Wednesday 24 June 2015

Surprisingly few 'busy bees' make global crops grow

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Surprisingly few 'busy bees' make global crops grow
Burlington VT (SPX) Jun 22, 2015 - A major international study finds that surprisingly few bee species are responsible for pollinating the world's crops. The paper, published in Nature Communications, suggests that only two percent of wild bee species pollinate 80 percent of bee-pollinated crops worldwide. The study is one of the largest on bee pollination to date. While agricultural development and pesticides have been sho ... more


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