Bee extinction: Why we're saving the wrong bees

Think honey bees are disappearing? Or that the more hives we have the better? Think again. Here's why they're the bad boys of the bee world, and what we should be focusing on instead.



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Read More (Links):



Pollinator assessment

https://www.ipbes.net/sites/default/files/downloads/pdf/2017_pollination_full_report_book_v12_pages.pdf

Wild bees and pollination

https://www.fibl.org/fileadmin/documents/shop/1645-wild-bees.pdf

Pollination in the almond fields in the US

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/07/honeybees-deaths-almonds-hives-aoe

Crop production hurt by lack of pollinators

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.0922

Wild bee numbers declining

https://www.cell.com/one-earth/pdfExtended/S2590-3322(20)30651-5

Honeybees threaten wild bees, preserving both

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2019.00060/full



Reporter: Amanda Coulson-Drasner

Video editors: Amanda Coulson-Drasner, Frederik Willmann

Supervising editors: Kiyo Dörrer, Joanna Gottschalk