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[pasto76]

24. yeah this is not exactly accurate

only modern industrial agriculture is reliant on european honeybees. The vast, immense swaths of monoculture prevent any of the -hundreds- of other species of pollinators from living anywhere among crops except along the edges.

not to mention the piling evidence of the neonicotinoid pesticides being particularly lethal to honey bees.

something as simple as having one acre, say, per 6-10 acres, go 'wild' with native plants and/or other pollinator attractors (queen annes lace is 'invasive' but the pollinators LOVE them) could assuage the effect of honeybee colony collapse.

so heres a test. if you dont know that picture is a european honeybee, you definitely need to read up on pollinators. If you dont know that bumblebees are NOT the same species, but a _native_ , solitary bee, you really should read up on pollinators.

if you dont know that there are hundreds of native bee species, and that some dont even look like bees, you should check it out. Not to mention all the beetles, butterflies and moths, and insects otherwise that are natural pollinators.

The european honeybee is only a crucial link, if we rely on industrial agriculture.

Just another reason to buy small and buy local. check this one out

http://www.xerces.org/