“Bees in the rare Melittidae family, which provide us with blueberries, cranberries, and orchids, have plummeted by as much as 41 percent.”
Citizen scientists are logging more bee sightings than ever, and they keep finding fewer species. Farms lean on one managed honeybee to pollinate everything. The US lost about half its honeybees in a 2006 outbreak. Betting the food supply on a single species is the kind of risk nobody would accept in a server farm.