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bees, honeybees, and other pollinators

Posted by Baldur on Sunday, September 21 2014 at 8:17:08PM
In reply to It's an interesting shape, honest! posted by jd420 on Sunday, September 21 2014 at 06:50:24AM

"Well, there's a couple factors - including whether bees' effects from the cretacean end of the timewar wipe them out."

No one should be too anxious about the possibility of honeybees going extinct. Yes, it would be a shame and I'm all in favor of taking actions to prevent it, but most of our crops do not require pollinators at all, and those that do can use other types of bees that are not suffering from colony collapse disorder. Honeybees are not even native to the New World.

I can't vouch for every detail at this page, but the general point is correct - most crops do not require honeybees:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/kaz-vorpal/list-of-crops-that-dont-need-honeybees/10151447302312854

Heck, pawpaws are usually pollinated by carrion beetles and blowflies, but sometimes fruit flies and other insects. (Pawpaws aren't on the list.)







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