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US honeybee deaths hit record high as scientists scramble to find main cause
(www.theguardian.com)
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Was personally just looking around and thinking "Where the fuck are all the bees?". They're normally extremely active in my area this time of year, and am devastated to hear this.
There's also a big difference between the type of bees (honeybees) that keepers care for, and the "other" kinds (carpenter, yellow jacket...etc).
If they're ALL missing from your area, that's detrimental to plants being able to live.
Honestly, at this point we may need to just stop trapping and killing any of the pest pollinators. The hormone traps they sell everywhere now have got to be a huge problem.
All pollinators are good pollinators.
You should plant some native wildflowers if you can. Especially purple and blue ones (bees see purple the best, much like humans see red).
We have that, but I feel like we just actual numbers to combat the colony collapses at this point.
I don't know what bees are native to your area, but you could help them out by buying some baby bees in their cocoons and releasing them when appropriate. For me in the Pacific Northwest, it's mason bees in the spring and leafcutter bees in the summer. I've got a couple little bee houses with tubes for them to nest in. And the tiny baby bees are adorable.