The Kiwanis Ohio District Governor was at Tuesday's family meeting inducting new members into the Lima Kiwanis Club and also spoke about her Bee a Hero Project. With the rate at which bees have been dying, she is encouraging clubs and others to create pollinator habitats to allow bees to thrive so they can pollinate our food sources. But it's more than just planting native plants that needs to be done to protect the bees.

LIMA, OH (WLIO) - They were all a buzz at the last Brown Bag Series of the season at the Allen County Children's Garden Tuesday afternoon. It was all about bees—honeybees, to be exact.  Did you know that 80% of food is pollinated by managed honeybees? Honey is the only food that contains all the essential nutrients to sustain life, and one hive can make 20 to 60 pounds of honey per year. There are three types of honey bees: the drone, the worker, and the queen. All are essential parts of a successful hive. As gardeners, we can also support the honey bees.

Each day we are losing more and more friends to flowers like these, as well as fruits and vegetables, I am not talking about people with green thumbs, but the honey bee. Mike Doseck and members of the Ohio State and Grand Lake Beekeepers Associations come to the Auglaize County Fair to spread the word about their hobby, in hopes to inform the public the important role that the honey bee has to our daily lives and the dangers they face.

When you hear that buzz, you may want to run - but most bees aren't out to sting you, they're just doing their job.