Bees
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Mail carriers encounter mean dogs so often it’s become a cliche, but it was a nest of wasps that claimed the life of an Iowa mail carrier. Dwayne Kriegel was depositing mail in an outdoor box last week, just as he has almost every day for the past 30 years, when his right hand was…
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When tasked with making their unique nests, Argentina’s solitary bees are now choosing plastic. Wile bees nesting in Argentinian crop fields were recently found constructing nests entirely made of the flimsy plastic packaging material left on farms. From 2017 to 2018, researchers at Argentina’s National Agricultural Technology Institute crafted wooden, artificial nests for wild bees.…
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