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Many living creatures, including the human race benefit a lot from Honeybees. We reap their honey and set them to work cross-pollinating our crops. Their beeswax makes good candles and furniture polish. It is also a constituent in pharmaceutical and cosmetic products. Propolis, the resins bees gather build their hive, is utilized in medicines for almost anything, from gum disease to different types of burns.

Lately however, honeybee populations around the world have slumped sharply. Overdevelopment and segregation of open space, diseases and mites, misuse of herbicides and pesticides are the chief suspects. From some approximations, the honeybee population has waned by as much as 50%. The total loss of honeybees will be particularly catastrophic for farmers.

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