Feral honeybees have become a major problem in Australia. It’s time to develop effective and practical control measures.
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Maintaining a diversity of insects may be key for crop pollination in cities.
The optimal trade-off between restoring habitat and crop production hinges on pollinators. A new study shows giving pollinators more natural habitat on the farm leads to big increases in production.
Honey bees have what it takes to pollinate blueberries, boosting the quality and quantity of the popular fruit.
Many people can’t get by without the buzz from their daily coffee habit.
Celebrating the European honeybee is a misplaced opportunity to honour our forgotten native pollinators.
A diverse pollinator community is a reliable one.
Chemicals banned in the EU were recently granted an exemption for limited use in the UK.
The steep decline in biodiversity is worrying, especially as wild species are important for pollination and pest control.
Victory gardens were popular during wartime, and have made a comeback during the current pandemic.
In NSW, honeybees are listed as a key threatening process to biodiversity.
A new study has found that European and North American bumblebee populations have shrank by a third since 1970.
Research shows that managed honey bees may pose a threat to free roaming honey bee populations.
You have to draw an ethical line somewhere so if you were vegan, would you still eat avocados?
Pollination by commercially raised bees is important to a variety of crops but none more than California almonds. In turn, beekeepers depend on them.
Many fruits, nuts and other crops rely on bees to pollinate their flowers at just the right time of year. Many farmers rent bees to get the job done at pollination time.
Honeybees receive a lot of attention, but the first North American bee to be listed as an endangered species is a wild bumble bee. Wild bees are vital pollinators, and some are declining rapidly.
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Lecturer in Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong
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Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University
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Consultant Neonatologist and Professor of Ethics, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor, University of Adelaide
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Postdoctoral research associate, Michigan State University
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Visiting Research Fellow, University of Adelaide
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Biodiversity Management Officer, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Spatial Sciences and ARC DECRA Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Scientist, South African National Biodiversity Institute
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Senior Research Associate in Entomology, Lancaster University
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Assistant Professor and Extension Economist, Auburn University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada
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Associate Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
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Chancellor's Professor of Biology, Carleton University
