#Colony Collapse Disorder

[bootleg-nessie]

Colony collapse disorder is a hoax. The bees are all dying because that fucker Burt keeps grinding them up to put in chapstick

[custardfist]

𝑭𝑳𝑶𝑹𝑰𝑫𝑨 𝑾𝑶𝑴𝑨𝑵 𝑩𝑬𝑬 𝑩𝑼𝒁𝒁𝑰𝑵’ 🐝🌸

[mumblelard]

rita or not today, monday

[bumblebeeappletree]

Honeybees are the world’s most important pollinators, but their population is on the decline — here’s how one Bay Area teen discovered a way to repair the effects of pesticides on honeybees😮🐝

#Bee #Earth #Environment #ClimateCrisis #NowThis

[macaron-tea-party]

Student’s research in bee memory discovers possible treatment for colony collapse disorder

[vaguegrant]

This is wild, but also kinda wonderful:

The US has approved use of the world's first vaccine for honey bees. It was engineered to prevent fatalities from American foulbrood disease, a bacterial condition known to weaken colonies by attacking bee larvae. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved a conditional license for the vaccine this week, according to the biotech firm behind its development.

Colony Collapse Disorder is of course an enormous problem, and it's a problem with a lot of different causes. Pesticides, parasites, bacterial infections like the one described here, and other environmental factors all play into it. My kids' school has beehives, and one of them collapsed very suddenly not too long ago. So anything to start reversing the trend is a big step forward—though again, this is only one tiny step towards addressing a much larger and much more complex collection of issues affecting both kept and wild pollinators.

Still, and I can't stress this too strongly:

we are vaccinating bees and that's cool as fuck

[milkdongcomics]

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[alexmfrank]

The Bees

Laline Paull Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive. Living to accept, obey and serve, she is prepared to sacrifice everything for her beloved holy mother, the Queen. Yet Flora has talents that are not typical of her kin. And while mutant bees are usually instantly destroyed, Flora is reassigned to feed the newborns before…

[radiophd]

colony collapse disorder -- future wasteland

[fuckithomestead]

Vaccine for bees!

[july-19th-club]

another fun thing about elementary flavor sherlock holmes is the incredible single-minded pettiness that he exhibits whenever someone he meets has the wrong bee opinions

[gl1tchxr]

this is the context for the necromancer poll: a bug/dark type Vespiquen!

instead of farming her own honey, this variant of Vespiquen commands an army of undead Combee to raid the hives of Sinnohian Vespiquen.

[oliveroctavius]

I'm having like a fit laughing at the tiny murder drones to hunt and kill beewolves with explosives they could not have designed something funnier to me personally if they tried

[mumblelard]

i must have had a heavy hand with the scoop when i was making coffee this morning because my head was starting to beep

a magical christmas village is a secret horror movie about a young witch's latent powers manifesting after she encounters a cursed toy in the shape of her hometown. unawares, she coerces her powerless mother into a relationship with an itinerant stranger. it's the darkest countdown movie so far this year

i am going to release the bob's back into the wild later this week. the two of them together got very judgemental. i know i need to be open to outside perspectives, but they were just too much

i only made it as far as the underpass today. i sat on a bench and listened to the roar from above and it was hard to leave

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Xerces Society: Announcing The State Of The Bees Initiative: Our Plan To Study Every Wild Bee Species In The U.S.

This is really exciting news! For those unaware, the Xerces Society has been focusing on invertebrate conservation for over fifty years, and has pioneered a lot of the work to bring awareness to the devastating losses of not only insects but other terrestrial and aquatic invertebrates. It gets its name from the Xerces blue butterfly (Glaucopsyche xerces), the first North American butterfly driven to extinction by human activities.

Even if you haven't heard of the Xerces Society, you've probably come across various "Save the Bees!" campaigns. These frequently focus on the domesticated European honey bee (Apis mellifera), which, while it may be important to crop pollination in many parts of the world, is not a part of natural ecosystems in places like the Americas and Australia, and can be considered an invasive species at times. With the rise of colony collapse disorder (CCD) particularly after the turn of the 21st century, where entire domestic honeybee colonies would die off, the need to preserve bees began to gain wider public acknowledgement.

But what many people don't realize is that it is the thousands upon thousands of other native bee species worldwide that are in greater danger of extinction. They don't have armies of beekeepers giving them safe places to live and treating them for diseases and parasites. More importantly, where honey bees may visit a wide variety of plants, native bees often have a much narrower series of species they visit, and they are quite vulnerable to habitat loss. Most bees are not as social as honey bees and live solitary lives, unseen by the casual observer.

Invertebrates in general often suffer from a lack of conservation information, meaning that particularly vulnerable species may fly under the radar and risk going extinct without anyone realizing until it's too late. This ambitious program by the Xerces Society aims to solve that problem, at least for the 3,600+ species of bee in the United States. If they can assign a conservation status to each one, then that strengthens the argument toward protecting their wild habitats and working to increase their numbers. Hopefully it will also prompt more attention to other under-studied species that are in danger of going extinct simply because we don't know enough about them.

[beefcakekinard]

buck obviously would rule at trivia but the more drunk he gets, the more tactile + distractible - so by the end of the night, he's basically draped over tommy like a blanket, rambling into his ear about colony collapse disorder