where we have donated meals to foot pantries for humans and donated supplies to animal shelters and now we re donating the bee pollen to the farmers here. can t forget the bottom of the food chain. what helps get all of the other food to the table as well. but even if the bees recover, the whole business depends on the health of the almond crop there california, now shrinking under mega drought. if the drought takes out the almond drop in california. the whole bee keeping industry is in trouble. and there is no feral bees. wild bees can t survive on their own. reporter: he explains that pesticides and development and invasive pests have plemade it impossible for bees to survive without deliberate human care. and if all the beekeepers released all of their bees, every bee keeper in the country and released them into the wild, we estimate about two to three years before bees would just collapse. bees are the most important