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Conservation ‘Honeybees are voracious’: Is it time to put the brakes on the boom in beekeeping? (The Guardian) There is growing concern from scientists and experienced beekeepers that the vast numbers of honey bees, combined with a lack of pollinator-friendly spaces, could be je…
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Conservation This butterfly is the first U.S. insect known to go extinct because of people (Science News) The Xerces blue butterfly used to live only o…
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Conservation Midwest bumble bees declined with more farmed land, less diverse crops since 1870 (University of Wisconsin-Madison) As farmers cultivated …
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Conservation Good food in a nice setting: Wild bees need diverse agricultural landscapes (ScienceDaily, University of Göttingen) Mass-flowering crops s…
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Conservation Early land clearance helped Fijian pollinators (EurekAlert, Flinders University) After centuries of human impact on the world’s ecosystems…
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Conservation First mainland records of an unusual island bee (Twitter, Michael Orr @mc_orr) “Intrepid community scientists braved COVID19 to document n…
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Conservation Glyphosate pesticides persist for years in wild plants and cause flower infertility (EurekAlert, Frontiers) Researchers show for first tim…
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Conservation New colony of a rare stingless bee, once presumed absent from California, found by a four-year-old in palo alto (Bay Nature) Four-year-old…
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