Isaacs and collaborators map US wild bees documenting decreases
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EmailThe first national study to map U.S. wild bees suggests they’re disappearing in many of the country’s most-important farmlands
The first national study to map U.S. wild bees suggests they’re disappearing in many of the country’s most-important farmlands. If losses of these crucial pollinators continue, the new nationwide assessment indicates that farmers will face increasing costs – and that the problem may even destabilize the nation’s crop production, said Michigan State University’s Rufus Isaacs, co-author and leader of the Integrated Crop Pollination Project, a USDA-funded effort that supported the new research. The findings were published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Read more at MSU Today: Wild Bee Decline Threatens U.S. Crop Production. Listen to a recent WKAR interview with Isaacs: Plight of the bumblebee: MSU entomologist on decline of wild bees.
