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Cutting pesticide use on farms doubles abundance of wild pollinators

In a three-year study on US farms, the numbers of wild pollinators and commercial bees were much higher in fields where pesticides were applied only when needed

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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

Life

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

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Life

Honeybees benefit from strips of native plants embedded in farmland

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A beekeeper tends to a honeybee hive

Life

Rise in urban beekeeping may be crowding out native bee species

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Bee on a rape flower

Health

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

Inadequate numbers of bees and other pollinators have a huge impact on human health due to lower production of fruit and vegetables, according to a modelling study

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Life

A surprising number of African animals eat beeswax

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Life

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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Life

Honeybee swarms generate more electricity per metre than a storm cloud

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