Bees = Food
The vast majority of commercial fruits and veggies that you buy and eat require European honey bees (Apis mellifera) to pollinate them or they would not be able to produce food.
As such, bees—and especially European honey bees—are essential to the survival of our civilization (at least until we release the bees’ robotic replacements into the wild after we make the real ones extinct). Given the important roles that bees play in our food supply, we think everyone should care enough about them to learn a little bit about how they work, how their populations are doing, what they need to continue to exist, etc.