𝕯𝖔𝖔𝖒𝖘𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖑𝖑™Sep 27, 2025
🐝🔍⚠️ Since the 90s, a quarter of bee species have vanished from global records. Not proof of extinction, but a bad sign. Wild bees are slipping through our fingers while data piles up. No buzz means no crops, no wildflowers. Something is happening, and it ain’t good. #BeeCrisis https://phys.org/news/2021-01-quarter-bee-species-havent-1990s.html
A quarter of known bee species haven't appeared in public records since the 1990s

Researchers at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) in Argentina have found that, since the 1990s, up to 25% of reported bee species are no longer being reported in global records, despite a large increase in the number of records available. While this does not mean that these species are all extinct, it might indicate that these species have become rare enough that no one is observing them in nature. The findings appear January 22 in the journal One Earth.

Phys.org
The-14Jul 15, 2025
How AI can help protect bees from dangerous parasites
#Environment #Bees #Honey #Parasites #Varroa
#AIForBees #SmartBeekeeping #VarroaMites #Honeybees #PollinatorProtection #HoneybeeHealth #AgTech #SustainableFarming #BeeCrisis #EnvironmentalTech
https://the-14.com/how-ai-can-help-protect-bees-from-dangerous-parasites/
How AI can help protect bees from dangerous parasites | The-14

AI offers a non-invasive way to detect deadly Varroa mites in beehives early, helping save Canada’s honey industry & protect pollinators critical to ecosystems.

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Jake in the desertAug 11, 2023

Article on the importance of bees -'America's bee problem is an us problem' (here's a short blurb from it - the link for the full article is below -- and it is a GREAT read):

"They are the phantom backbone of our agricultural system: The bees pollinate the crops; the beekeepers shuttle them from field to field, coast to coast.

They directly contribute to a third of America’s food: apples, peaches, lettuce, squashes, melons, broccoli, cranberries, tree nuts, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, plums, clementines, tangerines, sunflowers, pumpkins, alfalfa for your beef, and guar for your processed foods. Ninety-eight percent of organic vitamin C sources, 70 percent of vitamin A, and 74 percent of lipids; $17 billion worth of crops annually from honeybee pollination alone. The demand for their services has tripled in the past 50 years and shows no signs of abating."

https://www.theringer.com/features/2023/8/3/23816154/honeybees-commercial-urban-beekeepers-bees-dying-crisis

#bees #food #fruit #beef #HoneyBees #BeeCrisis #agriculture

America’s Bee Problem Is an Us Problem

You may have heard America’s honeybees are dying. But what does that mean for the people on the front lines—and what could it mean for what ends up on your plate?

The Ringer