Thanks for researching this! Still not good news for bees ๐ ๐ช
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Those bees know what they did
Pesticides, same as always.
I was worried so I looked for the source of the information, it seems to be from 'Washington State University" from their website they say it concerns "Commercial honey bee colony", so it might not be all bees (I don't know enough to say what the difference is exactly), they say "60 to 70% losses" (not 80), and they also say "Over the past decade, annual losses have typically ranged between 40 and 50%.", so it is probably worrying but not as much as the CBS article was making it seem.
This story is about domesticated honeybees, which have been declining for decades due to Colony Collapse Disorder and other stressors. Native North American bees are in their own long-term decline, with 1 in 4 species at risk of extinction. However, domesticated honeybees are tremendously important for the pollination and yield of many crops important to humans, and this population drop, thought to be the largest annual losses seen, should be considered in the context of the longer decline, and the possibility that we could hit a tipping point when pollination, and a crucial pillar of our food system, could fail.
so worry but not panicking yet. gotcha, nothing will be done then.
I don't know whether you were satiric or not, but it feels like it, hard to tell on a text medium. No hard feelings either way ๐
If you were "mocking my post in a satiric way": I didn't mean to say that nothing should be done or that it was not a reason to worry. I actually believe we should protect our ecosystems, but I think we need accurate data and this kind of posts, even if they convey the "right" message according to me, are misleading and create false information about what is going on. I truly believe we should try to avoid doing this.
Part of the panicking should be wild bees. They're dying at accelerated rates.
We also know why, commercial bee keeping is part of it, as is hobbies bee keeping.
And pesticides.. and monoculture farming.
Maybe if Monsanto can cross a Bee with a mosquito and release it into the wild, maybe things will be better? Maybe said mosquito will not mate with a Japanese killer wasp in an unfortunate twist of events?
Old age probably.
Winter?
That's $15 billion worth of crops.
They just can't break out of that frame, even when the topic is EVERY LIVING THING FUCKING STARVING TO DEATH.
Think of the shareholders!
We could always eat the rich.
The inherent problem with that is how few there are. Don't get me wrong--yes, let's do that, too.
It's a good starting point. I have a feeling a lot of other solutions will become possible after that step.
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But also
"there are now an all-time high number of honeybee colonies in the US โ 3.8m, around 1m more than five years previously."
According to the guardian
This is why we're doomed.
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