well if that is the case, humans can take pollinator job roles when AI will take their excel jobs.

Imma go out on a limb here and blame late stage Capitalism and some sort of pesticide or whatever that could solve the problem if it costed 5 cents more but the solution is to save that money and let the bees die.

Imma take my chances on that.

This doesn't say 80% of the bees have died.

I was worried so I looked for the source of the information, it seems to be from 'Washington State University" from their website they say it concerns "Commercial honey bee colony", so it might not be all bees (I don't know enough to say what the difference is exactly), they say "60 to 70% losses" (not 80), and they also say "Over the past decade, annual losses have typically ranged between 40 and 50%.", so it is probably worrying but not as much as the CBS article was making it seem.

Source: https://news.wsu.edu/news/2025/03/25/honey-bee-colony-declines-grow-as-wsu-researchers-work-to-fight-losses/

At least i saved one from my dogs water bowl yesterday 🤷‍♀️

That's $15 billion worth of crops.

They just can't break out of that frame, even when the topic is EVERY LIVING THING FUCKING STARVING TO DEATH.

Want to help? Plant pollinator gardens. Easy peasy. Even some pots of local wildflowers on your patio. It all helps.

Bees have been under assault for a while.

It's hive mites. The Varroa mite is going to wipe out all bees from the planet. And there's not a damn thing we can do about it.

Source: talked to a beekeeper.

I can't find any research on the impact of increased prevalence of vaping on bee populations. I feel there should be scientific studies done on this. It's pretty much sweet smelling sticky bee poison that people are now walking about puffing all over every surface.

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

We're pretty sure it's the Monsanto pesticide and anyone who suggests it is hit with a litigation threat. Curiously, as we're speed-breeding domesticated bees the wild bees are dying out faster, so as the bee population dwindles it also becomes more domesticated and less wild. I know that's a bad thing, but I am fuzzy on the why details.

I'm a brown thumb, and plants wilt as my shadow falls on them, but if you're a green-thumb, plant pollinators, which will help the bees.

Also plant milkweed for the monarchs.

Imagine when we find out bees were the only thing holding it all together.

Aaaaand, it's over.

Probably the same reason we had 40+ tornadoes, huge hailstorms, floods, and drought-enabled wildfires in six adjacent states within 48 hours. Anthropogenic climate change is real, whether you believe in it or not.

The upside is now farmers won’t have to worry about what to do with the crop surplus from trade wars, dismantled USAID, and defunded school lunch program.

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Have you tried persecuting all the scientists yet??

The longer I live the more I see modern civilization collapse inevitable and happening in the relatively near future.

How the fuck do you even prepare for something like that?

Thanks for researching this! Still not good news for bees 🐝 😪

honeybees are an invasive species, fun fact

unfortunately they outcompeted a lot of the native pollinators so we're fucked without them though

I know it’s likely pesticides, but have we officially ruled out bee assassins?

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Sorry for getting all excited, it’s just we don’t have much time.

I definitely don't want to downplay a crisis, but I feel like I've been seeing headlines saying "all the bees are dying and we don't know why" every year for nearly 20 years now.

I'm no bee expert. Just seems to me, based on the headlines, bees would've been extinct 10 years ago.

Some cursory searching led me to Colony Collapse Disorder which seems to have no agreed-upon cause. It appears devastating losses to honey bee colonies started being reported around 1900. But it also mentions:

In 2024, the United States Census of Agriculture reported an all-time high in commercial honey bee hives (mostly in Texas), making them the fastest-growing livestock segment in the country.[38]

Link to the source cited there: https://archive.is/nfeb2

Apparently last year saw the largest honey bee populations in US history. Though they write that huge boom in honey bee population is a threat to other native pollinators, so I guess that presents its own unique problems.

Shame. The US is a beautiful country and psycho cult rednecks have let deregulation ruin such beautiful wilderness.

Actual link for those interested

Pesticides, same as always.

It’s because of shareholder profit

Bees live less than two months, so if only 80% of bees died in the last 8 months that would suggest a sharp recent population increase. And even if you take it as read that it means bees dying and not being replaced, 8 months is still a terrible timeframe to use because it's literally saying "there are 80% fewer bees now, at the tail end of winter, than there were at the height of bee season".

I'm not saying there isn't a bee crisis, just that this factoid is very badly worded.