Bees
I’m celebrating buying a new home in Norfolk, England. It has a beautiful garden with lots of lavender bushes. The bees love it. Bees are amazing: intelligent, socially organised and vital pollinators of our food and flowers. One estimate puts their global economic value at $217bn (€174bn). But bees are facing existential threats, from pesticides, land-use change and more extreme weather events. The U.S. has recorded annual colony die-offs of 30-45% over the past 10 years. And globally 40% of all insect species are in decline and could die out in the coming decades. Are you bee-friendly?
— Wayne Visser
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