Latest in pollinator declines Native Pollinator Decline Causes by Bee For Life Foundation
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It’s all over the news, if you’re paying attention, native and invasive bees are dying out. California courts ruled to protect four native bee species to try to curb their declines.
Seven other native bees were added to Endangered species list. The Anthricinan yellow-faced bee along with six other Hawaiian Hylaeus species.
Another native bee species on the United States Endangered Species List is the Rusty Patched Bumblebee. But why are these native bee and Honey Bee populations tumbling?
Urbanization of our rural areas, mono culture farming, and climate change are all part of the declines. Yet, in my opinion it’s the all out attack against the mosquito.
Yep, the Mosquito has struck fear in the hearts of Americans. So much that we are willing to wipe out all pollinators so we can hang out in our backyards at dusk.
Mosquitos are pollinators, both male and female. Only the female feeds on blood when she is ready to lay eggs. Which by the way, are dropped into water by the thousands, of which fish eat most.
What pest control does not know, or maybe they do, is that the spray they use is formulated to attract pollinators, all of them.
Essential oils used to con the mosquitos to the poison also calls other flying pollinators to their deaths. Yes, I’m speaking about those dudes that spray peoples yards and open flowers with permethrin
Permethrin means certain death to all insects that touch it.