Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
We usually think of bees only for their honey. In truth they provide a far bigger service: they let most flowering plants reproduce. That service is worth hundreds of billions of dollars every year.
Over the past few decades, these essential insects have been vanishing at a worrying speed. Understanding their role, and the causes of their decline, makes clear how directly our future food supply is at stake.
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- 2Pollination, quiet work that is essential
- 3Why colonies collapse
- 4There is more than one kind of bee
- 5What we can still change
Open-book quiz8 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary10 terms explained in a tap.
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