Researchers claim pollution is dramatically cutting the distance travelled by the scent molecules of plants.
This is preventing flowers from attracting bees and other insects needed to pollinate them.
As a consequence, the numbers of insects are dramatically dwindling as they struggle to located the nectar off which they feed.
(Thanks: Nick Redfern.)
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Another major factor in the decline of bee colonies is the recent scientific study and finding that a form of "bee-lice" carries a new and destructive virus. Insecticides and many other factors contribute to the decline, also.
See: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/AA090
And: http://tinyurl.com/2q3nqp
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