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re: #1092 SilentAlfa
In brighter news something good has come of WikiLeaks: we now know why honeybees have been dying en masse (this is actually really important considering that honeybees pollinate like all of our food). A pesticide called clothianidin turns out to be incredibly toxic to bees, and the EPA has known about it for a while, and done nothing. Wooo
A) Honeybees don’t pollinate ‘like all’ of our food. Bumblebees, soliatary bees, and carpenter bees are all pollinators as well. Other insect species are pollinators to a lesser extent.
B) Many crops are grown in a way that makes pollination of lesser importance than others. This is also important to understand. See this:
C) Whatever effects this pesticide may have, there is also a parasite actively attacking honeybee and bumblebee populations.
