‘Bee-washing,’ marketing claims that purport to help bees, can diminish the important distinction between a honey bee and native bee.
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A new study has found that European and North American bumblebee populations have shrank by a third since 1970.
Mosquitoes have intricate and essential relationships with plants. Understanding their important work as pollinators would help to understand their role in different ecosystems.
Wild things thrive in transmission pathways that crisscross states.
Britain’s councils are cutting roadside verges less often to allow vibrant wildflower meadows to bloom.
Wildflowers, bees and butterflies – your lawn is a vibrant ecosystem waiting to be unleashed.
You can barely communicate with your kids, but these creatures are sending complex interspecies instructions.
They might be a hated household pest, but ants actually live fascinating and complex lives.
New research has found that different types of habitat loss can change the stability of whole plant and animal communities.
Wild bees pollinate trees and shrubs that feed and shelter wildlife, provide flood control, prevent soil erosion and help regulate the climate.
Urban beekeeping is growing in popularity, but so is the backlash against honey bees.
Alarm bells went off when several recent studies reported mass insect die-offs in different parts of the world. But reports of an ‘insect apocalypse’ have been greatly exaggerated.
Bees might not be able to survive inside a person’s eye, but they can be drawn to disgusting food sources.
Amid the insect extinction crisis, some species are actually increasing. Here’s why that’s not necessarily a good thing.
The guinea flower grows right across Australia.
Digital innovations have the potential to empower farmers and revolutionise agriculture, but many could also lock them in to unsustainable methods.
For human planting to support bee diversity, we need to know which flowers the insects want to visit.
Bees need flowers to live, and we need bees to pollinate our crops. Understanding bee vision can help us better support our buzzy friends and the critical pollination services they provide.
Bee colonies are threatened by a mite. However, a different mite has been evaluated for its potential to address this threat.
Keeping urban habitats such as parks neat and tidy by removing dead wood and leaves is driving the species which live there to extinction.
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