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.
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
There is probably lots of things effecting the bee population. Maybe it’s time to look for alternatives and create reservations to insure the bees survival.
Or we could put all our eggs in one basket. It’s not like all the baskets of eggs aren’t going into a truck and driven off a cliff, when talking climate change.
Wild bees or farmed bees?
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.
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.
I think Black Mirror came up with a solution of sorts to this.
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.
Just keep using Roundup, nothing to see here, move along.
ATC cuts are taking their toll on all flying craft.
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.
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?
Neonicotinoids also bioaccumulate and are responsible for declining numbers of insectivore birds. This results in a viscous circle leading to the use of more Neonicotinoids.
Curiously enough, the dolphins had long known of the impending demolition of Earth and had made many attempts to alert mankind to the danger. But most of their communications were misinterpreted as amusing attempts to punch footballs, or whistle for titbits, so they eventually gave up and left the Earth by their own means - shortly before the Vogons arrived. The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double backwards somersault through a hoop, whilst whistling the ‘Star-Spangled Banner’. But, in fact, the message was this “So long and thanks for all the fish”.
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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.
What about the other beekeepers
We all know there is only one beekeeper…
Morgan Freeman?
Oh wow, are we geting a Black Mirror Killer Bee timeline? Just wonderful 🫠
who needs eggs or honey if you can have rollingcoal and chaosfacism?
I now eat even more meat, so the vegans don’t win.
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mike judge is a prophet
