Smithsonian Magazine on MSN14 天
This Intrepid Team of Bee Lovers Are Doing Everything They Can to Save Rare Native Species ...
Iridescent sweat bees, hairy-faced mining bees, tiny Perdita minima the size of a gnat. Thanks to swarms of apiary ...
Biomechanical 'size matching' explains floral isolation in bumblebee-pollinated elephant ...
Buzz pollination—a process in which bees extract pollen by vibrating flowers—occurs in more than 20,000 plant species. Among ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN11 天
The Swarm of People Intent on Saving Our Bees
An army of experts and citizen scientists devoted to documenting and protecting the country’s native bees is telling us a lot ...
BBC25 天
Rare bees and voles to benefit from nature strategy
Rare species of bees, voles and dormice are among the creatures earmarked for protection in a new environmental plan. North Northamptonshire Council is only the second in the country to publish a ...
The Canadian Press on MSN1 天
One-fifth of pollinator species in North America at risk of extinction, says report
Many butterflies, bees and moths are fluttering into oblivion. A new report co-authored by a Canadian researcher warns that ...
Center for Biological Diversity2 年
Rare Cuckoo Bumblebees Move One Step Closer to U.S. Endangered Species Protection
The species has already declined by more than 90%. Over the past two decades, a few scattered individuals have been spotted in California, Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana. ”This ...
A fifth of North America's pollinating species at risk of extinction: report
Many butterflies, bees and moths are fluttering into oblivion. A new report co-authored by a Canadian researcher warns that more than one-fifth of pollinator species it studied in North America are at ...
BBC3 年
What’s all the fuss about bees?
They tracked their escape backwards to find the Earth. In reality, some species of bees are in fact disappearing, and while they may not be aliens, their loss could potentially spell quite a lot ...