Bees flying near cars are dying by the millions, a roadkill study suggests

Tens of millions of bees are likely being killed each day by vehicles — and that’s just in the western United States, a new study finds.

The paper, published online November 7 in Sustainable Environment, is the first to document how cars may be contributing to the widespread loss of bees, essential pollinators of both wild plants and a third of the world’s crops (SN: 8/4/20).

Roads are a double-edged sword for pollinators, says evolutionary ecologist Joseph Wilson of the University of Utah in Tooele. Medians and shoulders create space for flowering plants to flourish even as they bring insects closer to vehicles.

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