Posted on 04/09/2024 6:54:15 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
One of nature’s most important keystone species is working itself to death.
Colonies of honey bees — crucial pollinators for a wide variety of plants and cash crops — are at risk of collapse because of climate change, a recent study by scientists at Washington State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture found.
Long and warmer fall months across the Pacific Northwest encourage bees to emerge from their colonies when they should be resting, said Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, a research leader at the USDA’s Carl Hayden Bee Research Center in Arizona.
“When it’s warm out, they fly and when they fly they’re physiologically aging,” said DeGrandi-Hoffman, who is also one of the study’s authors. “It’s very taxing to fly.”
Come springtime, bees that should be emerging young and rested are instead elderly and infirm, she said. They’re too old to care for younger bee generations, which in turn cannot care for the generations after them.
The study modeled many different climate scenarios for the decades ahead, said Kirti Rajagopalan, another author, and an assistant professor in WSU’s Department of Biological Systems Engineering. How severe the warming trend continues for the Pacific Northwest depends on whether humans curtail greenhouse gas emissions and, if so, by how much.
The thing that will prevent the greatest amount of warming, however, is for humans to cut greenhouse gas emissions and work to reverse the worst effects of climate change, Rajagopalan said.
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Gee what do bees do in the south where it’s relatively warm all year around. Guess they must all be old bees down there.
I am calling for 0% tolerance of CO2 in the atmosphere.
The study modeled many different climate scenarios for the decades ahead,
Here in southern Arizona all the bees I see are gray-headed and fly with canes.
Climate change is just a cult now. These freaks got religion.
Amen. I agree with you. One can never underestimate the stupidity of the American public.
If there is no pollen and not nectar, they will cluster and consume stored honey at a higher rate than spring & summer bees. A spring or summer bee lives around four to five weeks, while fall-winter bees live around four to six months.
If you are a bee, foraging is an extremely hazardous occupation.
Of course it does. What doesn’t it hurt!?
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Co2 provides more flowers, more flowers is shorter trips for bees, shorter trips is more honey and less aging and more bees.
There, solved the problem
To save the honey bee population, humans must die. No other way to say it.
Let me guess... God made the honey bees to be resilient, just like the rest of nature (the ozone layer, temperature cycles, carbon cycles, etc.)?
Actually, there is a recent in depth study that prove honey are thriving.
:: The study modeled many different climate scenarios for the decades ahead ::
Modeled.
So, no REAL LIFE, contemporary evidence of bee-impact.
Their model says they need more tax money gaslight people outside of Washington state.
The real cause of “climate change” are the global marxists/RATs....no other cause. spit.
The last three years have had the shortest summers in decades with more rain and snow. Who paid for this study?
again with the honey bees ... i just read here a few days ago that the number of domestic and wild honey bees were at an all time high ...
Yeah, but the NEW way to do science is to cherry pick. Delete those old studies because they don’t match our pre-determined conclusion.
Those are probably ‘Retired Bees’ that you’re seeing down there, LOL!
I will admit that I have fewer bees than I used to, but they have tons to eat around here between what Nature provides for them and all the flowers I grow for them.
I see more Bumble Bees now than anything, but SOMEONE is pollinating my garden because production has gone UP through the years. *SHRUG*
I do what I can. I’m not really ‘in charge’ of anything in the long run. ;)
A few years ago there was a honeybee panic pushing hive collapse via the varroa mite. Then there was the Africanized honeybee panic. Although they really are issues, it was nothing to panic over. Now this climate cult panic. Panic everybody! Fear fear fear!!
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