Bees Are Dying And That Could Be Devastating For Food Security

[tecelote]

Pesticides are killing off the world's bee and butterfly populations, endangering the survival of global agriculture, according to a new study released on Friday.

About 16 percent of the world's vertebrate pollinators "are being driven toward extinction by diverse pressures, many of them human-made, threatening millions of livelihoods and hundreds of billions of dollars worth of food supplies," the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services said.

The number of invertebrate pollinators going extinct is upwards of 40 percent in some areas. And pollinated crops are the providers of the world's fruit, vegetables, seeds, nuts and oils.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/declining-bee-population-food-security_us_56d07127e4b03260bf767cf5

[sweetapogee]

1. tecelote, there are problems in some areas

The last couple of years our bees (we are in NE PA) have been doing very well. How are yours doing?