Bees

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• Turun@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, the focus on bees is weird

  But it’s a proxy for protecting insects in general. If normal people caring about bees gets pesticide use reduced I am all for caring about bees.

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  • Thrashy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bees are basically an introduced domesticated animal outside of Europe. Other parts of the world have their own native pollinators that are at significantly greater risk than bees, which are heavily managed and extensively studied due to their agricultural importance. For all the popular alarm over Colony Collapse Disorder, bee colony populations have been basically stable for decades and certainly haven’t seen any measurable decline in recent years.

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    • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also, big numbers of honeybees can cause decline in local native bee species and other pollinators, which in turn can endanger rare native plant species.

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  laughs in native plant focused yard with all the insects welcome

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• Obonga@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  *Wild bees and other wild insects, NOT honeybees. Just want to put that out there because many people seem to be oblivious about that fact and think they help nature by eating more honey. Gold meme tho.

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• casmael@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I fucking love bees man

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• DestroyerOfWorlds@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No one wants to be hugged by a clown

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• zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s the original pic?

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  • cram42@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Pierrot and the cat” by Theophile Steinlen

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    • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks.

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