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A dead deer found on the side of the road in Pennsylvania has more biomass.
by sageikosa 13y ago
A dead deer found on the side of the road in Pennsylvania has more biomass.
- hnriot 13y agobut not impact on future food supply.
- sageikosa 13y agoSince they were most likely killed by a pesticide, it's not an epidemic, and the remaining bees can make more, just like the remaining deer can make more, and the remaining rabbits can always make more rabbits.
- sliverstorm 13y agoDeer don't pollinate flowers.
- run4yourlives 13y agoIf a deer walked though a field it would stand to reason that it would encourage pollination. Bees are some of the best pollinators, but they aren't exclusive in this regard.
- sliverstorm 13y agoWell, it's a good thing fruit grows at ground-level then, where deer can pollinate it.
- run4yourlives 13y agoActually, most of the things that honey bees are critical in pollinating grow closer to the ground.
- sageikosa 13y ago25000 bees are a minute fraction of the worldwide total. One deer is a minute fraction of the worldwide total, I'd assert their impact is on the same order of magnitude. Can we all stop examining local news and panicking globally? If you started finding lots of deer dead in the woods, I might be concerned; on the side of the road, not so much. If you started finding bees dead in their hive (which does happen, but not in this case), I might be concerned; finding them dead by bee toxic trees that have been recently sprayed with insecticide, not so much.
- sliverstorm 13y agoCan we all stop examining local news and panicking globally? Am I coming across as panicky? I don't really see that... I'm just pointing out that deer don't have the same keystone role in large ecosystems as major pollinators.
- sageikosa 13y agoMy point has been and continues to be that the 25000 bees of the referenced story are not indicative of a major catastrophe, they are indicative of a local anomaly.