on 03-10-2016 04:01 PM
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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on 03-10-2016 04:04 PM
i heard them bees were affected by donald trumps hair
on 03-10-2016 04:29 PM
They will be endangered here very soon if our friend keeps importing her rat pellets
03-10-2016 05:38 PM - edited 03-10-2016 05:40 PM
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. .
on 03-10-2016 05:51 PM
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!
on 03-10-2016 06:17 PM
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
on 03-10-2016 06:55 PM
on 03-10-2016 07:07 PM
on 03-10-2016 07:19 PM
"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
on 03-10-2016 08:01 PM
Hahaha. that sounds like very typical piece of male logic.