HARRISON COUNTY, Miss. (WLOX) \u2014 Grand Bear Golf Course is home to more than golf balls flying through the air. Bees fly around boxes placed on the course grounds.<\/p>\n
Grand Bear is the state\u2019s first golf course to become a certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary, meaning the bees have made the course their home.<\/p>\n
Brad Kale, Grand Bear general manager, said the bees were brought to the course to help protect the environment.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was never about selling honey. It was more about bringing something out here that we can be a part of protecting the environment,\u201d Kale said.<\/p>\n
Kale wants to share the course\u2019s bees with South Mississippi. Students from West Wortham Elementary and Middle School were the first invited to the course.<\/p>\n
Students spent the day learning about bees\u2019 role in the ecosystem from one of the course\u2019s beekeepers.<\/p>\n
Philippa Whipps, a fifth-grade student, said she learned about how bees make honey and get their food.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s really cool that we got to learn how they make the honey and how the bees get their food, all the different parts of the bees and their roles. I just think it\u2019s really interesting,\u201d Whipps said.<\/p>\n
Larry Williams, a beekeeper, said honey bees pollinate at least a third of the food supply.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne third of our food is pollinated, if not more, by honey bees. That\u2019s where it starts. Pollination. If we lose sight of that, then what are we going to do after that,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n
Whipps said the day left her feeling inspired to help bees.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel very inspired to help. I didn\u2019t know we could help the bees survive, and I didn\u2019t know they helped our environment so much,\u201d Whipps said.<\/p>\n
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