RE: 'Helpful' Pesticides May Hurt Bees Instead of Helping Them

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'Helpful' Pesticides May Hurt Bees Instead of Helping Them

in science •  8 years ago 

We definitely need to explore this problem in depth because if the bees will go extinct then humanity will follow soon...

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At the moment there is no risk of that happening any time soon.

Industrial beekeeping techniques (like splitting hives during the off-season, industrial production of queens, etc,...) are capable of replacing all the lost colonies on a yearly basis. It is however driving up the price of pollination.

And ofcourse, if the problem would turn worse, a time will come when we can't keep up with the rate of bees dying off, at which time things will become dire indeed.