Not Good..probably happening everywhere

[ehanes7612]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/19/europe/insect-decline-germany/index.html

 

[Happypaphy7]

The end (not in a religious sense) is coming. Time for all to perish! lol

 

[cnycharles]

At a class at this year’s Ohio Cultivate conference for horticulture, I attended a few classes that were geared to doing pollinator and other beneficial insect landscaping, to feed and preserve insect populations necessary for ‘everything’. Where I work we sell many plants that could be used in this manner. This type of gardening is something everyone can do, and nations, both industrialized and not should investigate.


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[abax]

I grow lots of plants, perennials mostly, for bees and there
seems to fewer and fewer bees to pollinate them. I have
two neighbors with hives and the bees are living so far but
haven't made any honey. Very strange, don't you think?

 

[NYEric]

Not good.

 

[troy]

Insect population dying Because donald trump is president....maybe....

 

[Ray]

Neonicitinoids

 

[KyushuCalanthe]

Well, at least grain species are wind pollinated! We can live without fruit I suppose...

 

[Wendy]

http://www.gardenmyths.com/?s=Pesticides+and+bees&submit=Search

Some interesting info.

FWIW....we had lots of bees this year. Both honey bees and bumble bees. If I stood under our apple trees when they were in bloom all I could hear was a loud hum from the amount of bees in the flowers.

 

[D-novice]

We are unsustainable. And "we" is the current dominant biome with humans at the peak and base of the pyramid. Mother Nature is winding this little experiment down.

 

[abax]

I agree, although I'm not happy about it.