• thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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    21 days ago

    it’s the European honey bee that’s dying in unprecedented numbers

    but it’s not all bees

    European honey bees are the easy button for farmers but they are going to have to decide if pesticide is more important or not

    this nobody knows what’s happening is bullshit provided by the likes of the Monsanto and other chemical companies

    • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      21 days ago

      They (save for a smarter minority) are 100% gonna decide that pesticides are more important. Until they learn they aren’t, but it will be too late.

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      20 days ago

      I’m not too up to date with this story, but haven’t pesticides been used for forever now? Why would the suddenly cause a 80% drop in population?

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        20 days ago

        I think bee populations are under threat from pesticides, habitat reduction, disease, climate change, nutrition, et cetera.

        Of that list, pesticides are probably the easiest to solve.

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        20 days ago

        It’s not the same pesticides year over year. My bet is some MBA pushed a tweak to the formula for short term gains.

        resist