Great article about the importance of pollination and pollinators to the planet.
We are all about the pollinators!
The wild bee, as well as the farmed variety known as the honeybee, are among the most prolific pollinators on the planet. Their work is vital in the maintenance of flowering plants, crops, and our entire ecosystem. In fact, about a third of the food we eat depends on bee pollination one way or another. The United Nations has recently estimated insect pollination worldwide to have a value of about US$150 billion(RM588 billion). Industrialised and technologically advanced farming could never catch up with the pollinating effort of bumblebees.
Quite the opposite of technology-supported farming is happening in China these days…Farmers are forced to pollinate their trees by hand, wearing pots of pollen around their necks and painting every flower individually with a large feathery brush. What might yield some results for this high-value crop is a totally futile exercise on a worldwide scale.
