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Why? Ticks are a disease vector and unlike bees their population is increasing due to milder winters.
by frgtpsswrdlame 7y ago
Why? Ticks are a disease vector and unlike bees their population is increasing due to milder winters.
- macawfish 7y agoSurely that's a factor, but habitat fragmentation and loss of biodiversity are also very important, and are directly related to the loss of bees. Killing "the disease vector" doesn't heal the root problem, which is rampant, culturally and economically endorsed destruction of ecological diversity and the environments that foster it. This is happening on multiple fronts, climate change being one of them. I agree with the poster who advocated chickens and possums... except that I'd go much further than just chickens and possums. We also need to dramatically rethink the way development happens. And further incentivize land rehabilitation and polyculture farming methods such as permaculture. https://www.caryinstitute.org/newsroom/biodiversity-impacts-lyme-disease https://www.caryinstitute.org/newsroom/biodiversity-impacts-... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3382467/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3382467/