Landmark Study Shows Soil Pesticide Reduces Wild Bee Reproduction by 89% When you think of bees, a hive humming with activity probably comes to mind. But most of the world’s 20,000 bee species don’t call a hive home. These wild species lead solitary lives instead, and around 70 percent of them build nests underground where they raise their offspring on the nectar they gather from flowers. Read more about this article by Philip Donkersley here:

https://www.sciencealert.com/study-finds-family-of-pesticides-implicated-in-honeybee-deaths-also-hurt-ground-bees