Since I use a honey bee all over my site and in my name, I thought it would be appropriate to write about this here.

Honey bees are dying and people aren’t exactly sure why. When I first heard the news, I thought it was sad but didn’t really understand why it was such a big deal.

If honey bees and other pollinating bugs stop pollinating, all flowering plants will die. Our fruits would be gone, not to mention our honey. And when those things are gone, so are many many foods that rely on them—like icecream.

Haagen-dazs has started a campaign to help the honey bees because they have realized how imperative honey bees are to their business.

Helpthehoneybees.com is part of their campaign. It’s an all Flash site full of cute bee animations. A bee follows you around a field full of grass and pollination-dependent plants. Each page has extra little animations. There’s even a “Make & Send a Bee” area to send an email to your friends to let them know what’s going on with honey bees. It’s a pretty slow-loading site (though my connection has been pretty shoddy) but it’s worth the wait. What a great site!