Why Are The Bees Dying?
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Bees, wild and domesticated, are in big trouble. Bee colonies are dying off at alarming rates, and the cause isn't clear. Pesticides, habitat loss, diseaseтАж there's a laundry list of likely culprits. We rely on these tiny pollinators for a majority of our fruits, veggies, and nutsтАж if they disappear, could we be next?
LINKS/SOURCES:
Bee declines driven by combined stress from parasites, pesticides, and lack of flowers (Science, 2015) http://www.sciencemag.org/cont....ent/347/6229/1255957
What's killing America's bees? http://journals.plos.org/plosb....iology/article?id=10
Anand Varma's TED talk on saving bees: http://www.ted.com/talks/anand...._varma_a_thrilling_l
The White House's 2015 Pollinator Action Plan: http://journalistsresource.org..../studies/environment
Colony collapse disorder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C....olony_collapse_disor
Report of the commissioner of agriculture (1868): https://archive.org/details/reportofcommis00unit
Summary of colony collapse disorder: http://journalistsresource.org..../studies/environment
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