Decline of Species That Pollinate Poses a Threat to Global Food Supply, Report Warns
By JOHN SCHWARTZ FEB. 26, 2016 Photo Credit Adrees Latif/Reuters Beekeepers using a smoker to calm colonies before transferring them to another crop near Columbia Falls, Me. Plants that depend on pollination make up 35 percent of global crop production volume with a value of as much as $577 billion a year. The birds and the bees need help. Also, the butterflies, moths, wasps, beetles…