Bees can't wait.
The number of registered wild bee species has decreased by 25% since 1990 - indicating that these species are no longer seen in the wild. “ Bees can't wait. " A quarter of the known bee species have not been registered since 1990. Global study shows that the number of species reported in the wild fell sharply between 1990 and 2015 According to a global analysis of bee decline, the number of wild bee species recorded in the international life database on Earth has decreased by a quarter since 1990 . The researchers analysed bee records from museums, universities and citizen scientists compiled by the global biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), a global, government-funded network . They found a sharp decline in bee species recorded since 1990, with around 25% fewer species reported between 2006 and 2015 than before the 1990s. Although this does not mean that these species are extinct, it may indicate that some of them have now become too scarce to be regularly observed in ...