For many agricultural crops, bees play a vital role as pollinators, and this book discusses the interplay among bees, agriculture, and the environment. Although

It is only recently that the immense economic value of pollination to agriculture has been appreciated. At the same time, the alarming collapse in populations o

Pollinators-insects, birds, bats, and other animals that carry pollen from the male to the female parts of flowers for plant reproduction-are an essential part

This book has a wider approach not strictly focused on crop production compared to other books that are strictly oriented towards bees, but has a generalist app

We should thank a pollinator at every meal. These diminutive creatures fertilize a third of the crops we eat. Yet half of the 200,000 species of pollinators are