Hobbyist beekeepers are buzzing after reversing America's critical bee shortage in just 5 years
Hobbyist beekeepers are buzzing after reversing America's critical bee shortage in just 5 years
Article (from earlier this year):
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hobbyist-beekeepers-buzzing-reversing-america-212213119.html
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This is actually not a good thing.
For one, Honeybees disrupt the structure and functionality of plant-pollinator networks, and they are nowhere near the type of pollinator we actually need (i.e. native, wild pollinators that thrive outside artificial colonies created to benefit humans).
There's no balance if we only increase populations of honeybees. "Raising nonnatives does not “save the bees”—and may harm them."
The article (the Yahoo one linked in the OP) does cover the detriments of these domestic bee colonies, but right at the end of the article...
The David Suzuki Foundation has a write-up on this topic, if anyone's interested.
Come to uplifting news! We turn news that seems good and still make you feel horrible!
Can we please just celebrate partial wins? Please?
This isn't uplifting or a partial win, you cannot combat an ecological disaster with another ecological disaster. Its like releasing a ton of wild cats into the wild, great for the cats not great for anything else.
I'd be happy to see cats everywhere. At least until the barren wasteland they'd cause claims me as well.
I vote for that apawcolypse
But this is not a win. It's not a partial win either. It's like saying we saved wildlife because we bred cows.
There is no partial win at all.
Sure, when there's one we will celebrate it
This is why I did a 180 on getting hives.
Honey is nice, but driving out the bumbles around here would be criminal.
It's about pollinating not about bees. Basically it's the only direct thing we can do to increase pollinators.
Sure u can plant...if u own.