By Ian Simpson reports:
Honey bees, which play a key role in pollinating a wide variety of food crops, are in sharp decline in the United States, due to parasites, disease and pesticides, said a federal report released on Thursday……..
Honey bee colonies have been dying and the number of colonies has more than halved since 1947, said the report by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Agriculture Department.
Read more at As honey bee population dwindles, U.S. sees threat to food supply | Thomson Reuters Foundation.