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Within a few years of wood harvest, native bees in the Oregon Coast Range are numerous and diversified in clearcut regions, but as planted trees grow and the forest canopy closes, their numbers rapidly decline.
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An experimental study discovered that without bumble bees, a flowering plant that can self-pollinate lost a significant amount of genetic diversity in just nine generations.
A huge fall in bee populations at fruit orchards in New Jersey and Pennsylvania has Rutgers scientists questioning if it is a natural phenomenon or a warning sign of a future threat to the world's food supply.