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A third of all US bee colonies did not survive the winter
- jrockway 16y agoTheir extinction would mean not only a colourless, meatless diet of cereals and rice, and cottonless clothes, but a landscape without orchards, allotments and meadows of wildflowers – and the collapse of the food chain that sustains wild birds and animals. Well, we could just pay people five cents an hour to pollinate our crops. We can make iPhones without bees, after all.