The Appliance Of Science - Documenting pollinator decline
Author(s)
Norman Carreck
Abstract
As IBRA Council Member and regular Bee World contributor, Keith Delaplane, has pointed out (Delaplane, 2009), Albert Einstein didn’t say that: “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live”. Quite apart from the fact that Einstein was a physicist rather than a biologist, the statement is clearly suspect, since it ignores the large number of world staple food crops that are wind pollinated and require neither bees nor other insects.
