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Interesting fact of the day: Despite the misinformation in the news both Bumblebee 🐝 and Honey Bee populations are at an all time high for the last 50+ years.
there was a legitimate scare about 12 years ago, a momentary crash in numbers. But since then it has recovered very well as can be seen from the charts.
@freemo wow what the hell... I was convinced our cell phones or some pesticide driven colony mold was going to be the end of us... now do global warming.
@thewumbles Sorry, global warming is very very much real.
But the scare on bees was entierly legitimate. Colony Collapse Disorder is and was very real. The scare hit its absolute worst in 2006, which you can see in the graphs as the low point. The threat at the time was real and legitimate.
With that said the part that is so often left off is that for the past 12 years we have seen amazing numbers in terms of recovery. But people I think are so scared that people will stop caring about bees they continue to try to perpetuate the fear rather than focus on the good.
@freemo so what you’re saying is you’ll get back to me on the global warming thing in 12 years? ;)
Thanks for the post. I’m glad our little friends are doing well. Hoping the same is true about the atmosphere.