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All insect populations are in drastic decline everywhere. Everywhere we have records and have compared them to recent counts, they are in the region of 50% or m

by dflock 5y ago

All insect populations are in drastic decline everywhere. Everywhere we have records and have compared them to recent counts, they are in the region of 50% or more down since the 70's. Bee's are slightly more complex because we keep large numbers of certain bee species as livestock, but I haven't seen anything to indicate that wild bee's are somehow exempt from the general collapse of insect life.

lostlogin 5y ago
> All insect populations are in drastic decline everywhere. bees are indeed more complex, and in some places the populations are increasing due to high stocking of hives. https://www.airborne.co.nz/pages/bee-keeping-statistics-new-zealand https://www.airborne.co.nz/pages/bee-keeping-statistics-new-...
drewm1980 5y ago
Native bee species are indeed in decline, and domesticated bees certainly are not helping. At best they're competition. Ran into that while deciding whether or not to keep eating honey after I went vegan. Biased source: https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/food/is-honey-vegan-the-not-so-sweet-truth/ https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/food/is-honey-vegan-the... Trace their sources, and you end up on EU publications: https://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/conservation/species/redlist/downloads/European_bees.pdf https://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/conservation/species... And the IUCN red list https://www.iucnredlist.org/ https://www.iucnredlist.org/ About 1/10 of the EU's bee species are red listed.