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Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing — Colonies surged 15-fold (www.sciencedaily.com)
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Using CRISPR-Cas9, scientists engineered a yeast to produce the nutrient feed. Farmers could have it in two years.

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[–] 89 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Note for those passing through and not reading articles:

This is not a summary of the article, but OP's suggestion for a solution. The article talks about creating a yeast product that's lacking in bees' diet due to climate change and a lack of diversity in flowers.

OP suggests combatting the effects climate change has on biodiversity by planting your own diverse flowers. Which may work, or climate change may just kill those too.

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  • [–] 29 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I re call watching Clarkson's Farm and he was paid to grow wildflowers in one of the fields for these very reasons.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Yeah, the government subsidy for that was so high that it was more profitable than growing grain on the field (which is admittedly not hard, since he made a loss on his grain fields)

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