Quote of the Week - Pollinators are vital for food security.

Researchers at Canadian and American universities said that bumblebee populations are shrinking from the south and are not gaining the same area to the north, unlike what other smaller-scale research has concluded.

“Pollinators are vital for food security and our economy, and widespread losses due to climate change will diminish both,” Jeremy Kerr, the lead researcher and a biology professor at the University of Ottawa, said in a statement.

“We need to figure out how we can improve the outlook for pollinators on continental scales,” he said.  “But the most important thing we can do is begin to take serious action to reduce the rate of climate change.”

Read original article at 2015 SkS Weekly Digest #28