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Viewpoint: Almond growers driving bees to ‘extinction’? Challenging the latest pollinator decline scare story

Angela Logomasini | 
The policies of greens are a greater threat to wildlife than high-yield agriculture ...
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Viewpoint: Wild bees on the decline? Lack of evidence challenges popular environmentalist narrative

Henry Miller | 
'We can’t be simultaneously in the midst of a pollinator crisis threatening our ability to grow food and see continually ...
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Pesticides don’t pose acute health risk to honeybees foraging on farmland, two-year study finds

Jon Zawislak | 
Honey bees forage across a large area, continually scouting the local landscape for ephemeral food resources. Beekeepers often rely on ...
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Video: Can we keep this parasitic, bee-killing mite out of the US?

Linh Bui, Samuel Ramsey | 
“Bees are not just an incredibly charismatic insect, they’re also incredibly vital to our way of life as human beings,” ...
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‘Industrial-scale’ beekeeping doesn’t boost disease prevalence in honeybee colonies, study shows

Lewis Bartlett | 
It is generally thought that the intensification of farming will result in higher disease prevalences, although there is little specific ...
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Book review: ‘The Lives of Bees’ offers 14 tips to help keep honeybees healthy and pollinating our crops

What were the lives of wild honey bees like before humans began intensively managing them and moving them all over ...
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Varroa mites central driver of uptick in overwinter honeybee colony losses according to 2018-2019 survey, worrying entomologists

Beekeepers across the United States lost 40.7% of their honey bee colonies from April 2018 to April 2019, according to ...
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Varroa destructor mite attacks on honeybees threaten wild bumblebees, too, research shows

A mite that spreads a dangerous virus among honeybees also plays an indirect role in infecting wild bumblebees, new research ...
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How NPR, Washington Post, Bloomberg and other media botched reporting on EPA’s ‘ban’ of 12 ‘bee-killing’ neonicotinoid insecticides

Cameron English, Jon Entine | 
If headlines are the measure, groups claiming bees are endangered by misuse of pesticides just scored a significant victory ...
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New model uncovers possible mechanism behind Varroa mite’s assault on honey bees

Desiderato Annoscia | 
The association between the deformed wing virus and the parasitic mite Varroa destructor has been identified as a major cause of worldwide ...
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