Bee Pollination Decline
Discussions center on honeybees' role in pollination, concerns about declining wild bee populations versus managed hives, beekeeping impacts, and alternatives like drones amid colony collapse fears.
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Bees seem to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9477747
This kind of makes sense for bees.
Think of the bees! Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41826380
The bees, they are killing the bees.
We trade with bees? I thought we just use them.
It's more like the bees are farmers tending their sustenance crop.
Does 2.8 billion honeybees help?
The bees you can breed are not the bees/pollinators that nature is losing. This is like suggesting that to counter the global collapse in birds, you should raise chickens… Worse, domestic bees are often competitors to wild bees, bumblebees, etc. The solution there lies in fighting against the use of broad-spectrum pesticides, planting hedgerows, allowing meadows to thrive, etc.
Can't the bees just drone 'em?
Feral honey bees may be thriving but native bees are collapsing.