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Recent Weed Science Society of America Press Releases: Beetles Help Take a Bite out […]

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Singing the Praises of the Bumblebee - Gardening - Gardens - New York Times - Annotated

 
By ANNE RAVER
Published: April 24, 2008

The bumblebee and other native wild bees are all the more important in the garden now that the population of honeybees is in such decline — down to 2.4 million colonies last year from 5.5 […]

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BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Highlands and Islands | Wild bee decline ‘catastrophic’ - Annotated

Wild bee populations around the UK are experiencing "catastrophic declines", the Bumblebee Conservation Trust has warned.

Tony Riome, vice president of Ayr and District Beekeepers Association, said it had been estimated every third mouthful of food consumed could be […]

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Invasive Notes: Butterflies and Smithsonian; Invasive Species and You Annotated

We plant flowers for the adults on the one hand, while at the same time working diligently to remove all traces of the caterpillar which is busy eating our plants. In other words, we remove the native host plants which provide a food source for […]

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Bats Perish, and No One Knows Why - New York Times Annotated
 

 
 
By TINA KELLEY
Published: March 25, 2008
 
In what is one of the worst calamities to hit bat populations in the United States, on average 90 percent of the hibernating bats in four caves and mines in New York have died since last winter.
Wildlife biologists […]

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