A few days back at the beginning of September, South Carolina officials were preparing to fight the spread of the Zika virus with an ariel attack of pesticides. What the officials didn't realize however, was that when the pesticide - naled - was dropped from the sky, they weren't only killing the mosquitoes possibly carrying the virus, but millions of honeybees as well.

Now, you may be thinking, "Oh, well, I don't like bee's so that's fine! The less of them the better, right?" They sting me, and they're just a nuisance when they fly around your head and try to fly into your soda on a hot day! Well, not necessarily. Honeybees are some of our worlds greatest pollinators, and they provide a livelihood for a vast majority of the population.

Juanita Stanley, who's a co-owner of Flowerton Bee Farm and Supplies in Summerville, S.C. after the town officials had sprayed the pesticide, “I have millions of bees, and usually you can hear the buzzing and feel the energy, but it was silent,” she said. “It was just devastation; there were piles of dead bees." She also had said that all the bee's within her 46 hives were killed, and it devastated her, and her livelihood.

So with that in mind, what else can a simple honeybee do for you?

With thinking of crops, just in the U.S, they pollinate more than $15 billion dollars worth of crops, that includes your apples, your almonds, your berries, and even your coffee!

Bees also create honey! You know, that delicious gooey substance that you can smear on a bagel or dip apples into, you can even put it in some tea, and it can be used as a respiratory medicine. It soothes your throat just as well as any other OTC cough medicine, and it tastes good as well. It can also be used to heal burns, cuts, and boost your immune system.

Overall, bees are very important to our civilization, they do much more than just fly around, both female (worker bees) and male (drones) bee work their entire lives (1-10 months for the workers) and (40 days for the drone bees) the females, to keep the hive in order along with pollinating flowers, finding food, while the males are in charge of mating with the queen to continue the population of the colony, and their hive.

We as a culture need to realize that the some of things that we do will eventually have major repercussions if we continuously destroy certain areas, and kill populations of insects and animals alike, because eventually, it'll be too late, and we wont be able to go back.