But it’s not just the fruit and vegetables that we eat that have been pollinated by the bees it’s also the food that we feed to animals, which we in turn eat, that has been pollinated in a ...

So my honeybees are working for me, and making it possible for me to grow the food that people want. The bananas play a part, too. They don’t need bees for pollination. Bananas produce high ...

Almost 90% of wild plants and 75% of leading global crops depend on animal pollination. One out of every three mouthfuls of our food depends on pollinators such as bees. Crops that depend on ...

It’s not just plants that need bees; we need them too. Without them we’d have very little food. Lots of our fruit and vegetables come from plants that are pollinated by bees.

The study found "winners" and "losers" among hundreds of wild bees and hoverflies, which pollinate food crops and other plants. Common species are winning out at the expense of rarer ones ...

Bees and other pollinators ... reliance on toxic chemicals can facilitate increased pollination. This approach can improve food quality and quantity, benefiting both human populations and the ...

Interactions with pollinators are thought to be one of the main selective forces underlying the origin of floral diversity. Species of Iochrominae are pollinated by a wide range of animals, including ...

About 75% of the world's crops depend on pollination by bees, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports. In just three years, 193 weed killers and pesticides containing ...