These Photos Capture The Startling Effect Of Shrinking Bee Populations

These Photos Capture The Startling Effect Of Shrinking Bee Populations

In rural China, humans pollinate flowers by hand.

 07/04/2016 16:07 BST

• Casey WilliamsEditorial Fellow, The Huffington Post

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A Chinese farmer pollinates a pear tree by hand in Hanyuan County, Sichuan province, China.

In parts of rural China, humans are doing the work bees once did. 

Striking new photos show farm workers in Hanyuan county, in China's Sichuan province, painstakingly applying pollen to flowers by hand.