Environment
Chile's berry farms run on imported bumblebees while Patagonia's giant native bee vanishes
A FERN/bioGraphic investigation from raspberry fields near Osorno: Chile has imported 1,633,011 Bombus terrestris colonies and queens since 1997 for berries and greenhouse crops, and the endangered Bombus dahlbomii — Patagonia's only endemic bumblebee — is down 50–90%; researchers say the European b