Pollinators such as wild bees and the Western honeybee, Apis mellifera, are important to humans and nature. Seventy-five percent of food crops and 90% of wild flowering plants benefit from animal pollinators (IPBES 2016).
Judith Aerseth Tunstad, “How to Bee in Maine,” College of the Atlantic, accessed April 26, 2024, https://coa.digitalarchive.us/items/show/1065.Item 2039
