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Honey bees will be fine. They are a globally distributed, domesticated animal. Apis mellifera will not go extinct, and the species is not remotely threatened with extinction. The National Survey of beekeepers released last week reported the lowest winter hive losses of the last 8 years.
The bees you should be concerned about are the 3,999 other bee species living in North America, most of which are solitary, stingless, ground-nesting bees you’ve never heard of. Incredible losses in native bee diversity are already happening. 50 percent of Midwestern native bee species disappeared from their historic ranges in the last 100 years. Four of our bumblebee species declined 96 percent in the last 20 years, and three species are believed to already be extinct…
That wouldn’t be a big deal, if commercial honeybees could pick up the slack. They can’t. Managed honey bee colonies supplement the work of natural wild pollinators, not the other way around. In a study of 41 different crop systems worldwide, honeybees only increased yield in 14 percent of the crops. Who did all the pollination? Native bees and other insects.
^ This.
This is why it’s important to find out what native plants in your area are favorites with bees and plant those. Because those are the ones that are adapted to the native bees. Also a lot of the solitary native bees nest in old wood or the dirt, so you can create a beehotel for the wood-living ones.
Is there anything cuter than severe muscle wasting plus two painfully adorable kittens?
Hi. I’m Shane Burcaw, and if you don’t know me, I’m the dude with the enormous head in the picture above. I was born with a lovely disease called Spinal Muscular Atrophy. It causes my muscles to waste away as I get older. I’ve been in a wheelchair my entire life. If you’re in the market for a new disease, I’d highly recommend this one.
I am on a mission to help other people with my disease, and I believe that my incredibly supportive Tumblr family can help me achieve those dreams.
I’m going to keep this super brief: Living with muscular dystrophy is fucking expensive. I need about 45,000 different pieces of specialized equipment just to stay alive and comfortable. But here’s the shitty part: There are so many people with my disease who don’t have those items they need to thrive.
I want to change that.
I’ve developed a program called No More Nightmares that gives people with MD the stuff they need to live more awesomely. To help SIX people this year, I need to raise $40,000. Anything that you can do to donate or reblog this post will be massively helpful, and I can’t thank you enough if you choose to support my cause.
