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Stingless bees become world’s first insect to be granted legal rights in Peru

In a global first, Peru recognizes stingless bees as rights-bearing species, reshaping how insects fit into environmental law ...
Yahoo

Why do bees have queens? 2 biologists explain this insect’s social structure – and why some bees don’t have a queen at all

When you think “bee,” you likely picture one species that lives all over the world: the honey bee. And honey bees have queens, a female who lays essentially all of the eggs for the colony. But most ...
The Brooklyn Paper

Insect infrastructure: ‘Bee hotels’ to provide refuge for pollinators in Brooklyn pedestrian plazas

Brooklyn’s pedestrian plazas will be quite literally buzzing with activity this spring as the city expands The Pollinator Port Project, a program to offer refuge to local bees and other pollinators.

Ancient bees laid eggs inside bones

Bees are frequently associated with large queen-serving colonies featuring hundreds if not thousands of insects. In actuality ...
Environment News Service

Squash Bee Populations Growing Fast While Other Bees Fail

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 4, 2023 (ENS) – Numbers of bees and other pollinator species have declined worldwide, as these insects suffer due to pesticides and pathogens, likely amplified by ...
JSTOR Daily

Large-scale pollination experiment demonstrates the importance of insect pollination in winter oilseed rape

Insect pollination, despite its potential to contribute substantially to crop production, is not an integrated part of agronomic planning. A major reason for this are knowledge gaps in the ...