It’s not the same pesticides year over year. My bet is some MBA pushed a tweaked the formula for short term gains.
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Redex68@lemmy.world 1 month agoI’m not too up to date with this story, but haven’t pesticides been used for forever now? Why would the suddenly cause a 80% drop in population?
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thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
neonicotinoids were invited in the 1980s and it’s been recently understood that it’s like a forever chemical. it will get into the dirt and go through the plants and pass on through pollen
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Different pesticides?
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I think bee populations are under threat from pesticides, habitat reduction, disease, climate change, nutrition, et cetera.
Of that list, pesticides are probably the easiest to solve.