New infectious diseases among bees threaten world’s economies
More than 75% of food crops, fruits, and flowering plants need bees, wasps, beetles, flies, moths, and butterflies to yield successful harvests
A significant chunk of the world’s agricultural productivity and nutritional security relies on small insect pollinators. More than 75% of food crops, fruits, and flowering plants need bees, wasps, beetles, flies, moths, and butterflies to yield successful harvests.
This is why threats to insect pollinators, including pesticides, pollution, and climate change, endanger the economies of entire countries. A new actor on this list is infectious diseases made worse by habitat loss.
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