Sentences with phrase «pollination of agricultural crops»

And honeybees, or Apis mellifera, are big business: Bee pollination of agricultural crops — everything from almonds to apples to carrots — provides one - third of the U.S. diet, and the bees» services are valued at $ 15 billion annually.

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According to recent studies, declines in wild and managed bee populations threaten the pollination of flowers in more than 85 percent of flowering plants and 75 percent of agricultural crops worldwide.

Dropping populations of wild bees in agricultural areas could affect crop pollination and result in higher costs for farmers, researchers report December 21 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The contribution of forest ecosystems — such as carbon sequestration, crop pollination, conservation of agricultural soils and control of water discharge to streams and rivers — to other sectors, particularly agriculture, is valued at 6.77 percent of Ethiopia's GDP.

Pollination by animals is directly responsible for between five and eight percent of agricultural production worldwide, or as much as $ 577 billion worth of crops, by one estimate.