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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

This doesn't say 80% of the bees have died.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Pretty huge distinction

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Imma go out on a limb here and blame late stage Capitalism and some sort of pesticide or whatever that could solve the problem if it costed 5 cents more but the solution is to save that money and let the bees die.

Imma take my chances on that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Idk about others, but mine died due to temperatures not reaching above 27 for 14 days straight.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

there’s a crazy scene in the documentary More Than Honey where they compare beekeepers with US Almond Farm pollenators. It’s all about money and it’s sickening.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine when we find out bees were the only thing holding it all together.

Aaaaand, it's over.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

It's like nobody paid attention to bee movie.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Bees have been under assault for a while.

It's hive mites. The Varroa mite is going to wipe out all bees from the planet. And there's not a damn thing we can do about it.

Source: talked to a beekeeper.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

there’s a fungus that protects against the mites and it’s being researched. it’s genius, the bee picks up the fungus in a contraption where it has to crawl through to get to nectar and then brings it back to the hive. i read it in Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 hours ago

Want to help? Plant pollinator gardens. Easy peasy. Even some pots of local wildflowers on your patio. It all helps.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

It’s because of shareholder profit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Mortified, but I am not a bee-ologist.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I was worried so I looked for the source of the information, it seems to be from 'Washington State University" from their website they say it concerns "Commercial honey bee colony", so it might not be all bees (I don't know enough to say what the difference is exactly), they say "60 to 70% losses" (not 80), and they also say "Over the past decade, annual losses have typically ranged between 40 and 50%.", so it is probably worrying but not as much as the CBS article was making it seem.

Source: https://news.wsu.edu/news/2025/03/25/honey-bee-colony-declines-grow-as-wsu-researchers-work-to-fight-losses/

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

so worry but not panicking yet. gotcha, nothing will be done then.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago

Part of the panicking should be wild bees. They're dying at accelerated rates.

We also know why, commercial bee keeping is part of it, as is hobbies bee keeping.

And pesticides.. and monoculture farming.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

I don't know whether you were satiric or not, but it feels like it, hard to tell on a text medium. No hard feelings either way 😄

If you were "mocking my post in a satiric way": I didn't mean to say that nothing should be done or that it was not a reason to worry. I actually believe we should protect our ecosystems, but I think we need accurate data and this kind of posts, even if they convey the "right" message according to me, are misleading and create false information about what is going on. I truly believe we should try to avoid doing this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

This story is about domesticated honeybees, which have been declining for decades due to Colony Collapse Disorder and other stressors. Native North American bees are in their own long-term decline, with 1 in 4 species at risk of extinction. However, domesticated honeybees are tremendously important for the pollination and yield of many crops important to humans, and this population drop, thought to be the largest annual losses seen, should be considered in the context of the longer decline, and the possibility that we could hit a tipping point when pollination, and a crucial pillar of our food system, could fail.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

Honey bees aren’t even native to the US

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for researching this! Still not good news for bees 🐝 😪

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

This is bad news for every animal on land

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Specifically, honey bees (Apis mellifera). Native bees that aren’t colony dwellers may not be impacted the same by the mites.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Who cares then, aren't they only useful for monocropping large farms? Most US bee enthusiasts would instantly cull every honey bee if they could.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

"Only".

80% of crops grown in the US are pollinated by honey bees.. If you think grocery prices are bad now...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Personally, I care because I love honey, farm grown food, and they are a poster child for all bees. Without them, there is certainly a lot less care for native bees. While yes they are primarily important for large monocropped farms, that’s your food. Like, so much of your food. Natuu is very bee populations aren’t sufficient or interested in pollinating our food crops, so yes we should really care.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Why would the bee enthusiasts cull honey bees?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Because the aren't native, would be my guess

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That's really interesting and I'd love to read more

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Honeybees compete for resources with native bees and are much more efficient foragers, and it's hard to state the scope of impact they have had on native bee populations, but most believe it to be significant.

They were introduced to North America in the 1600s and then again, over repeated colonizations as colonizers were frustrated that native bees didn't produce honey. Native Americans called them "white man's flies".

Africanized honey bees were introduced from South America around the 1990s. Which are even more aggressive in their foraging and nature then their European cousins, although produce more honey.

Native bees are relatively docile and some variants lack the ability to sting at all.

Here is an article, or op ed about the problem: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-problem-with-honey-bees/

[–] [email protected] 61 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

That's $15 billion worth of crops.

They just can't break out of that frame, even when the topic is EVERY LIVING THING FUCKING STARVING TO DEATH.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

Think of the shareholders!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

We could always eat the rich.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Everybody says this. Nobody posts recipes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

They're hoarding all the wealth and are a rich source of vitamins and minerals

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago

Pesticides, same as always.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 hours ago

It's called winter.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago

Something about the birds and the bees ...

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