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USA puts bees on endangered list

village_person — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 05:01:58 GMT

Bees added to US endangered species list for the first time

Seven types of bees once found in abundance in Hawaii have become the first bees to be added to the US federal list of endangered and threatened species.

The listing decision, published on Friday in the Federal Register, classifies seven varieties of yellow-faced or masked bees as endangered, due to such factors as habitat loss, wildfires and the invasion of non-native plants and insects.

The bees, so named for yellow-to-white facial markings, once crowded Hawaii and Maui but recent surveys found their populations have plunged in the same fashion as other types of wild bees – and some commercial ones – elsewhere in the United States, federal wildlife managers said.

Pollinators like bees are crucial for the production of fruits, nuts and vegetables and they represent billions of dollars in value each year to the nation’s agricultural economy, officials said.

Placing yellow-faced bees under federal safeguards comes just over a week since the US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed adding the imperilled rusty patched bumble bee, a prized but vanishing pollinator once found in the upper midwest and north-eastern United States, to the endangered and threatened species list.

One of several wild bee species seen declining over the past two decades, the rusty patched bumble bee is the first in the continental United States formally proposed for protections.

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/01/bees-added-to-us-endangered-species-list-for-the-first-time

Re: USA puts bees on endangered list

davidc4430 — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 05:04:06 GMT

i heard them bees were affected by donald trumps hair

Re: USA puts bees on endangered list

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 05:29:30 GMT

They will be endangered here very soon if our friend keeps importing her rat pellets

Re: USA puts bees on endangered list

bright.ton42 — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 06:40:52 GMT

Is she still doing that?

btw Do bees eat rat pellets? I love bees, even though I've been stung a couple of times though only by stepping on them. .

Re: USA puts bees on endangered list

davidc4430 — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 06:51:06 GMT

dont ya hate it when you step on a bee, get stung then ya foot swells up like a football.

then ya have to find another bee, step on it with the other foot so they match!

Re: USA puts bees on endangered list

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 07:17:44 GMT

Oh yeah. I was stung by a bee on my first day of school. Unfortunately for me, it stung me on the throat....and that is how I discovered I'm highly allergic

Re: USA puts bees on endangered list

davidc4430 — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 07:55:18 GMT

Monty Python - Eric the Half-a-Bee (1972)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlrsqGal64w

Re: USA puts bees on endangered list

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 08:07:57 GMT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khblgewzCYg

Re: USA puts bees on endangered list

not_for_sale — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 08:19:25 GMT

"A girl must be like a blossom
With honey for just one man
A man must be like honey bee
And gather all he can
To fly from blossom to blossom
A honey bee must be free
But blossom must not ever fly
From bee to bee to bee"

The King and I

Re: USA puts bees on endangered list

the_great_she_elephant — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 09:01:52 GMT

Hahaha. that sounds like very typical piece of male logic.

Re: USA puts bees on endangered list

bright.ton42 — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 09:03:07 GMT

@davidc4430 wrote:
dont ya hate it when you step on a bee, get stung then ya foot swells up like a football.

then ya have to find another bee, step on it with the other foot so they match!

Haha my foot swelled up and I needed an injection but the doc told me I had a bee allergy though not greatly. I don't think I've been stung anywhere else. I suppose I'd remember if I had lol.

Re: USA puts bees on endangered list

lind9650 — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 06:18:44 GMT

Bees are essential for our lifes. Crops won't grow without being polinated, so eventually there will be less and less food for us. The main culprits of destroying the Bees are the growers themselves. They use highly poisonous insecticides to keep the fruit and vegetable free of blemishes and by doing so they kill the polinator they need to keep growing the crops.

(And all that poison they use is causing more and more cancers.)

I dispair what the future holds. Chemical food for all?

Erica

Re: USA puts bees on endangered list

cherylb8668 — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 05:14:14 GMT

Can anyone tell me why the word "Victorian" has been added to the Wildlife endangered list,

Re: USA puts bees on endangered list

domino-710 — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 05:17:32 GMT

Given this thread is over 6 years old - it would be a good idea to begin another - a little more current - and perhaps - explain further.

What ' Wildlife endangered list ' ??

Re: USA puts bees on endangered list

imastawka — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 06:44:58 GMT

Hmmmm, I wonder what kind of animal is a Victorian to be endangered?

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papermoon.lady — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 06:47:49 GMT

They don't add adjectives... Do you perhaps mean there is now a specific list for endangered species in Victoria?

Re: USA puts bees on endangered list

domino-710 — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 07:11:05 GMT

Endangered Species - Victorians. lol

Re: USA puts bees on endangered list

kh-stanley1 — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 07:26:04 GMT

Hi everyone,

Due to the age of this thread, it has been closed to further replies. Please feel free to start a new thread HERE if you wish to continue to discuss this topic.

Thank you for understanding.