Studies find wild bees and insects essential to food security

Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 09:31 in Mathematics & Economics

Wild pollinators – primarily wild bees, flies, and other insects – are at least as important, and often more efficient, at pollinating agricultural crops than domestic honey bee colonies, according to two new studies published in Science and the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences.

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