Save the bees, one hive at a time

[PHC1]

Last year alone, we lost 40% of the beehives and the bee population is dying rapidly. We will be royally screwed in a very short amount of time... Food shortages across the globe and economic collapse that will follow will be just the beginning.

I am very surprised that this is not getting the serious attention it deserves as this will impact everyone across the globe. The bees pollinate much of our food and without them we will be in deep, deep trouble. Bees pollinate at least $15 Billion worth of crops in the US alone each year.

[PHC1]

Save the bees, one hive at a time!

Bees are dying off in record numbers, but ecologist Noah Wilson-Rich is interested in something else: Where are bees healthy and thriving? To find out, he recruited citizen scientists across the US to set up beehives in their backyards, gardens and rooftops. Learn how these little data factories are changing what we know about the habitats bees need to thrive -- and keep our future food systems stable.

https://youtu.be/WlFsUeYzezk

[PHC1]

Honeybees have thrived for 50 million years, each colony 40 to 50,000 individuals coordinated in amazing harmony. So why, starting in 2006 did colonies start dying en masse? Marla Spivak reveals four reasons which are interacting with tragic consequences. This is not simply a problem because bees pollinate a third of the world's crops. Could this incredible species be holding up a mirror for us?


https://youtu.be/dY7iATJVCso

[Poppyhome]

Let's see all the facts first without the bias against Bayer.

Ron

[JBT]

quick google search turns up this



http://www.panna.org/blog/bayer-regr...nic-harms-bees

[Poppyhome]

Originally Posted by JBT

quick google search turns up this



http://www.panna.org/blog/bayer-regr...nic-harms-bees

An April Fools joke you post.

Ron

[PHC1]

‘The windscreen phenomenon’ - why your car is no longer covered in dead insects

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/...-dead-insects/

[PHC1]

Bee-harming pesticides will be totally banned in the UK

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ael-gove-says/

[PHC1]

France becomes first country in Europe to ban all five pesticides killing bees

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...-killing-bees/

[Poppyhome]

Another side —

The Bee Apocalypse Was Never Real; Here's Why

If you were concerned after reading a sentence like “Populations of honeybees have crashed in recent years, and many researchers have pointed the blame at a class of widely used insecticides called neonicotinoids,” you are not alone. That’s how an otherwise excellent article in The Scientist summarizing a recent USDA study on honeybees’ molecular responses to neonicotinoids began.

But you needn't be. The narrative that honeybees, which are actually not even native to North America, Europe or Australia, face mortal danger and will take us down with them has been advanced by environmental groups for years and echoed in media, casual blogs and mainstream science sites. This twist on the news is so pervasive that it’s often accepted without question: bee populations are rapidly declining as a result of pesticide use, particularly the use of neonics, and the crucial pollinators could be edging towards extinction, plunging our entire food system into chaos.

"Declining honeybee population could spell trouble for some crops," blared a headline on Fox News last year.
"Death and Extinction of the Bees," was the banner claim on the activist Centre for Research on Globalization.
"Honey Bees in a Struggle for Survival," claimed a guest columnist writing earlier this month for a Tennessee newspaper.
The only problem is that it isn’t true.

Myth of Honeybee decline

Honeybee populations haven’t “crashed” in the United States or elsewhere. Honeybees are not going "extinct." Crops are not "in trouble."
https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/04/17...eres-why-12851


Ron