About three quarters of the crop species grown for human food depend to some degree on animal pollination, and most of that work is done not by managed honeybees but by wild insects whose numbers nobody counts. Honeybees are visible, movable, and easy to study, so they dominate the discussion. Wild bees, hoverflies, and beetles are none of those things. Where researchers have looked carefully, they have usually found the wild insects doing more of the pollinating than the hives brought in for the purpose, and doing it in weather the honeybees will not fly in.
It can be inferred that our knowledge of pollination is shaped mainly by
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The passage explains the honeybee's prominence entirely by ease of observation and says nobody counts the wild insects. That is a claim about what we can measure rather than about what matters, which is the point being made underneath.
Updated: November 2026
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