There are many insects and birds we depend on as pollinators in our environment. Honey bees are one well-known pollinator insects. Honey bees often get a bad name by people associating stings with them, along with the misconception that they are thought to be aggressive.
People who are unfamiliar with honey bees usually group them with other types of bees like bumblebees, yellow jackets and wasps. Honey bees are different from other types of bees in that they can produce larger amounts of honey and are social insects that function together as a colony. Within a colony, each honey bee has a job or makes a contribution to that colony.
the storm then cut a line of devastation through georgia, tennessee, kentucky, and virginia. in less than an hour, president obama is expected to give a briefing on the storm. he ll head to alabama tomorrow to see the damage firsthand. and so far the president has sent fema director craig fugate to alabama to assess the damage. the cleanup will be massive. this is the deadliest outbreak of tornadoes since 1974. i m joined live from tuscaloosa, one of the city that is seems to be leveled by this tornado. and again we see another picture of the damage behind you. reporter: well, when you mentioned that craig fugate is going to come here, this is what he s going to get a sample of. this is the amount of devastation he will witness. this entire block, and we re about a half mile away from the university of alabama, was completely wiped out. take a look over here. this is the home of 22-year-old angela smith. she and her husband got married just a few days ago. four days ago, an
she says that when this storm rolled through, she hid in the closet with her dog and prayed for her life. as she was doing that, the roof came off her house and just completely destroyed it. just down the street, if you can take a look further down there, you ll probably see one, two, three homes and then you will see an empty space. neighbors are telling us that three college students who went to the university of alabama died there last night when that storm came through and basically picked up the house and slammed it across the street into the house across the street, and you will see that going through here all down the street here as well. take a look at the trees. they are just toppled over on top of homes and cars. jessica strickland, who is a good friend of the three people, said that in just a few hours her life has now just been turned upside down. she came here today to take a look at the damage and we were, unfortunately, meeting her at the worst part of her life at this p