Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Letum
The good thing about the bee problem is that because a healthy population of bees makes economical sense for people, the capitalist machine will ensure a healthy population is maintained (at least until they find a cheaper artificial bee).
|
There are two issues with that.
One is that the US is using some kind of pesticide which either damages a bee's UV sensors, or some other navigational aid, which makes it difficult for the bee to navigate back to the hive. It's a known problem and most of Europe has banned the specific pesticide because of this issue.
Second is the African bees and some other non-native species that have been introduced, which interfere with pollenating bees. This issue has been growing significantly just the past decade, same as fire ants.
The pesticide needs to be banned, and I don't know what we're going to do with the non-native species. Fire ants and these African bees will need a selective predator to control -- much less annhilate -- or we will need to genetically modify the two species to be "beneficial".