• Norgur@fedia.io
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    5 months ago

    The frickin’ bees as a species aren’t dying out. Wild bees are because they get pushed aside by cultivated ones, for fuck’s sake. Stop trying to solve problems that aren’t there and start solving the real ones.

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        5 months ago

        no, a bunch of “bee activists” concerned the bees are dying run massive “save the bees” campaigns, that just end is more honey bees, ironically most people hate wild bees because they look like wasps, this is literally one of those issues where public attention has backfired

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          5 months ago

          people hate wild bees because they look like wasps

          Which I don’t get, because leafcutter and Mason bees are so cute! They may have similar coloring to certain wasps, but to me they just look like smaller bees with prettier colors.

          If people saw how cute their little leaf taquitos were, more people would make little habitats for them.

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      5 months ago

      it really is ironic that you be getting downvotes for speaking the truth, so many people don’t even know the actual issue

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      Wild bees are because they get pushed aside by cultivated ones, for fuck’s sake.

      This is the weirdest take I’ve ever seen on colony collapse disorder. I get that its cause is an unsolved problem so people are apt to wildly speculate about the answer, but “caused by other bees” is a new one on me.