We are so cooked

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• froggycar360@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Honey bees aren’t even native to the US

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• InfiniteHench@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Those bees know what they did

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• safesyrup@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nowhere in the article does it say we lost 80% of the bee population. You are spreading misinformation

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  • Fallofturkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You’re correct. The quote is "If we lose 80% of our bees every year, the industry cannot survive, which means we cannot pollinate at the scale that we need to produce food in the United States."

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  • Zarmeck@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It does, in a quote.

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    • turnip@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Not on the current scenario.

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• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m not a bee, you’re not a bee, so it sounds like a them problem.

  (On the internet, no one knows you’re a bee.)

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  • ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can say whatever you want about them in text. As long as you don’t dance it, they’ll be none the wiser.

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• iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  make sure you retract words like bias and gender from your articles and they will come back. they are just extremely bigoted.

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  • longjohnjohnson@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think you mean… Beegoted.

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    • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      nice one!

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  • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Awww fuck… Bees are mostly colonies of females living in harmony?

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• collapse_already@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Bees aren’t the only arthropods having this problem, but for most of the other non-pollinators people seem to think "good less bugs to bother me. " I guess we should just give up on the survival of the food chain.

  The news for insects is not entirely bad, emerald ash borers are finding the ability to survive in areas that were formerly too cold for them. This allows them to kill more trees turning them into kindling for lightning strikes and other fire starting events.

  Who could have known that fucking with our habitat might have negative consequences for us?

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  • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The news for insects is not entirely bad, emerald ash borers are finding the ability to survive in areas that were formerly too cold for them. This allows them to kill more trees turning them into kindling for lightning strikes and other fire starting events.

    Had me in the first half, not gonna lie.

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• Fandangalo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  • Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Image

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  • Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Did Mark Wahlberg hate crime all the bees to death?

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• Aeri@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Mortified, but I am not a bee-ologist.

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• ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t like this meme

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• qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Old age probably.

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  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Winter?

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• GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Remember when our biggest fear was killer bees? What a quaint time in our history.

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• PanArab@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It may not be related but forest fires are raging in many US states and it isn’t even summer yet

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• bluebadoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Specifically, honey bees (Apis mellifera). Native bees that aren’t colony dwellers may not be impacted the same by the mites.

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  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Who cares then, aren’t they only useful for monocropping large farms? Most US bee enthusiasts would instantly cull every honey bee if they could.

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    • stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      “Only”.

      80% of crops grown in the US are pollinated by honey bees.. If you think grocery prices are bad now…

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    • bluebadoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Personally, I care because I love honey, farm grown food, and they are a poster child for all bees. Without them, there is certainly a lot less care for native bees. While yes they are primarily important for large monocropped farms, that’s your food. Like, so much of your food. Natuu is very bee populations aren’t sufficient or interested in pollinating our food crops, so yes we should really care.

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    • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Why would the bee enthusiasts cull honey bees?

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    • ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Do you like food? We use bees to grow that

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• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Most domesticated bee species aren’t native to the US. It’s quite possible they are just getting bee-ported.

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• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s called winter.

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• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Image

  Something about the birds and the bees …

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• randon31415@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Trump is deporting them back to Melissa Majoria

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Was it to make room to fit the 690% increase in newborns?

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• ALostInquirer@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  hello frog, that is sad to hear, have you tried calling doompost?

  (how is there no !doompost??)

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  • PixelatedCleric@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    In fairness, most of the news communities are doomposts by themselves.

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    • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Reality has a doom bias.

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• werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Maybe if Monsanto can cross a Bee with a mosquito and release it into the wild, maybe things will be better? Maybe said mosquito will not mate with a Japanese killer wasp in an unfortunate twist of events?

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• Enzy@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not the bees!!!

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