Month: January 2019

https://www.wired.com/2014/05/will-we-still-have-fruit-if-bees-die-off/ Article courtesy of Wired.com A PHOTO HAS been circulating for a while that suggests our grocery stores will look like this in a world without bees. Is that true? Will our food choices be radically limited, come the future Beepocalypse? We already know what raising fruit without honey bees looks…

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/113/1/146.full.pdf Romina Rader, et al, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America Many of the world’s crops are pollinated by insects, and bees are often assumed to be the most important pollinators. To our knowledge, our study is the first quantitative evaluation of the…