Abstract:

Honey bees were the main pollinators in the natural world and they played an important role in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem balance. Honey bees had large ecological and economic values in crops pollination. In this paper, we reviewed the global crops pollinated by honey bees as follows: the role of honey bees in ecosystem, the position of honey bees pollination in global agricultural production, the overview of honey bees pollination in developed countries, the trends of different crops cultivated in the world, the number change of global honey bee colonies. At last, we analyzed the status, the problems and the solutions of honey bees’ pollination for crops in China.