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Bees have somebody watching out for them. The insects that have gone missing from our insect traps and windshields are still gone. http://www.sciencemag.org/ne

Bees have somebody watching out for them. The insects that have gone missing from our insect traps and windshields are still gone. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/where-have-all-insects-gone http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/where-have-all-insect...

vanattab 9y ago
The link is broken. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/where-have-all-insects-gone http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/where-have-all-insect...
- Noumenon72 9y ago
  Shucks, I noticed 4 minutes after you posted. Thanks.
rpenm 9y ago
People are worried about the wrong bees. Hundreds of native bee species are in decline - possibly due to pesticides and loss of habitat. An enormous number of plants - including many crops - are dependent on native bees for pollination.
- sametmax 9y ago
  Don't worry, the people selling you the products killing the bees will soon sell you a solution to pollinate your crop without bees.
  - amelius 9y ago
    Drones? That dystopian future is closer than we thought.
    - seszett 9y ago
      The sixth episode of the third season of Black Mirror has drones performing the jobs of bees. I think it's quite relevant to the general public of HN (like most Black Mirror episodes, actually).
chaoticmass 9y ago
Drive thru Oklahoma at night and you'll have a lot of bugs on your car. Though as I say that, I think about last time I went thru that state I didn't have as many bugs as I remember in the past....
- LostWanderer 9y ago
  Have the street cars and lamp-posts changed their lighting to LED?
  - Shivetya 9y ago
    anecdotal, having both LED and halogen exterior lights on the home I haven't seen any real difference in bug attraction. I did post a while back about how the recent change over of street lamps to LED in my neighborhood messed up the birds for awhile. I have a standard "orange" streetlamp between my lot and the next house and two LED on opposite sides of the street in both directions about three hundred feet down from the house. It is now like having a full moon all the time. Apparently when mounting LED replacements they get no hoods or other mechanisms to limit light spread
- JauntTrooper 9y ago
  Growing up on the East Coast, I remember thousands and thousands of fireflies dotted the tree line at dusk in the summer. The whole forest sparkled. Now when I go back home there are maybe a dozen flying around at a time.

vanattab 9y ago

The link is broken. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/where-have-all-insects-gone http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/where-have-all-insect...

Noumenon72 9y ago
Shucks, I noticed 4 minutes after you posted. Thanks.

rpenm 9y ago

People are worried about the wrong bees. Hundreds of native bee species are in decline - possibly due to pesticides and loss of habitat. An enormous number of plants - including many crops - are dependent on native bees for pollination.

sametmax 9y ago
Don't worry, the people selling you the products killing the bees will soon sell you a solution to pollinate your crop without bees.
- amelius 9y ago
  Drones? That dystopian future is closer than we thought.
  - seszett 9y ago
    The sixth episode of the third season of Black Mirror has drones performing the jobs of bees. I think it's quite relevant to the general public of HN (like most Black Mirror episodes, actually).

chaoticmass 9y ago

Drive thru Oklahoma at night and you'll have a lot of bugs on your car. Though as I say that, I think about last time I went thru that state I didn't have as many bugs as I remember in the past....

LostWanderer 9y ago
Have the street cars and lamp-posts changed their lighting to LED?
- Shivetya 9y ago
  anecdotal, having both LED and halogen exterior lights on the home I haven't seen any real difference in bug attraction. I did post a while back about how the recent change over of street lamps to LED in my neighborhood messed up the birds for awhile. I have a standard "orange" streetlamp between my lot and the next house and two LED on opposite sides of the street in both directions about three hundred feet down from the house. It is now like having a full moon all the time. Apparently when mounting LED replacements they get no hoods or other mechanisms to limit light spread
JauntTrooper 9y ago
Growing up on the East Coast, I remember thousands and thousands of fireflies dotted the tree line at dusk in the summer. The whole forest sparkled. Now when I go back home there are maybe a dozen flying around at a time.