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> but I haven't heard any serious discussion of honeybees going extinct. In Europe it is..in fact it was the main-theme 3 years ago. And not just bees but inse
by nix23 6y ago
> but I haven't heard any serious discussion of honeybees going extinct.
In Europe it is..in fact it was the main-theme 3 years ago. And not just bees but insects overall...the honeybee was just the friendly looking ambassador for that message.
- lostlogin 6y agoThe number of hives in New Zealand has roughly doubled in 5 years - so much so that overstocking is a huge problem. One small data point, but too many and too few are both bad. https://www.airborne.co.nz/pages/bee-keeping-statistics-new-zealand https://www.airborne.co.nz/pages/bee-keeping-statistics-new-...
- nix23 6y agoAgain it's NOT about just Honeybees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations