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Topic: Honeybees

A Carniolan honey bee (Apis mellifera carnica) collecting nectar from a blooming blossoms of an azaleas (Rhododendron) bush. (Frank Bienewald/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Can we protect bees from pesticides?

Matthew Rozsa
Honey bees in a swarm (Getty Images/Andreas Häuslbetz)

How insect swarms can change the weather

Troy Farah
Bumblebee pollinating a flowering cannabis plant (Getty Images/Aleksandr_Kravtsov)

Why bees love weed

Troy Farah
A picture taken on July 4, 2019 shows bees collecting nectar on a sunflower in a field in Weisskirchen, Germany. (Boris Roessler/AFP/Getty Images)

How "bee-washing" misleads consumers

Lila Westreich - The Conversation
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In this July 8, 2015 file photo a bumblebee gathers nectar on a wildflower in Appleton, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Plight of the bumblebee

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Insect decline may cause apocalypse

Matthew Rozsa
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-85757p1.html'>StudioSmart</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Listen to the bees

Reynard Loki - Alternet
(l i g h t p o e t/Shutterstock)

EPA gives one to the bees

Lindsay Abrams
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Lindsay Abrams
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The bees are going extinct

Lindsay Abrams
(Tony Campbell/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-85757p1.html'>StudioSmart</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Joseph Stromberg - Smithsonian.com
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Lindsay Abrams
(OAndrews/Flickr)

Lindsay Abrams
(Carsten aus Bonn/Flickr)

Lindsay Abrams
(mommamia via OnEarth.org)

Scott Dodd
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Honeybees are disappearing

Jill Richardson - Alternet
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