Posted on 07/09/2015 12:50:06 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
Bumblebees, a linchpin of the global food supply, are vanishing across huge swaths of North America and Europe as a result of climate change, a new study says.
The findings, published Thursday in the journal Science, apparently solve a mystery that's alarmed farmers, experts, policymakers and environmental advocates worldwide, as well as bedeviled researchers. While habitat destruction and potent pesticides known as neonicotinoids have destroyed some bumblebee populations, researchers concluded climate change has played the greatest role in the mass disappearance of bumblebee species, which pollinate plants and crops that are part of the food supply for both animals and humans.
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Seriously, bees are important pollinators, but not nearly as important as the fly. Or the ant for that matter.
Or the fact that the honey bee isn't even indigenous to North America. Guess the Indians didn't eat and buffalo didn't graze. More hocus pocus phooey spewed from the Marxist media and their merry band of "scientific" goons.
That’s funny, I always thought it was those pesticides we spray on our crops that was wiping out the bees.
Come on now. Stop distorting the picture with FACTS.
It’s the Republicans’ fault. (My suggestion: plant holly plants, and they will come by the thousands.)
In other words, without "climate change", this hippy doesn't have a job.
According to Global Warming scientists, there was supposed to be NO ice at the north polar starting this year.
Gee...I wonder how the dinosaurs survived for millions of years on all that plant life that couldn’t possibly have been pollinated by bees...because the climate was so much warmer back then...
BIG /S
Must’ve been pollinated by Cretaceous gremlins...
I have two raspberry bushes in my yard which I NEVER use pesticide on. The few bees that are left are always around it when it gets flowers.
They never move
Why can’t the yellow jackets disappear?
Actually I think the greatest threat to bees is the lack of small bee keepers and the rise of big traveling beekeepers which help to spread disease among bees.
I recently made a deal for a local beekeeper to put a couple of hives on my half acre. He’ll deal with them and I won’t disturb them.
I just saw a couple of honeybees out in the yard but I have to wonder how this cold wet weather affects them. There has been a lot of hard rain here this summer.
Anyone believing this global warming hooey is a moron.
The bees are being killed by pesticides, herbicides and invasive parasites (mites, molds, bacteria, etc.).
“Science” was once a fine peer reviewed publication, fast going the way of Scientific American.
Double face palm...
If the planet is warming....and some places are getting too hot for the bees...wouldn’t it follow that the bees would just follow the temperate zones as the moved farther north and south toward the poles? I mean, instead of just dying?
Same here. I don’t use pesticide on our dark knights and the bees are everywhere.
Actually, mites are killing the honey bees. Also, honey bees are not native to North America, there are all types of little and big bees that pollinate stuff. Honey bees are adapted to a European climate, which is similar, but not identical to North America, so when the run into problems, there numbers can fall precipitously. Native bees have protection built into their DNA. So it is no suprise that honey bees will jump up and down.
> Why can’t the yellow jackets disappear?
You don’t want the yellow jackets to disappear.
The guts of yellow jackets, wasps and hornets are the hosts for all of the fermentation yeasts on the planet. When the hornets and yellow jackets go out to feed on ripe apples, ripe grapes and other fruits and vegetables, they spread the yeasts to the item they land on. If they didn’t do this, you would not have wine, beer, bread or anything else that needs a fermentation process.
So, if you really want to get rid of bread,beer and wine, then continue hoping for the yellow jackets to go away.
And wasps!
This week, it is. Next month it will probably be wasp privilege.
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