Picture shows a Colletes cunicularius, undated. The Natural History Museum Stuttgart's wild bee committee decided to award the spring mining bee (Colletes cunicularius) to highlight its precarious situation and astonishing habits. (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)
Picture shows Zohra, 13, (left) and Louisa Boucheloukh, 9, (right) in undated footage. The two sisters have raised hundreds of Euros to create a flower seed vending machine in a bid to ensure the existence of wild bee species. (NewsX/Bee)
The venom of wild bees such as the violet carpenter bee (Xylocopa violacea), with its main component melittin, is less aggressive than that of honey bees, a team from the LOEWE Center TBG discovered, undated photo. In the future, it could be used against breast cancer cells, among other things. (Björn M. von Reumont, NewsX/Bee)
A green sweat bee (Augochlora pura) forages on goldenrod flowers, undated. Researchers found that many sweat bee species were among those that declined in abundance over six years in southcentral Pennsylvania. (Nash Turley, Penn State, NewsX/Bee)