Hundreds of millions of bees, almost 80% of bees in the US, have died over he past eight months. Researchers don't know why.
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Pesticides!
There muzzle that.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bee-deaths-food-supply-stability-honeybees/
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A big business where bee hives are hauled across states to pollinate crops.
https://www.freightwaves.com/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-honeybee-trucker
I do native gardening, 3 years ago there was a huge crash in bumble bees in my yard
The two years of recovery
This spring I’ve seen exactly one bumble bee
Normally, this is the time the first females come out from their over wintering
I’ve seen one
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/honeybees-deaths-record-high
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which is a terrible oversight.
Hello? Japanese Murder Hornets?
All you will see is a precipitate decline in their victims.
LIKE 80 percent PERHAPS?!
You see it would be easy to chalk up a mistake like this to a buggy (pardon the expression) samsung spellchecker.
But the truth is never easy. And I know these killer bee cousins are out to get me.
Potentially catastrophic.
But it gets lost in the political noise.
he’s deporting the migrants who harvest the food
he’s stopping food from going to the people who need it and letting it rot in ports
he’s taking away money that people need to buy food
he has fired scientists who could resolve the bee shortage. So why would we need bees anyway?
Stop lawn nonsense, stop the 'weed & feed' poison poured on the planet every year.
https://www.statista.com/chart/16960/percentage-decline-in-selected-global-insect-populations/
Human's are one of the species
I never thought I would miss them.
i have a willow in my garden, not sure if you can see it but the number of insects visiting it is amazing. (filmed this a short while ago)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hated_in_the_Nation
Beeznis is not so good in America right now.
I remember as a kid listening to the constant noise of honey bees in the garden. Now we lucky to see one a week.
We destroy biodiversity at our peril.
Did you know that lowly moths account for about 1/3 of all pollinator visits? I was quite surprised to learn that.
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Anyway, thank you for adding context! 🙏
This winter was very cold - maybe the reason for die-offs.
* Biological stressors
* Chemical stressors (pesticides)
* Environmental stressors
(Increases due to land use and climate change)
What might not be known is which cause contributes how much in this case.
https://elicit.com/review/f07ef8ce-a5f6-4ce1-9e83-f69882d12e28
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/honeybees-deaths-record-high
Political: Join your local Tesla Takedown protests. Defanging Musk/Trump has become a prerequisite for all environmental progress in the US.
Organise.
Challenge lies when you hear them.
I learned that European honey bees in hives are crucial to grain crops of European origin in the USA, Canada, Australia, as local pollinators aren't interested.
I recall from my visits (back in the '80s) that US lawns were uniform green, herbicide'd to monoculture. Bees need water, nectar, and good soil to thrive over winter. If your honey yields have been dropping too, look to the flowers?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/29/bees-boom-colony-collapse/
In all seriousness, there’s a lot of q’s about glyphosate, but it’s been used for so long we’d have seen the effects by now. Don’t get me wrong there’s def some nasty pesticides that are contributing, but it’s a bunch of factors. 1/
Fwiw This is all very interesting to me, and in my wheelhouse, I’m a PhD Ecotoxicologist that’s in the Agricultural Science.
no i can't not even in sarcasm it's too fucking awful
Non-bee pollinators too
They just can’t be conveniently trucked in
They bees knowing what is going on