Bees are pass away fast and that ’s not good for people who likeplants and food . Yesterday , the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Servicedeterminedthat members of seven scandalmongering - faced bee from the Hylaeus specie require Union auspices . If you ’re in Hawaii where this stigma of bee lodge in , you might want to think twice before swat .
Yellow - faced bees were Hawaii ’s most profuse insects in the early 1900s , but due to habitat loss , invasive coinage and climate change they are seldom get wind these days .
https://gizmodo.com/bees-dying-globally-at-an-alarming-rate-thanks-in-part-1784365855
We know that humankind tend to run a major role in the end of bee habitat and from time to time we just crop - dust the crap out of them by accident . Whoops .
But the Hylaeus species is also getting screwed by its own kind . An trespassing bee from India that is of the same genus has been taking over the endangered dirt ball ’ greensward — nesting in the same plants and vie for the same flowers .
They are also facing stiff competition from “ exotic pismire , ” so designated because Hawaii has no native ants . These pismire love eat the larva from a yellow - faced bee nest .
Jason Graham , an entomologist at the University of Hawaii , has become one the extend experts on Hawaii ’s yellow - faced bees and he ’s forge an contrived nest to help them with their ant trouble . accord toNational Geographic :
“ The artificial nests are wooden blocks with pre - drilled holes that play off the hole size of it female bees look for when domicile - shopping for a nest spot , ” he sound out . The corduroy that attaches the nest blocks to a branch is then cover with a sticky subject matter that prevents grovel predators , like ants , from arrive within .
While that little gismo wo n’t help the bees with their human trouble , being placed on the endangered species list will at least protect decisive habitats .
[ National Geographic ]
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