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Andrea Pickart/USFWS
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Public Domain
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“When European beach grass comes into an area, it completely covers the open sand that they are nesting in. The bees lose their habitat and disappear, and you lose an important tool for agriculture,” said Andrea Pickart, ecologist for the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Above, a leafcutter bee on a seaside daisy. Credit: Andrea Pickart/USFWS
Ecosystem
Desert
Species