A new report that coincides with World Bee Day outlines the significant collapse of bee species in one of the "richest regions of bees in Britain" Maria Pasquini is the senior news editor for the ...

Wild bee declines have been ascribed in part to neonicotinoid insecticides. While short-term laboratory studies on commercially bred species (principally honeybees and bumblebees) have identified ...

This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The number of wild bee species recorded by an international database of life on earth has declined by a ...

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Bees feed us. Many of the 20,000 species pollinate 85 percent of food crops and fruits around the world—everything from garlic and grapefruits to coffee and kale. Halictid bees—also called sweat bees ...