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A collage of four photos of flowers and bees

"A lot of dead plants and blooms, the buds are not there."
A man in the bush

"This time of year, we would like to be here in the spring country on the sand plains,"
he said

A dry flower seed

"Apart from the starvation in this area, it's been very quiet,"
he said.

a man eating honeycombe

A bee hive

A bee on a hand

"There's been a lot of flowering … but it's been dry flowering, there's actually been no nectar or pollen,"
Dr Barbour said.

A woman in a white shirt

A woman in a garden

"We could lose that species if we don't take care of it."
A bee statue

A bee on a clover flower

A field of clover

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