So it turns out that bees like cannabis.
Bees pollinate 80% of flowering crops for human consumption, thus forming a key component of the food chain but climate change and pesticide use has brought honeybees to the brink of extinction.
Losing the bees would have a devastating effect across all ecosystems however, recent studies show that declining bee populations may actually be saved by marijuana farming.
Bees have been found to be attracted to large swaths of hemp plants with the tallest plants being preferred.
While bees do not have cannabinoid receptors, and cannot get high, they are attracted to the sweet smelling, male hemp pollens. The reasons for this are still unknown.
With the increase of cannabis/hemp cultivation, it is hoped that the greater attraction of bees
will help to sustain agroecosystem-wide pollination services for other crops in the landscape.
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