Bees are in big trouble. The good news is that virtually all ecologically literate North Americans will tell you that. The bad news is they’re worried about the wrong bees — honey bees.
I just looked at a new study out of Michigan re the reasons for declining populations of Bumble Bees in urbanized settings and it's fascinating. It makes us think about "shrinking" cities, etc. This is a full article from PubMed PLoS. It's easily read: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...