I agree it does mention hundreds of millions but is confusing because...Shook said. "If we lose 80% of our bees every year,..." Not very clear in the article on exactly what percentage of the bee population died.

Pretty huge distinction

Idk about others, but mine died due to temperatures not reaching above 27 for 14 days straight.

there’s a crazy scene in the documentary More Than Honey where they compare beekeepers with US Almond Farm pollenators. It’s all about money and it’s sickening.

so worry but not panicking yet. gotcha, nothing will be done then.

This story is about domesticated honeybees, which have been declining for decades due to Colony Collapse Disorder and other stressors. Native North American bees are in their own long-term decline, with 1 in 4 species at risk of extinction. However, domesticated honeybees are tremendously important for the pollination and yield of many crops important to humans, and this population drop, thought to be the largest annual losses seen, should be considered in the context of the longer decline, and the possibility that we could hit a tipping point when pollination, and a crucial pillar of our food system, could fail.

there’s a fungus that protects against the mites and it’s being researched. it’s genius, the bee picks up the fungus in a contraption where it has to crawl through to get to nectar and then brings it back to the hive. i read it in Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life.

Is now a bad time to get into mead making?

I wonder if I can return my yeast...

It does, but the problem everyone's talking about isn't about wild bees, it's about farming bees. Monospeecies of non-native bees pollinating monoculture of probably corn. They are dying, but only because they're basically kept in bees analogue of factory farming conditions.
Wild pollinators are fine (well, as fine as any wild species can be in our world, so not really, but at least not worse than others)

It's like nobody paid attention to bee movie.

What are we supposed to do? Not rolling coal and eating meat every day? There is just nothing we can do.

We could always eat the rich.

Think of the shareholders!

Fall back to the fundamentals - communities, you're part of many, join more. The people in your community can work together for survival or or turn against each other. You have a chance if you work with people, but not much of one if you try to lone wolf it. History is prologue. (your community should include everyone you can get on board, I'm not saying huddle up, I'm saying join the fight - It's wealth disparity and it's a global war)

If we were to do that now, we could take it all back in a week, but we won't do that. Humans have to lose something important to them before they really take a look around and desperation kicks in, and too many aren't seeing much difference yet. If you really connect to your community, they'll see your suffereing or someone elses and that might be the catalist for them, but we're easy to pick off piecemeal and lazy as fuck, so we're losing meters every day.

There's volumes of context here and I'm getting dragged into minutia, but we die apart, live together. That's the formula, history proves it.

Some beekeepers actually mentioned that they've been scraping the beeswax clean off their hives more frequently because its known that the beeswax collects pesticides and herbicides over time which affects the colony due to exposure.

The problem is its not just monsanto acid, there's a ton of other issues also correlated like weather/climate, seasonal flowering, untreated parasites, bacteria, etc.

We've literally nuked the environment so hard that even if we fix one problem, the population will not make a full bounce back (although I would think monsanto is the biggest threat)

Biggest scam of this century was corporate produce monoliths convincing people Organic was about health and not the fact that it doesn't use a scorched earth policy and scam one off hybrid plant seeds to grow food which has been setting us up for a widespread fammine for decades.

Some random superweed is gonna crossbreed with some rapid out of control growth plant and wipe out half of the food chain.

Anthropogenic climate change is real, whether you believe in it or not.

You know who believes in climate change? Fossil fuel companies, insurance companies, the military industrial complex, and every single politician talking about buying or taking Greenland by force. All the very same people who have spent the past half century publicly denying the existence of anthropogenic climate change. Not only do they believe in it, but they are designing their profit models around it at our expense.