Environmental activists staged a protest in Berlin on Wednesday to call for more insect protection. /CFP

Activists from the environmental campaign group Campact laid out about 200 oversized cardboard cutouts of bees in front of the German Chancellery to protest the decline in insect populations and to demand a new law to protect them. /CFP

Bee populations have declined by as much as 75 percent in Germany, according to Campact. /CFP