National Public Radio: This is an alarming story, not because it ends badly. It’s alarming because it ends well. It shouldn’t have, but it did, and biologists (and especially conservationists) now have a puzzle to ponder.
The story begins in central China, in an apple-growing region called Maoxian County, near the city of Chengdu. In the mid-1990s, the bees that regularly showed up there every spring suddenly didn’t. Apple farmers, obviously, need bees. Bees dust their way through blossoms, moving from flower to flower,…

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