Nous savions déjà que les plantes sont fécondées a 80% par nos butineuses, à 90% par elles et les bourdons, le vent faisant le reste. Et Einstein, le grand Einstein, a calculé que si toutes les abeilles du monde étaient exterminées, il ne faudrait pas plus de quatre ans à l'homme pour disparaître du globe.

En effet, sans elles plus de fruits, plus de graines, plus de plantes, plus d'animaux herbivores et carnivores. Et par conséquent la famine ne tarderait pas a s'installer sur notre machine ronde.

Alin CAILLAS,
Giens (Var, France)

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We already knew that plants are fertilized 80% by our foragers, 90% by them and bumblebees, the wind does the rest. And Einstein, the great Einstein, has calculated that if all the bees in the world were exterminated, it should not be more than four years for man to disappear from the globe.

Indeed, without them also fruit, also seeds, also plants, also herbivorous and carnivorous animals. And consequently famine would soon have to settle on our round machine.

Alin CAILLAS,
Giens (Var, France)

So, the well known author Alin Caillas evidently got this into print in 1965, but where he heard it ...

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