Ma Earth @maearth.com · 19d Bees pollinate roughly 75% of the world’s flowering plants. Without them, much of what we eat and drink — fruit, coffee, almonds, and more — simply wouldn’t exist.
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Most plants rely on the collaboration of pollinators to flower, fruit, and reproduce. Yet industrial agriculture’s intensive use of pesticides is collapsing this critical cycle, hitting native bees the hardest. In areas with heavy pesticide use, bee populations have dropped by as much as 43%.