Bee Concerned: Big study—Selective pollinators are declining

A million records from insect-spotting hobbyists in Europe contain the broadest evidence so far of a decline among some of the region’s pollinators and the wild plants that need them, says an international research team.

WAX AND WANE. A species of wild bee, Andrena gravida, is not as widespread in Britain and the Netherlands as it was before 1980.