In the Sichuan province of China, there is an abundance of orchards but no bees. Thousands of people are hired to climb fruit trees and hand-pollinate the flowers with small brushes because natural pollinators like bees have been killed by pesticides

Jed Fuhrman, holder of the McCulloch-Crosby Chair in Marine Biology at USC College
#bees  #china  #biodiversity  #agriculture  #future  #climate change  #crops  #pesticides  #pollution  
∞  02/11/12 at 04:46am via uscnews.usc.edu
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