In the past decade, the world’s honeybee population has been decreasing at an alarming and unprecedented rate. While this is obviously bad news for honey-lovers everywhere, the disappearance of bees has a larger effect. Bees help feed the world’s population in a bigger way — by pollinating our crops. In this TED-Ed blog series, we pair short, informative TED-Ed Lessons with longer, more in-depth TED Talks on the same subject. Today we ask the question: What’s happening to our world’s bees?