Deforestation Harms Biodiversity Of The Amazon’s Perfume-Loving Orchid Bees

A survey of orchid bees in the Brazilian Amazon state of Rondônia, carried out in the 1990s, is shedding new light the impact of deforestation on the scent-collecting pollinators, which some view as bellwethers of biodiversity in the neotropics.

The findings, from a researcher at the University of Kansas, are published in...