pollinators

During his undergraduate studies at St. Mary’s University in Halifax, this 22-year-old helped discover there are many more bees in Nova Scotia’s salt marshes than previously thought. 

The number of people not mowing their lawns is increasing after a successful campaign to keep gardens wild, a leading nature charity says.

If bumblebee populations do continue to dwindle, most assuredly, we will be worse off for it.

Silflower was among native plants that blanketed the vast North American prairie until settlers developed farms and cities. Nowadays confined largely to roadsides and ditches, the long-stemmed cousin of the sunflower may be poised for a comeback, thanks to solar energy.

Despite acknowledging the dangers neonics, a common class of pesticides, pose, Canada is failing to protect bees and other pollinators, environmentalists say.  

To recreate a natural environment, researchers made nesting boxes, and then attached them to 10 Montreal billboards. Twice over the summer, part of the nests will be taken back to the lab at Université de Montréal to look for a way to beef up the bee population.

A recently published study suggests that one of the world's most common pesticides may be contributing to the decline of one of its most-loved butterflies.

They may be much-hated insects, but wasps are voracious predators of pests, produce powerful antibiotics and pollinate plants.

Almost a quarter of the estimated 20,000 bee species on Earth may be in decline, researchers have found. The January study is the first time the well-being of pollinators has been assessed on a global scale, with previous concerns of declining wild pollinator populations based on local or regional studies.

Forget lions, tigers and bears: For Claire Kremen, winner of the 2020 Volvo Environment Prize, conserving insects is more important.

Hidden in anodyne filing cabinets scattered across the federal government’s Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa is a library of 17 million dead bugs.

In North America, bumblebees — a vital native pollinator — are estimated to have seen their relative abundance crash by 97 per cent, with the sharpest decline occurring in the past 30 years.

A lack of wild bees and managed honey bees is limiting pollination and yields for certain crops on farms in British Columbia and across the United States, a collective of researchers has found.

Experts call for solutions to be enforced immediately to halt global population collapses

Research measuring the effort of climate change on bees suggests they are only half as likely to be found in areas where they were once common.