Agriculture's dependence on pollinators, including both wild and domesticated bees, has increased fourfold since the 1960s. A recent study of these pollinators found that they provide up to $577 billion a year of crops, half of which comes from wild pollinators. These ratios underline the severity of their collapsing numbers. More than a third are facing extinction.
Gemma Cranston, head of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership team that participated in the study, warned that "less than half the companies sampled know which of the raw materials they source depend on pollinators", adding that there needs to be more research to get the full picture.
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Plight of the bees hits unaware businesses
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday April 18 2018, @03:23AM
I'm rather certain that insecticides are a major part of the problem, but do remember that different insecticides affect different insects differently. This one *apparently* affects mites but not bees. Perhaps.
The problem comes with multi-drug interactions...which it's really difficult to avoid, since bees don't just sit around in one place.
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