While important, it is no more important that those living entities that consume rotting material from dead biota. Without them, we would be buried in rotting waste and the bee would be absolutely useless.

I love honey bees, bumblebees, wasps, hornets ALL pollinators. Baldfaced hornets will build their paper nests in a thicken on a honeybee route and they will snatch honeybees coming and going from the hive. A friend kept honeybee hives on my property and one day I spotted the hornet nest hidden in the brush, I watched to make sure and yep honeybees were on their diet. These hornets are great for eating flies and other insects but I draw the line at honeybees so I destroyed the hornet nest.
Besides pollinating the local raw honey is WONderful!!!!

Save the Bees !

Yes. I have a cactus that only blooms in the morning & then the bloom dies. I love watching the bees enjoy a great breakfast.

I want them nearby, even though we have Africanized wild bees here.

To be clear, we would survive a bee apocalypse. It wouldn't be fun, but our staple diets are pollinated by the wind. Plants have lots of ways to do the nasty.

We would stand to see a lot of our produce go extinct, except we'd just hand-pollinate. The end result is that prices on these foods skyrocket and become more of a luxury than they already are.

I don't want the bees to go, they're pretty awesome, but it is a myth we would perish without them.