Summary
The U.S. beekeeping industry is experiencing unprecedented losses, with hundreds of millions of bees dying over the past eight months.
Blake Shook, a leading beekeeper, called it “the worst bee loss in recorded history.”
Researchers remain uncertain about the cause, pointing to potential factors like habitat changes and weather patterns.
Beekeeping operations are struggling to survive, raising concerns about food security and the sustainability of crop production.
Wild bees or farmed bees?
Doesn’t matter in my opinion when it comes to the western honeybee. They’re not native to the Americas. But they’re specifically citing beekeepers.
It’s the European honeybee no doubt. The native species may even do better with this loss, but it doesn’t fix the pollination issue for our food.
The native species may even do better with this loss
Not if the native species are also susceptible to the same cause of death. If that’s the case, the European honeybee deaths could be an indicator, correlated with the uncounted deaths of the native species.
ATC cuts are taking their toll on all flying craft.
On one hand I’m allergic to bees (not deadly but definitely dangerous for me), but on the other hand I kinda want the world to continue to have life on it… It’s a real struggle who I’m rooting for here.
Kidding kidding.
I think Black Mirror came up with a solution of sorts to this.
What about the other beekeepers
We all know there is only one beekeeper…
Morgan Freeman?
couldn’t be all the pesticide in over use?!
couldn’t be that these bee’s are invasive and not native to the land…
couldn’t be that diversity is actually fucking essential?
Millions of bees is not very many. That’s like one smallish operation.
I’m sure it’s actually a much bigger problem than the numbers they have.
Edit: ah I see now, the article says hundreds of millions of bees, and this post missed a couple words.
this post missed a couple words.
So did the article’s title
Honestly, It’s a pretty major fuck up. It makes the headline inaccurate by 2 orders of magnitude…
Cause a million bees is what… A dozen hives? I just googled it and it’s literally my body weight in bees. Which now that I’ve said it out loud, is sort of terrifying, but you know what I mean.
my body weight in bees. Which now that I’ve said it out loud, is sort of terrifying
Not sure I understand correctly, did you imagine your Body made out of bees? If so and if you like reading sci-fi you might enjoy Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Dogs of War.
If I saw his body-weight in bees walking down the sidewalk in a skin suit, I would high five him, no question.
Still technically millions. Could have said dozens, as in millions of dozens I suppose as well.
A few bees, as in 20 gazillion.
The Earth has moved.
Gray, aged bees moved chaotically, struggling to reconstruct the hive how only they remember, were taught to build.
The resulting patterns of squares, triangles, decahedrones was insane, and seeing this, Roland new, their hive won’t last.
Is that a Dark Tower reference?
Yup. One of my favorite little moments in the series. It just stirs you wrong that the best builders of our world can’t do this anymore.
I literally saw a dead bumble bee out on the pavement yesterday… soo not good…
Believe it or not, bees aren’t supposed to be immortal. Dead bees on random pavements are just sign that bees exist around somewhere.
Not good would be not finding anyone, drad or alive.
I got a call from a friend who had 20,000 beehives at the start of the winter, and he’s at less than 1,000. He said ‘This is it, I’m done.’
Maybe leave them their honey for the winter instead of taking it and replacing it with shitty sugar water?
It’s pretty obvious when your hive dies from starvation.
I lost my hives this year due to me being a newish beekeeper and some very aggressive yellow jackets doing too much damage to my hives…. before I intervened
We are the extinction event
Had quite a few arguments with climate change trivialising friends/relatives. The classic “the climate is always changing” and “earth has been warmer”… The one point that seems to stop at least some in their tracks was this:
You know I studied geosciences? Do you know what we call the periods in earths history where climate was changing as fast as it currently does? We call them global catastrophes and extinction events!
Yup. The wealthy have us fighting culture wars while they strip the planet.
I have come to the same conclusion. The realization comes with lots of fear and anxiety, but also a bit of peace. The earth has gone through many mass extinction events and recovered, so hopefully it will do the same after this. It is interesting that this extinction event is caused in part by a species living on it that can see what is going on, had opportunities to prevent/mitigate it, and chose not to.
Bees are such good pollinators that we can’t still decipher how they know how to travel so efficiently.
who needs eggs or honey if you can have rollingcoal and chaosfacism?
I now eat even more meat, so the vegans don’t win.
imdb tt0387808
mike judge is a prophet
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Just keep using Roundup, nothing to see here, move along.
