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03/07/2020

https://nativebeeology.com/2018/01/26/native-honey-bees/

The European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) arrived in the Americas aboard European ships around 1622. In a way this was a homecoming, America had regained her long lost honey bees. It has always been …

01/31/2019

https://australiascience.tv/twenty-six-new-bee-species-discovered-in-the-australian-outback

A haul of 26 newly discovered Australian bee species suggests there’s a lot more out there still to be found. South Australian researchers have discovered 26 new species of native bees from the outback of Australia. The new species belong to the subgenus Colletellus in the genus Leioproctus in the...

01/24/2019

https://returntonow.net/2019/01/24/france-becomes-the-first-country-to-ban-all-five-pesticides-linked-to-bee-deaths/

France’s new ban goes further than the European Union’s, which outlaws only 3 bee-killing pesticides France has now set the benchmark in the global effort to save the bees and prevent “ecological Armageddon.” The country banned all 5 of the neonicotinoid pesticides that researchers are blami...

01/21/2019

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cannabis-fields-offer-late-season-pollen-source-stressed-bees

Colorado’s legal fields of low-THC cannabis can attract a lot of bees.

10/09/2018

https://triblive.com/usworld/world/14150891-74/the-mushroom-dream-of-a-long-haired-hippie-could-help-save-the-worlds

SEATTLE--The epiphany that mushrooms could help save the world's ailing bee colonies struck Paul Stamets while he was in bed. 'I love waking dreams,' he said. 'It's a time when you're just coming back into consciousness.' Years ago, in 1984, Stamets had noticed a 'continuous convoy of bees' travelin...

03/07/2017

http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature20588

10/03/2016

bees-placed-on-endangered-species-list-a-first-in-the-us

The United States is on a mission to save some of its busiest workers: bees.

11/07/2015

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