even if you don’t realize it.
Some things that I think are the reason for bees dying are things like car exhaust, habitat destruction, and pesticides. Things like this are getting worse everyday and will not stop unless we do something about it. People don’t think about little things like bees because they don’t realize how important they really are and how big of a role they play

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