Tag: honey bees

• Friday, January 10th 2014 - 06:11 UTC

  Europe short of bees to pollinate crops, warns report from Reading university

  

  Europe needs an extra seven billion bees to pollinate its crops, with Britain in the poor position of having less than a quarter of the honeybees it requires. The demand for insect pollination across Europe is outpacing the growth of honeybee colonies as farmers grow more oil-bearing crops like oilseed rape and sunflowers, and also fruit.