Dr Dominique Zimmermann poses in undated photo. She was part of a group of researchers who investigated the fauna at the Sandberge Oberweiden conservation area in Lower Austria's Marchfeld region. (Minitta Kandlbauer, NewsX/Bee)
The Bee & Butterfly Habitat Fund note attached among flowers, undated. An American NGO which focuses on pollinator habitat conservation has launched a project aiming at getting solar energy players on board. (NewsX/Bee)
Picture shows a bee on a flower, undated. More than 40,000 square metres of public property all over Berlin have been turned into wild bee habitats, officials in the German capital have revealed. (dr Christian Schmid-Egger, NewsX/Bee)
Leaf cutting bees (Megachile apicalis) and thistle (Cirsium sp.), undated. Rare plant species turn urban gardens into habitats that appeal to scarce kinds of bees and birds, researchers in the United States have found. (Photo by Malcolm Bowey, NewsX/Bee)