Australian Tomato Farmers Banned From Hiring Immigrant Bees

A third of the food we eat relies, directly or indirectly, on insect pollination and the vast majority is dutifully carried out by wild European honey bees. Even milk production depends on bees, because cows eat alfalfa and bees pollinate alfalfa seeds. However, this year the bees haven’t shown up in Australia and commercial hydroponic [...]