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Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought – Quartz
As we’ve written before, the mysterious mass die-off of honey bees that pollinate $30 billion worth of crops in the US has so decimated America’s apis mellifera population that one bad winter could leave fields fallow. Now, a new study has pinpointed some of the probable causes of bee deaths and the rather scary results show that averting beemageddon will be much more difficult than previously thought.
Scientists had struggled to find the trigger for so-called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) that has wiped out an estimated 10 million beehives, worth $2 billion, over the past six years. Suspects have included pesticides, disease-bearing parasites and poor nutrition. But in a first-of-its-kind study published today in the journal PLOS ONE, scientists at the University of Maryland and the US Department of Agriculture have identified a witch’s brew of pesticides and fungicides contaminating pollen that bees collect to feed their hives. The findings break new ground on why large numbers of bees are dying though they do not identify the specific cause of CCD, where an entire beehive dies at once.
How long before we have conservative bee death deniers?
Conservatives respect bees--they at least have to work for the meal
They need to make up their mind - a year or two ago they reported the cause was a microscopic mite.
Is the parasite they reference the same thing that I'm remembering - meanng, they've found the source but are trying to figure out how to stop it?
The pesticides and fungicides lower the bees' resistance to infection caused by parasites and other critters.
Bees are socialists.
Well more like drones, tricked easily. :lol:
Bees are socialists.
Bees are socialists.
Bees are socialists.
Yep. I remember the great Marxbee revolution of the early 1900s where Beenin and Trotzbuzz overtook the great bee colony and installed socialism for the glory of all the worker bees.
Truthfully now...
Bees, like so many creatures in nature, are a dictatorship. Because nature is a dictatorship. The queen is the single most important element in the colony. Everyone else's life is meaningless compared to her. And even if she is a bad queen, her bees will follow her to hell and back.
While the nation's attention is fixed on royal births, hoodies, and Wiener's wiener, science is busy solving the problem that could cause the cost of food to soar and make some crops nearly impossible to grow.
While the nation's attention is fixed on royal births, hoodies, and Wiener's wiener, science is busy solving the problem that could cause the cost of food to soar and make some crops nearly impossible to grow.
I've read the latest research and it's a lot more conclusive than the microscoping mite theory of several years ago. There's no doubt about it, our GMO crops that innately produce pesticide are killing the bees while the intended target has gradually built resistance to it.
This is what happens when these careless corporations continue to mess with nature and think we can get away with it, all for the sake of profit and controlling the food system. If the bees die off, we are royally screwed. Say bye bye to all the benefits of the Green Revolution.
Call me skeptical, but unless you are a PhD scientist who specializes in bees and pesticides, I dont think you've read the latest studies and if you have, you didnt understand them. You've read media reports of the studies, probably.
I see little evidence that GMO produced pesticides are having a signficiant effect, the PLOS ONE paper doesnt show that. GMO's are banned in Europe, and bees are declining as fast as in the US. That points against it.
Its fun to just spout off random stuff about things you dont understand, but it generally tends to be a bad idea.
Call me skeptical, but unless you are a PhD scientist who specializes in bees and pesticides, I dont think you've read the latest studies and if you have, you didnt understand them. You've read media reports of the studies, probably.
I see little evidence that GMO produced pesticides
are having a signficiant effect, the PLOS ONE paper doesnt show that. GMO's are banned in Europe, and bees are declining as fast as in the US. That points against it.
Its fun to just spout off random stuff about things you dont understand, but it generally tends to be a bad idea.
Call me skeptical, but unless you are a PhD scientist who specializes in bees and pesticides, I dont think you've read the latest studies and if you have, you didnt understand them. You've read media reports of the studies, probably.
I see little evidence that GMO produced pesticides are having a signficiant effect, the PLOS ONE paper doesnt show that. GMO's are banned in Europe, and bees are declining as fast as in the US. That points against it.
Its fun to just spout off random stuff about things you dont understand, but it generally tends to be a bad idea.
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