What's the Buzz?

I subscribe to the David Suzuki Foundation's "science matters" newsletter and here is an excerpt from today's article on bees. Found it noteworthy as we often forget that much of what we eat needs these important insects but that they have been slowly disappearing and it threatens food production at a time when we need to be finding better ways to ensure we can meet this basic need.


Bees are endlessly intriguing, and incredibly useful to us — and not just for honey and wax. If bees disappeared, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to grow much of what we eat. Bees pollinate crops ranging from apples to zucchini. Blueberries and almonds are almost entirely dependent on them. Some experts say they're responsible for one of every three bites of food we eat. The economic value of pollination services from honeybees alone is estimated at $14 billion in the U.S. and hundreds of millions in Canada.

For the full article, go to the Blogs section of the Foundation's website.