Bee Colony Collapse Is Overhyped
National Review | June 5, 2015
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/419391/bee-colony-collapse-is-overhyped-shawn-regan
Call off the bee-pocalypse: U.S. honeybee colonies hit a 20-year high
Washington Post | July 23, 2015
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/07/23/call-off-the-bee-pocalypse-u-s-honeybee-colonies-hit-a-20-year-high/
The bees widely relied on aren’t native to North America anyway.
I know many a liberal who still believes this.
Perhaps I should tell the beekeeper down the road that he doesn’t actually have any bees buzzing in his apiary.
Hummingbirds help with pollination as well.
It seems that migrating birds were not considered part of the eco-system when the ‘climatologists’ promoted those ugly wind farm killing machines as a ‘power source’.
The air turbulence they could have harnessed can be felt on all the high speed interstate highways. Just line the concrete highway dividers with turbines and figure it out.
p.s. Not an engineer - just a gran’ma;
And so another global warming-caused disaster is debunked.
I don’t buy it, where I live you used to see bee’s all the time, you literally can go a whole summer and barely see any. There is something going on and it’s big.
The comments below the article are amusing.
I use my yard as a small area of experimentation and have liked my results so far. My entire lot is just over 1 acre so the house and the driveway account for about 15% and the very back goes into a wetland so I let it stay natural, probably about 10%. Of the remaining 75%, about half of it is treated to maintain a smooth carpet of monoculture turf grass (Bermuda) to keep the neighbors happy. The other half gets no chemical assistance and only some water beyond rain. This area includes a significant patch of clover that gets a lot of attention from the various pollinators. The honeybees in the clover area have appeared to do well with this approach as I’ve noticed no decline in numbers.
Why should I believe anything contained in the Washington Post?
It is good to know what they are saying, but I can’t believe anything they write.
Yep! You should see all the bee crap on the side of my trailer!