Since the 1980s, beekeepers and observers of nature have been noticing that bees are disappearing, particularly in Europe and the United States. The phenomenon reached a peak during the winter of 2006–2007, when one quarter of all domesticated honey bees in the US died out, according to a report from the US Congress.
Scientific experts blame a combination of stress factors, including climate change, the use of neurotoxic insecticides, viral and fungal infections, and lack of genetic diversity among domestic bee populations.
Thanks to pollinators such as insects, birds and bats, the world’s flowering plants are able to reproduce and bear fruit. Bees are among the most active pollinators, alone responsible for as much as 70–80% of reproduction in the plant world, according to a study by the France’s national institute for agricultural research, INRA. Their disappearance would put the survival of wild plants and commercial crops at risk.
30.4. Граматика. Повторення підрядних речень
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During your holidays, ___ you go somewhere with your friends, you usually take a lot of things with you. Though, your holiday suitcase is never big enough, is it? And there isn’t a place ___ you can put bulky items like a sleeping bag. Well, there is a simple solution: take a rope or a scotch and attach it to your suitcase.
On holiday you put all the clothes ___ you have worn into old bags before you take them home. And when you get home, your brother says “___ T-shirt is this, yours or mine?” Correct? Well, here are some attractive bags ___ come in different sizes for different clothes.
There are people ___ like to read late at night on holiday and there are other people ___ want to go to sleep. Here is the answer. It’s a little reading light ___ you put behind the book while you are reading.
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1. Tell me ___ you want and I will try to help you. 2. Why do you blame me for everything ___ goes wrong in our group? 3. Maria is the only person ___ understands me. 4. Why do you always disagree with anything ___ I say? 5. She gives her children everything ___ they want. 6. This is an awful film. It’s the worst one ___ I’ve ever seen. 7. I won’t be able to do very much but I’ll do the best ___ I can. 8. Nobody knows ___ kind of work is being carried out in that laboratory.