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The widespread death of honeybees has some farmers fretting.

Because if honeybees disappear, who will pollinate their crops?

Almost any kind of insect you can think of.

Margie Mayfield, an ecologist at the University of Queensland in Australia.

Globally speaking, flies are probably the second largest group of crop pollinators.

In particular, a group called hoverflies or surfed flies.

And these are these sort of large-eyed flies that if you take a hike, you sometimes see them hovering in front of your face.

Along with hoverflies, the army of underappreciated

pollinators includes butterflies, moths, beetles, ants, and wasps. Mayfield and her colleagues

analyzed more than three dozen studies on pollination, covering 17 crop plants grown on five continents.

And they found that some of these underdog insects accounted for some 40% of the flower

visits. And some of the crops in their review, especially tropical ones like mangoes and

custard apples, did not rely on honeybees at all. Even commodities like canola did fine without the

bees. The meta-analysis is in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Mayfield says part of the difficulty engaging the importance of bees starts with the research methods.

A third of the studies they initially considered, for example, ignored everything but bees.

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