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Whatever happened to the Bee Apocalypse? - C C - Jun 28, 2022
https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/06/whatever-happened-to-bee-apocalypse.html
INTRO: 15 years ago, dying bees were all over the news. Scientists called it the “colony collapse disorder”, headlines were warning of honey bees going extinct. Some suspected a virus, some pesticides, parasites, or a fungus. They spoke of a “honeybee apocalypse”, a “beepocalypse”, a “bee murder mystery” and the “head scratching case of the vanishing bees”, which are all names of movies I wouldn’t watch, and in any case the boring truth is that the honey bees are doing fine. It’s the wild bees that are in danger. Whatever happened to the bees and how much of a problem is it? That’s what we’ll talk about today... (MORE - details)
https://youtu.be/MF6JYqQLZqQ
RE: Whatever happened to the Bee Apocalypse? - RainbowUnicorn - Jun 29, 2022
85% of "some" crops pollinated by wild bees
wild bee species declining
. . .
what was not mentioned is the extra work apiarists have gone to
to counter collapsing colony's and bee numbers
RE: Whatever happened to the Bee Apocalypse? - C C - Jun 29, 2022
(Jun 29, 2022 01:21 AM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: 85% of "some" crops pollinated by wild bees
wild bee species declining
. . .
what was not mentioned is the extra work apiarists have gone to
to counter collapsing colony's and bee numbers
Unsung heroes... They don't get the credit if a menace is thwarted before it seriously arrives at the public's doorstep of awareness.
Here's another thread for the future, perhaps: I'm still wondering what happened to the second Banana Apocalypse that we were supposed to be on the doorstep of a few years ago.
No, the Banana Apocalypse Is Not Around the Corner
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/banana-fungus-not-banana-apocalypse
INTRO: Let’s cut to the chase: it is highly unlikely that the [Cavendish] banana will go extinct, despite what you might have read elsewhere. The feared fungus Fusarium wilt tropical race 4 (TR4) has officially breached Colombia’s banana plantations, according to an August 12 report in Science. There is no known way to cure the fungus, which kills banana plants by choking their vascular systems. This is definitely very bad -- Colombia is the fourth-largest exporter of bananas in the world, according to Reuters—but it’s not the banana apocalypse, bananapocalypse, or even Bananageddon that has been predicted by a new crop of yellow journalism...
The original commercial banana (Gros Michel) that distant consumers lost to Panama disease back in the 1950s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel_banana
RE: Whatever happened to the Bee Apocalypse? - Kornee - Jun 29, 2022
Regarding vid linked to in #1
https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/06/whatever-happened-to-bee-apocalypse.html
8:40-46 Sabina fluffs that statement. Europe is the one region recording an unequivocal sharp increase in species numbers.
Oceania is kinda 'undecided' according to forking graph(s). Auto-cue error? Nevertheless a good presentation overall.