News Headline
Patagonia may lose its only native bumblebee due to alien bee invasion
Source
Ecologist (UK)
Publication Date
2018-03-06
Patagonia's giant bumblebee is now considered endangered due to invasions of alien bee species, according to a new study.Marcelo Aizen, from the Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina, and colleagues from four other countries draw attention to the severe conservation, economic and political consequences of intentional species introductions supported by government policies in their paper, published today in Journal of Applied Ecology,