Known for its lethal sting and ability to decimate a honey bee hive in just a few hours, the world's largest hornet was first ...

One-third of everything Americans eat comes from pollinators like honey bees, according to the US Department of Agriculture. Insects are going extinct 8 times faster than mammals, birds ...

Bees. Among the most hardworking and organized insects in the entire world. They are appreciated and loved by doctors for the ...

Unfortunately, as detailed in the Center’s report Pollinators in Peril, 1 in 4 native bee species is at risk of extinction. Native bees face a ... grazing, and feral honey bees. The Center petitioned ...

Narrator: The extinction of bees could have a disastrous domino effect, killing off animals that eat those plants, and so on up the food chain. Luckily, humanity wouldn't face a global famine like ...

Present species extinction rates are 100 to 1,000 ... These included more efficient handling of the bees and techniques for extracting honey. Desertification and land degradation are major ...

In fact, we would – whether we’re based in the city or the countryside – also see a physical change in the world around us if bees were to become extinct ... for them. Honey bees live ...

Bees aren’t faring any better. More than a quarter of North American bumblebees are at risk of extinction with both bees and butterflies declining by a shocking 1 or 2% a year, according to a ...

Now it is being repurposed to help address the “extremely serious problem” of possible bee extinction, said biologist German Perilla, director of the Honey Bee Impact Foundation. About three ...

There are more than 250 species of bee in the UK, including the honey bee that normally lives in hives that ... many as 24% of Europe’s bumblebee species are now threatened with extinction, despite ...

Twenty one bee species in Northern Ireland are at risk of extinction unless action is taken, according to a report. The study by conservation charity Buglife Northern Ireland examined historical ...