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The Bees
Pollination Value
More than one-third of our food supply is attributed by honeybee pollination. Staplefoods are shown in the graph on the right. One bee colony alone can pollinate over 300 million plants a day. Commercial bees in combination with wild bees account for 80% of pollination for all United States crops.
Economic Value
Crops pollinated by bees can gross up to $15 billion annually and there are many industries involved in the process. Biotechincal industries for example attribute to the pesticides used to produce blemish free crops.
The chart above shows what percentage of pollination is attributed by honeybees alone.
How a Grocery Market Will Look...
A visual experiment was conducted at a Whole Foods Market to help show the loss in variety when bees do not exist in the picture anymore. Clearly, less than half of the selection will be left for consumers after bees are completely extinct.
