Rise in urban beekeeping may be crowding out native bee species

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Efforts to “save the bees” by encouraging urban beekeeping over the past decade may have been good for honeybees, but wild native bees appear to be paying the price

Millions of colonies of farmed bees are used to help pollinate crops.

It turns out they can escape and mate with local bees, producing offspring that may be vulnerable to climate changeThe lifespan of bees raised in US laboratories is half what it was in the 1970s, suggesting there may be a genetic reason behind increasing rates of colony collapseWith spring arriving in the UK, it’s the perfect time to create bee hotels, designed to be snug and safe for these important pollinating insects, saysThe number of bee species appears to have declined sharply in the past...

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