Again? I don't recall them stopping disappearing, whenever I hear about the situation it always seems worse...
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The situation was improving from what i remember reading a couple of years ago but then i heard nothing about it until now
Probably because Trump unbanned neonicotinoids.
Also think about the mass dying of virtually all insects and pollinators. Not just bees.
Yeah. I remember people talking about how in the 1950s you’d go for a drive in the country during the summer and your car’s windshield would be completely covered in bugs. It was like a rainstorm there were so many. Now you can drive through those same areas and not even get a single bug hitting your windshield.
Yupp. In Germany alone within 26 years a decline of about 75 % has been observed. (Lazy Wikipedia link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations ).
This is really scary.
Same in the Canadian prairies where I grew up. Even into the 70's driving around my grandpa's farm was like that. Ladybugs and flies and grasshoppers were all over the place.
It's no wonder we're losing birds by the billions 'cause there's nothing for them to eat.
They’re leaving the country before ICE arrests them
Could we please just say that bees are dying? When you say disappearing it makes it sound like a conspiracy, which it isn't. The CIA has not partnered with bigfoot to kidnap the bees as part of a secret operation in the time war...
It's not a conspiracy, they're dying probably because of something we're putting into the environment. And by "we", I mean most likely the agriculture industry operating perfectly legally under current law. I specified "legally" to point out that it's not the fault of farmers, they're just doing their job, the problem is that we're not regulating the use of chemicals carefully enough - and that is our fault.
And all that is to say, can we please just call this what it is?
We are the extinction event
Maybe .... But I'm doing my part, my three hives (situated in the Nordics) look better than ever.
Keep in mind that not all bees are native everywhere. Most notably, the European Honeybee is the most commonly farmed but not native to the Americas. It may be native to the Nordics though.
*honeybees
Native bees are more important for pollination. A Mason or leafcutter bee can do 300x the pollination that a honey bee can.
Monsanto must be testing new lead tooth paste.
It's due to pesticides and mismanaged hives from big Ag. Btw, I learned that some beekeepers would feed high fructose corn syrup to the bees, and a chemical that can form in that junk can kill them.
Why would you feed bees anything? Just plant shit around them and they'll feed themselves. It's the easiest form of animal husbandry!
They use them to pollinate monoculture crops, then relocate them, and feed them sugar to produce honey. They are just another resource that big Ag mismanages.
Yeah, they're in transport trucks in South America, remember?
Where I live we have a problem with an invasive species, European wall lizards, and they eat so many bees
I read something about colony collapse when temperatures get above something. We aren't that warm yet I think, but the bees just pretty much stop at like 60C iirc
I've noticed a lot of dead bees on the ground in the past few months. I figured that it's a good thing and that I'm seeing more dead ones because there are more active ones overall.