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beneficial insects article in
for you that tops them all.
It is easy to add a beehive to your yard,
though admittedly, your neighbors
might not all be thrilled if they knew. So
you may have to consider painting the
hive in camouflage.
Einstein once postulated that if the
bees died, we’d starve in 10 years.
Pollination by bees is estimated to affect
as much as one-third of our food supply.
We not only eat fruits, vegetables and
some grains that are produced through
pollination, but the livestock and
poultry that we eat are also fed by these
foods that are related to pollination. For
example, clover needs to be pollinated
to produce seed to grow new clover.
Cows eat clover.
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