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Study: Roundup Weed Killer Could Be Linked To Widespread Bee Deaths
The controversial herbicide Roundup has been accused of causing cancer in humans and now scientists in Texas argue that the world's most popular weed killer could be partly responsible for killing off bee populations around the world.
A new study [open, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1803880115] [DX] by scientists at the University of Texas at Austin posit that glyphosate — the active ingredient in the herbicide — destroys specialized gut bacteria in bees, leaving them more susceptible to infection and death from harmful bacteria.
Researchers Nancy Moran, Erick Motta and Kasie Raymann suggest their findings are evidence that glyphosate might be contributing to colony collapse disorder, a phenomenon that has been wreaking havoc on honey bees and native bees for more than a decade.
Also at Science Magazine.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday September 27 2018, @06:35AM (3 children)
Keep bees?
Why no keep As instead. I am disappoint.
After beeing left alone for years, recently bees went twice to relocate in my garden. The arrival is epic because the place is relatively small and the sky gets filled with bees and after 5 minutes all is quiet and a blob of bees is on the wall. Here they are protected and a beekeeper went to collect them that same night.
Second time they went for the bamboo plants stayed there a bit then went away.
When we were visited by hornets, that was scary.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday September 27 2018, @08:04AM
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45566304 [bbc.com]
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @10:56AM
> When we were visited by hornets ...
Here in the 'burbs we have what are locally called "ground bees", but these are yellow/black striped wasps. They nest in the ground, behind small rock walls around garden beds. If they are close to the house, this is a problem--I know someone that almost died from massive stings when they stepped on a nest. I hate to use poison, so I vacuum them out. Turns out I'm not the only one, there are several videos on YouTube. In my case I have an old smaller shop vac, set the end of the wand near the opening to the nest and leave it on during the warm part of the day when the wasps are active. Might take a few days before the hive is below critical size and dies.
Cost is low, electricity here is USD $0.12/kwh and the vac uses about 500 watts-- 6 cents/hour. Much cheaper than insecticide packaged for home use.
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Thursday September 27 2018, @08:06PM
"all is quiet and a blob of bees is on the wall."
I quite like how this was written.