The only blog I visit daily and admire enormously is The Big Picture by Barry Ritholtz. Granted, if all you know about investing is that the Social Security Administration has your retirement covered, then this blog may be a little over your head.  But if you have any money at all and hope to hold on to it, you should be interested in what Barry has to say. I subscribe to Barrons, a investment weekly.  I pay dearly for this rag which regularly quotes what Barry says in his blog for free.  If you watch MSNBC or Bloomberg or read the WSJ or the Washington Post, you will have seen Barry as a regular guest expert.

Let me state this more succinctly. The Big Picture blog is one of the last free places on the Internet where shit does not float to the top.

The reason for this is because Mr. Ritholtz has genuine expertise in the thing he writes about. He is not a writer of investing but an investor who writes.  In addition to investment topics, in which Mr. Ritholtz has personal experience and expertise, he inserts articles of which he has an interest or passion. And that is how I found the following graphic.

This graphic was developed by a Montreal company, FFunction.  They have a bunch of other beautiful visualizations at their website. This company specializes in creating web-based visual interfaces that help people understand complex information. I am using it here with the permission of the company’s founder, Sébastien Pierre. What surprised me most was the actual breakdown of what percentage of pollination in major crops depend on honey bees.  Click on the half-resolution, partial image below to see the very informative and ginormous graphic.