• Redex@lemmy.world
    92·
    1 个月前

    I’m not too up to date with this story, but haven’t pesticides been used for forever now? Why would the suddenly cause a 80% drop in population?

    • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      17·
      1 个月前

      I think bee populations are under threat from pesticides, habitat reduction, disease, climate change, nutrition, et cetera.

      Of that list, pesticides are probably the easiest to solve.

    • 0tan0d@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 个月前

      It’s not the same pesticides year over year. My bet is some MBA pushed a tweak to the formula for short term gains.

      resist

    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
      3·
      1 个月前

      neonicotinoids were invited in the 1980s and it’s been recently understood that it’s like a forever chemical. it will get into the dirt and go through the plants and pass on through pollen