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Other examples of this environmental Catch-22 are all too easy to find. In 1970 the lowbush blueberry harvest in New Brunswick, Canada, declined by 75% from the previous year after nearby conifer forests were sprayed with pesticides that wiped out the bees that pollinate the blueberries. In parts of...
Most conspicuous of the pollinators in crisis are honeybees, the pollinators par excellence among insects. Since being imported from Europe more than 375 years ago, they have spread rapidly throughout the New World. Honeybees typically pollinate 15% of the U.S.'s crops, but lately the bees have been hard hit...
ON NBC'S LAW & ORDER LAST WEEK, a white racist set off a bomb that killed 20 people on a New York City subway train. Tori Spelling, in the CBS movie Co-Ed Call Girl, grabbed a gun and shot a sleazy pimp. Batman (the cartoon character) was almost thrown...
Scientists, too, value amber. Trapped within the translucent, usually gold-colored substance are some of the most ancient examples of certain species known to science. The oldest ants, moths, stingless bees, caterpillars, termites, mushrooms and pollen grains, some of them dating back tens of millions of years, have been found...
Other samples provide dramatic snapshots of prehistoric behavior: mites hitchhiking on the back of sweat bees; a leaf beetle spitting out a stream of noxious bubbles in self-defense; spiders caught in the act of mating; a praying mantis attacked by ants; a spider finishing off a millipede.