> It is likely true that it has never been proven that lack of bees would threaten the food supply, but personally I would rather not wait and find out the hard way. 

OK, let's turn it around and look at it from the other direction. What would cause all of the pollinators to perish? Nothing short of a nuclear war or a meteor hitting the Earth. If either of those happens, most of us will be dead in any case, and those left alive can eat government canned rations till they run out of them. Hope they have honey to go on the stale crackers!

PLB

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