Thursday, March 10, 2011

Humans Killing Bees? Seems Likely

Many flowering plants that bees depend upon being wiped out due to human induced climate change - check.



Pesticides - check.



Genetically Modified plants - check.



This will end up killing? Planet? Could be.

Amplify’d from www.unep.org

Bees Under Bombardment

• Increasing use of chemicals in agriculture, including 'systemic insecticides' and those used to coat seeds, is being found to be damaging or toxic to bees. Some can, in combination, be even more potent to pollinators, a phenomenon known as the 'cocktail effect'

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