Picture shows the IFMA Campus Caxias, in Brazil, undated. Ana Caroline Mendes engages in MaraBee, an apiculture initiative at the Federal Institute of Education Science and Technology of Maranhao (IFMA) in Caxias, northeastern Brazil. (NewsX/Bee)
Picture shows a male specimen of an early bumblebee (Bombus pratorum) landing on an Echinacea purpurea flower, undated. It can be found throughout Europe, except for the Iberian peninsula. (Bernie Kohl, NewsX/Bee)
Picture shows honeybee with pollen on sunflower, undated. Solitary bees are more affected by human-induced habitat loss than their social insect species, a new study suggests. (Francisca Segers, NewsX/Bee)