Wild honeybees now officially listed as endangered in the EU

https://theconversation.com/wild-honeybees-now-officially-listed-as-endangered-in-the-eu-267239

by Disastrous_Award_789

13 comments

  4. Sad news.

    I once got Anise Hyssop seeds from a local supermarket, planted them a few years ago on my balcony. Every spring and summer they pop up and bees and moths seems to like them. So I’m doing my part to help them!

    Edit: spelling

  5. Look at most gardens or cities and you will understand. Everyone wants only easy to maintain plants and flowers in their garden, but most of them have close-to-zero benefits for insects. At the same time, people want more and more parking spaces.

    It hurts to see the city you grew up in, slowly turning into concrete, steel and asphalt..
    This year, I only saw a handful of butterflies and bees.

  7. That’s what happens when you cut down all the forests and use all the available land for agriculture, not letting anything stay wild.

  8. I bet a beer the article did shite research and it should be wild bees not wild honey bees 🐝

  9. While bad, if they do die off in an area, they can, in theory, be replaced by domestic honeybees for pollination. Not great, but it’s pretty close to the best-case scenario for a wild species extinction, having a near-identical alternative.

    They aren’t the only pollinators, though. There’s so many other insect species (and the occasional spider or small bird) that work as pollinators for flowers, some of which rely on a small selection of pollinators. If their numbers dwindle, too, biodiversity will drop like a rock.

  10. Black Mirror as an episode where robotic drone bees are released everywhere after natural bees die out.

  11. My wife grows flowers out in the yard — like both potted flowers and also a scattering of wild flowers. The other day I caught myself complaining about how we need to grow more robust plants (we live in a dessert), and then realized: she’s feeding the bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds.

    I love her.

  13. Fuck man

    Here i am desperately growing native flowering plants and my fucking neighbour sprays poison on his bloody gravel patch. I don’t know how to fix this shit

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