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There are fewer bees, but crops have not fallen

15.02.2009

An international group of biologists and agronomists notes that, despite the decline in the number of bees and other pollinating insects, crop yields increased by 1961 percent annually between 2007 and XNUMX.

The decline in the number of crop pollinators is due to the spread of insecticides and the destruction of natural habitats for wild bees, bumblebees and other beneficial insects. In recent years, honey bees have also suffered from a disease caused by parasitic mites - varroatosis.

In world agricultural production, crops dependent on insect pollination are believed to account for 35% of the crop. The fact that, despite the extinction of these insects, crops are growing, according to the authors of the study, is explained by the success of genetics and breeding and the expansion of arable areas.

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