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Honeybee decline? Nope. Pseudo-science.
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First the polar bears are OK, now the bees? What are they going to do?
They still don't know what caused the colony collapses though. And while I have not read the whole article, I read one a while back that said the decline was not in agricultural colonies as much as very specific wild species most of which are not in CONUS.
They still don't know what caused the colony collapses though. And while I have not read the whole article, I read one a while back that said the decline was not in agricultural colonies as much as very specific wild species most of which are not in CONUS.
From @JT 's link:
"The scientists who glommed onto the “bee-pocalypse” narrative never bothered to go back and correct the record. As we’ll see in the next installment, they simply swapped out crises, jettisoning honeybees for claims that it was actually wild bees that were facing extinction, and then moving on to claims that all insect species will soon die out – because, of course, of neonicotinoid pesticides."
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Probably fire whoever let this out, like they did with the bears.
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Not to mention virtually harmless to mammals. The only claim of harm was that it was thinning the walls of condor eggs which were endangered.
Which led to a movement and a book called silent spring which claimed all birds would be extinct if the label wasn’t pulled.
10 years after its removal it was proven that the condor egg thinning was cyclical and had nothing to do with DDT runoff. But of course the label was never reinstated.
And how many Africans dies from malaria in the mean time? Marxism is a death cult and environmentalism is just another branch of it.
Most insect pests became resistant to DDT. Roaches actually started eating the stuff. And it really put a hurt on birds, especially raptors, as it thinned their egg shells. The birds would crush them when they tried to incubate. Once it was banned they rebounded. The Bald Eagle, Brown Pelican, and Bluebird populations crashed and many species were listed. Now once more they are quite common.
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Lol. Were y'all typing at the same time?
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Someone drank the Koolaid. Lol
IIRC DDT also nearly had Bedbugs extinct as it was the one pesticide that would kill them.. They rebounded quite well also.
Don't know the specifics of the claims but I do know I don't have near the bees that once graced my land. Every spring any polinating done is by me, the bees I saw this year I could count on the fingers of my hands.
The trick to seeing bees is planting stuff they like. I don't have a green manicured yard. So early on, lots of bees on the early clover. The year I planted Hairy Vetch as a cover in the garden we had tons of bees around. Without some sort of flower mixed in the garden, and one bees actually like, they just are not really attracted to garden plants. But bring them in with flowers they like, and they will end up in the garden.