An article published in the Gainesville Times explained the role that pollinators like honeybees play in food production. “Without pollinators, we’d find two-thirds of the foods we eat gone. They cannot be produced without the help of insects such as bees, butterflies, and other animals like bats for example,” said the author. “The over-use of pesticides is a real threat to the useful insects,” he continued. “Moreover, when we look to the European Community, we’ll see that they have banned completely the use of insecticides incorporated in the landscape plants people buy. Here in the U.S., we only get a warning label on the plant. Bees don’t read warning labels.”
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Earth Sense: Take care to protect the pollinators