Beekeepers across the country are sounding the alarm as honey bee populations are dwindling at an unprecedented rate, a trend that could impact Americans' wallets at the grocery checkout line. - ThreadSky

nbcnews.com • 3 days ago

Beekeepers across the country are sounding the alarm as honey bee populations are dwindling at an unprecedented rate, a trend that could impact Americans' wallets at the grocery checkout line.

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matthewnt.bsky.social•3 days ago

🤦🏻‍♂️ We can do better, humanity! Stop killing everything.

ferretslave.bsky.social•3 days ago

Texans - it's illegal to mow Bluebonnets so get them in your wildflower mix and plant now. Big rain tonight. Feed the bees please.

rogersparkman.bsky.social•3 days ago

A trend that could lead to the extinction of Homo Sapiens, as 80% of our food crops require honey bees for their pollination. Bees die out, so do we.

madre-y-abuela.bsky.social•3 days ago

IMPEACH Trump the traitor to our allies, our country and our constitution. Also DEPORT Trump’s rump-Elon.

moderately-grouchy.bsky.social•3 days ago

They are not a native species ... maybe their time has come and the bumblebees are going to take over.

catguts.bsky.social•3 days ago

ALL bees and other pollinators are in disastrous decline. I can not even tell you how bad this is for human survival prospects. This, even more than the horrors of the fascism, war, and climate chaos, WILL be the death blow to our species. 😞

waterloo45.bsky.social•3 days ago

America can eat coal

patricialicious.bsky.social•3 days ago

https://arboretum.ucdavis.edu/potted-plants-pollinators

patricialicious.bsky.social•3 days ago

This should be the top headline on every news site.

dan-steely.bsky.social•3 days ago

I have experienced this firsthand. I walk to work every day, and I used to be stung by 6-7 bees per day. Now I am lucky to be stung by 2-3.

citizenkane1.bsky.social•2 days ago

Aside from the time I stole that jar of honey from Christopher Robbin…tell us why it is important to our ecosystem.

kbax.bsky.social•2 days ago

2nd paragraph.

merri24.bsky.social•3 days ago

If only we had nationally renowned scientists to start studying this… But thanks to the current regime everybody’s been fired.

pp285.bsky.social•2 days ago

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alenjay2.bsky.social•3 days ago

While the CORRUPT, CONTROLLING OIL AND GAS ⛽️ INDUSTRIES continue to thrive 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

adb11.bsky.social•3 days ago

Just like monarch butterflies! 😔

hellishchildren.bsky.social•3 days ago

2016
I'll never forget. There was a video of a man scooping them up and tossing them in the air like autumn leaves.

adb11.bsky.social•3 days ago

Love monarchs, I help them every year but have watched their numbers dwindle in my own backyard. 😭

stereoreveries.bsky.social•3 days ago

kevlarunicorn.bsky.social•3 days ago

Also, that whole thing about destroying our food production since honeybees pollinate more than 400 different crop plants.

goobyooh.bsky.social•3 days ago

Can we start pulling back on the almond industry yet? I read in another article that some of the decline happened during the mass migration for almond pollination. Those damn nuts have such a huge environmental impact.

kevlarunicorn.bsky.social•3 days ago

This. I love almonds, and I have given them up in the hopes of helping our little honey buddies survive.

humbledadgames.bsky.social•2 days ago

Love my lil honey bee buddies
I've always got seasonal flowering bushes because I like seeing em buzz about... They do Soo much work for Soo little in return 🥲

I also can't handle dairy so I've switched over to oat milk.......
Me n my Gerd bros all hate that gritty almond milk 😤🤜🤛

pinkie-dawn.bsky.social•3 days ago

Aren't these bees an invasive species for native bees in the U.S.?

goobyooh.bsky.social•3 days ago

Solidarity!

scruffylookinveg.bsky.social•3 days ago

Uh. How about stop “bee keeping”. Humans sick desire for bee vomit needs to end.

Then humans need to stop spraying their yards with chemicals all in the name of visual pleasing yards that are completely artificial.

Let bees and insects live to pollinate.