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NIFA-Funded Research Aims to Keep Bees on the Job

July 17, 2018 Mary Purcell-Miramontes and Scott Elliott, National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Bee populations in North America have been in decline since the 1940s. This is of great concern to the agriculture industry because about 75 percent of specialty crops depend on the services of pollinators – of which bees are the most economically important.

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