World Bee Day is often a chance to celebrate the hard work bees do to pollinate our plants and keep our ecosystems healthy — but this year, experts say it’s also an opportunity to sound the alarm about the dangers they face, especially after more than two years of COVID-19.
“I’m not really sure how the pandemic helped native bees, but certainly it didn’t help honey bees at all,” said Amro Zayed, a professor of biology and the director of the Bee Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Centre at Toronto’s York University.
These vital insects play a central role in agriculture. In fact, more than a third of the food
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