No bees to pollinate the surface in the EU

Agricultural policies and the use of biofuels has increased the cultivated area in the EU. The bees activity was insufficient to meet 90% of the demands in 22 countries studied.

The decline of pollinators such as bees in Europe has spread concern for sustaining basic pollination services for agriculture. The situation of these sympathetic hymenopterous insects is risk, while it is promoting use of pesticides not aggressive with them, and it has begun to investigate the mode of measuring health in hives.

At the same time, agricultural policies and the use of biofuels in the EU have encouraged substantial growth of acreage that require pollination from insects in the continent.

Using data from 41 European countries, a group of researchers carried out a study published by the journal Plos One that shows that the preferred number of bees needed to provide the pollination of crops in Europe has increased 4.9 times faster than the populations of bees, between 2005 and 2010.