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Wild bees are rapidly shrinking due to global warming

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Wild bees are rapidly shrinking due to global warming

Bees in a well-preserved Spanish wilderness weigh less than they did decades ago, possibly because rising temperatures are affecting their development and food

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Environment

Cutting pesticide use on farms doubles abundance of wild pollinators

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A honey bee visits a white sage plant. Researchers have shown that pollination by honey bees, which are not native to the Americas, produces offspring of considerably inferior quality (lower fitness) than offspring resulting from native pollinators.

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Plants pollinated by non-native honeybees are less likely to survive

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Genetically engineered gut bacterium could protect bees from parasite

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Genetically engineered gut bacterium could protect bees from parasite

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A bee with the sensor attached

Technology

Tiny backpack for bees can track their position and temperature

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Life

Electromagnetic fields from power lines are messing with honeybees

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Life

The spiky shape of sunflower pollen may clear bee guts of parasite

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A green orchid bee

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Male orchid bees craft unique perfumes from flowers – now we know why

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Honeybees benefit from strips of native plants embedded in farmland

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A beekeeper tends to a honeybee hive

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Rise in urban beekeeping may be crowding out native bee species

In Montreal, Canada, the diversity of wild bee species has fallen in areas where honeybee colonies have proliferated

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Health

Shortage of pollinators could be killing 427,000 people a year

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Life

A surprising number of African animals eat beeswax

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Honeybees are living half as long as they were 50 years ago

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Life

Bumblebees rolling wooden balls may be first evidence of insect play

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