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Why we need wild bees


The underappreciated benefits of wild bees - Knowable Magazine

In agricultural fields around the world, native bees help to pollinate the three-quarters of crop species that rely on pollinators, which ...

What is the role of native bees in the United States? - USGS.gov

In almost all crops, native bees are the primary pollinator or they significantly supplement the activity of honey bees. Even crops like cotton, soybeans, and ...

Why Wild Bees Matter, and How We Can All Help Save Them

There's not a lot of pesticide use in cities, especially where they have pesticide bans. So bees are buffered from that. Cities provide a lot of ...

Why we should save the bees, especially the wild bees who need ...

As bee habitat is carved up to make way for sprawling suburbs and other development, bees lose food and nesting sites critical to their survival. You can help ...

Why do we need bees? | Friends of the Earth

Bees are perfectly adapted to pollinate, helping plants grow, breed and produce food. They do so by transferring pollen between flowering plants ...

Why we need wild bees - Ars Technica

“If you overcrowd any space with honey bees, there is a competition for natural resources, and since bees have the largest numbers, they push ...

Why bees are essential to people and planet - UNEP

Bees are part of the biodiversity on which we all depend for our survival. They provide high-quality food—honey, royal jelly and pollen — and ...

Why Are Bees Important? - The Woodland Trust

Bees pollinate many of the crops used for animal feed. Without them, it would be harder to produce lots of our meat, egg and dairy products.

The Wonder of Wild Bees (Super-pollinators Part 1)

Native bees are North America's most important group of pollinators and play a vitally important role in maintaining the structure of many types ...

Wild Bee Conservation - Xerces Society

Bees are the most important group of pollinators. With the exception of a few species of wasps, only bees deliberately gather pollen to bring back to their ...

The importance of the (wild) bee and what you can do to help!

Bees are essential for our biodiversity and for our food. Therefore, on this Earth Day, plant an extra flower in your garden or on your balcony, ...

Why wild bees matter, and how we can all help save them

Honeybees bring in hundreds of different parasites and viruses. Managed bumblebees also have really high disease levels, and they're used ...

The Buzz on Native Bees | U.S. Geological Survey - USGS.gov

Most pollen is used by bees as larvae food, but bees also transfer it from plant-to-plant providing the pollination services needed by plants and nature as a ...

Why are Bees Important? - Friends of the Earth

Bees are one of the world's most important pollinators for food crops — each day we rely on bees and other pollinators. In fact, out of every ...

Perspective Chapter: Wild Bees – Importance, Threats ... - IntechOpen

Wild bees hold tremendous significance as vital natural pollinators on a global scale. Approximately 20,000 bee species have been described worldwide.

Wild Bees and Native Pollinators - The Best Bees Company

All animals such as bees, birds, and butterflies have coevolved with plants to form symbiotic relationships. In these partnerships, some animals ...

Honey Bees? It's Our Native Bees That Need the Buzz

“There are many crops that native bees do a lot better job of pollinating than honey bees do,” he said at a Virginia Master Naturalist lecture. Honeybees are ...

We Need Bees | Resources - Planet Bee Foundation

Honey bees are vital to our ecosystem, acting as highly efficient pollinators for food crops and wild flora. We need bees to keep our crops and earth healthy, ...

Want to Save the Bees? Focus on Habitat, Not Honey Bees

Honey bees are excellent pollinators of some crops, but not all. Native species such as this mining bee are more efficient pollinators of ...

We Need Bees - Bee Better Certified

Pollinators even help milk production: the alfalfa and clover cows graze is replenished by seed pollinated by bees. Worldwide, production of animal-pollinated ...