The extinction of bees (and coffee)

A new danger threatens the future of coffee: the disappearance of bees. Although it seems to be a lie, the flying insects are in extinction. And without pollination, the world would go through a food crisis (reminder: pollination is the process by which pollen grains travel from the male sexual organ of a flower to the female sexual organ of the same or another, that is, the way plants are fertilized). Flowers, fruits and seeds are in danger of reducing their production due to the lack of pollen-carrying agents, such as bees. The lack of this process could leave the population without coffee, but also without beans, chili, tomato, pumpkin, plum, mango, apple, guava, vanilla, cocoa, tequila or mezcal, among other products. Why are bees disappearing? For many reasons, but the main ones are the deterioration and loss of their habitats, the diseases and parasites that directly affect them, the dumping of toxic substances into the environment, such as pesticides and insecticides used in industrialized agriculture, and widespread climate change.