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

Scientists put sticky traps on car bumpers to tally how many bees get hit on a typical trip

A composite image showing a variety of bees that got trapped on sticky paper on car bumpers as part of research figuring out the toll cars take on the pollinators.

Scientists studying bee roadkill were able to identify bees belonging to more than a dozen different genera caught in sticky paper traps put on car bumpers, as seen in this composite image.

Joseph S. Wilson

By Amanda Heidt

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.