Biowatch: the sixth animal extinction

Some of the lesser known background effects of anthropic impact on Earth, with as many as half of the known plant and animal species predicted to be extinct by 2100:
Animal Extinction
Some of it may mean little to most of us - many of the endangered species are something I will never meet or feel the absence of... Or so I thought... But then fit this in:
The disappearance of bees
I never knew that in the US 1/3 of our diet comes from insect-pollinated crops, and the honeybee is responsible for 80% of that pollination and that even cattle (feeding on alfalfa), depend on bees. And this is not just a gradual process, but a rapid bee pandemic. And we are not even talking extinction here.