Killer Lettuce? !HonkUK.BIE joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 24 minutes later[^][v]#1,149,212
Ah yes, I was well-known for my insistence that all the bees would be dead by now. That they aren't has made a fool of science and sent me into a rage. Fuck. Arrrrgh.
dw joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 1 hour later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,149,219
actually, there's fewer than there have ever* been!
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2.1. The Decline of English BeesIn recent years, research has demonstrated substantial declines in many species of bees within the UK. In particular, the number of managed honeybee colonies in the UK fell by 53% between 1985 and 2005 (Potts et al, 2010a) and wild honeybees are thought be nearly extinct throughout the British Isles (Carreck, 2008) although their true status remains unknown. Other studies have demonstrated significant contraction in the ranges of many species of wild bumblebees (Goulson et al, 2008) and solitary bee diversity has declined in 52% of English landscapes assessed by Beismeijer et al, (2006).England’s Natural Environment and Rural Communities Section 41 (NERC S41) list of priority species includes 17 wild bees, most of them solitary bees, as targets for potential conservation action (Natural England, 2010a), as most efforts have thus far been focused on gathering detailed ecological and distributional data into these species (e.g. Hymettus, 2011). However, since 1900 only two species of bumblebee have become extinct and some of the most common bumblebee species have become more widespread across England (Edwards and Broad, 2005; Edwards and Roy, 2007), although due to a lack of monitoring schemes, the abundance of these species remains unknown. In general, solitary bees, species with more specialised feeding and nesting habits and those with a low capacity to disperse between habitats, typically smaller-bodied species, are thought to be the most vulnerable (Williams et al, 2010, 2007; Goulson et al, 2008).
Then we shall simply have to plant billions of flowers throughout the land, and make it the law that roofs have platforms on the top that wildflowers grow on.
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