Plight of the Bumblebee »
Posted By Ratskii 3 months, 1 week ago in NewsB ombus franklini , a North American bumblebee, was last seen on August 9, 2006. Professor Emeritus Robbin Thorp, an entomologist at UC Davis , was doing survey work on Mt. Ashland in Oregon when he saw a single worker on a flower, Sulphur eriogonum , near the Pacific Crest Trail. He had last seen the bee in 2003, roughly in the same area, where it had once been very common. “ August ninth,” Thorp says. “ I’ ve got that indelibly emblazoned in my mind.”
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epiphannyy3 months, 1 week ago
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I don't think most people quite grasp the significance of bees and their necessity to our food supply. We've actually seen an increase in bees where I live over the past year or so, but nothing like what it once was. It's kind of scary to think of a world without them. Do we even have a realistic pollinator "back-up" if the numbers can't be brought back?
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Leemck023 months, 1 week ago
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Keep on spraying because it saves the big farmers from tilling the soil and localized crop care, approved methods that will cost them less. We see fewer animals (rabbits, birds, cats, snakes,etc.) that once were plentiful.
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I posted an article on contaminants in the water killing people too. At least humans can argue the health care point, methods to sustain us after the damage is done. There is no recovery for the damage to these creatures reproductive or other systems that are affected too.
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