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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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