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Feb 6, 2006 · Most bees are solitary, wild species, but some are kept or managed for pollination of crops or to produce honey, including the non-native western honey bee (Apis mellifera). Other familiar bees include bumble bees (genus Bombus), mason bees (genus Osmia) and leafcutter bees (genus Megachile).
There are over 20,000 bee species worldwide, including the honey bee, which originated in Eurasia and has been imported around the globe as a domesticated species. Wild bees species live on every continent except Antarctica.
May 23, 2024 · From shiny sweat bees to industrious mason bees, these native pollinators are quietly vanishing. A comprehensive study of bees in Montreal underscored this issue. From 2013 to 2020, as honeybee hives skyrocketed from 250 to nearly 3,000, native bee populations nosedived.
This fact sheet provides an overview of the research and science about the impacts of the western honey bee, a species that is not native to North America, has on this continent's thousands of species of native bees, and offers steps to take that will help support all bees.
Apr 19, 2024 · Bees are indispensable pollinators, vital to the health of wild flowering plants and food crops alike. But “bee” is a big category – holding everything from buzzing hives of honeybees, to round fuzzy bumblebees, to metallic blue mason bees, and more. We know that saving the bees is important.
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Oct 6, 2022 · There are bumblebees, sweat bees, leafcutter bees, mason bees, carpenter bees and more, with each species playing out its own role in the ecosystem. Unfortunately, many wild bees are in trouble. Habitat loss and pesticides are a factor, but the two biggest threats are climate change and disease.
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Dec 1, 2013 · As honeybees die en masse, wild bees are needed more than ever—but they, too, are disappearing. In the late 1800s naturalist Charles Robertson traveled around Carlinville, Ill., by horse and ...
