Once there was a bee named Bella. She was the hardest working bee in her hive. She went from flower to flower collecting pollen and returning it to her hive. One sunny day Bella went to a new garden that had beautiful flowers. This was a girl's garden and her name was Sami. Sami hated bees! And she always killed every bee she saw. Her mother had tried to tell her she needed them. Sami wouldn't listen to her.

When Sami saw Bella she tried to hit and kill her. But, Bella yelled, "No, bees can help your garden!" Sami for some reason stopped to listen.

Bella said, "Bees make honey and make it by getting pollen from flowers. This helps the flowers to grow. For instance if bees were not here, fruits and flowers would not grow. We also make wax so we can store our honey. This people take and put into other things you can buy. Please don't kill us!"

Sami felt different now because her Mom had never told her just why bees were so helpful to a garden.

Bella also told Sami that bees just sting you when you bother them. So leave them alone. Then she asked, "Do you know that there are all kinds of honey, depending on what we pollinate? Some of the things are: sage, pumpkins, flowers, and citrus trees." Sami thought bees only made one kind of honey. Wow! What a tasty thought.

Bella also told Sami that bees only live 45 days unless someone kills them. So they must work fast.

After that Sami felt different about bees and realized how important they are. So she decided she wanted to help bees to make their new homes. She never bothered or killed another bee from that day on.

Sami had learned so much about bees that she invited Bella's whole family to come live in her garden. Now they pollinate her flowers and they grow to be beautiful. With all her new knowledge Sami also collects the honey from the bees.

Sami and her friends always tell everyone about bees. They even formed a club to protect them.

One of the most important lessons Sami learned from Bella was that bees pollinate and make things grow better. Without bees, flowers and plants would not be able to continue their natural cycle and we wouldn't have flowers, plants or honey. Sami's garden is really a honey of a garden now.