Category: bees

All bees are needed – including wild bees

All bees are needed, both honeybees and wild bees, according to Maj Rundlöf, a researcher at Lund University. However, it also appears that all bees are at risk of decline. If all bees were to die out, we could be left without fruit and vegetables. We would be forced to...

Anna Persson, post doc at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, sees a future in urban meadows.

Cities and bees – mutually dependent?

In a sustainable city, everyone is needed – including flowers, crops and bees. Perhaps it’s time to plan flowering meadows and green corridors into our cities, says Anna Persson, a researcher at the Department of Biology, Lund University. Anna Persson and her colleagues in the Biodiversity and Conservation Science Group...