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inetknght[dead post] ◴[] No.44434412[source]
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pfdietz ◴[] No.44434454[source]
All the major staple crops are wind pollinated, not insect pollinated.

The ultimate solution to this problem will be going back to a suite of native pollinators rather than depending on non-native honeybees.

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snarf21 ◴[] No.44434547[source]
While fruits, vegetables and nuts can be pollinated by wind, that won't work at the scale and yields that our aggro-industrial complex needs. If it weren't required, almond growers wouldn't pay to have millions of hives transported to California each year to pollinate their trees.
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1. pfdietz ◴[] No.44434568[source]
I said staple crops (which is relevant when someone is claiming that "bees die" implies "we all starve"). It would be very sad to not have insect pollinated crops, but it wouldn't be an existential disaster.