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[-] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago

The bees are dying because of neonicatinoids in RoundUp presticides.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago

Yes, neonicotonoids probably kill bees.

But if we want to be taken seriously, we need to be knowledgeable about the subject. Neonicotonoids are a class of insecticides. Roundup is a herbicide (glyphosate). They can both be bad, but they are bad in different ways.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago
[-] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago

And the lack of dead leaf cover over winter.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

We’ve stopped mulching at the end of the year. We let the leaves fall and stay. In the spring we wait a long time until the grass is quite long.

Loose the bees and things will get bad, quickly.

We replaced our grass with clover as the bees like the flowers.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Chuck some creeping thyme into it also and some creeping camomile.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Both are factors

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