Bee decline threatens US crop production

Bee decline threatens US crop production Burlington VT (SPX) Feb 22, 2017 - The first-ever study to map U.S. wild bees suggests they are disappearing in the country's most important farmlands - from California's Central Valley to the Midwest's corn belt and the Mississippi River valley. If wild bee declines continue, it could hurt U.S. crop production and farmers' costs, said Taylor Ricketts, a conservation ecologist at the University of Vermont, at the American A ... morehttp://www.seeddaily.com/reports/Bee_decline_threatens_US_crop_production_999.html