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 08:03 PM
@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.
on 04-10-2016 05:18 PM
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
on 08-11-2022 04:14 PM
Can anyone tell me why the word "Victorian" has been added to the Wildlife endangered list,
on 08-11-2022 04:17 PM
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 ' ??
on 08-11-2022 05:44 PM
Hmmmm, I wonder what kind of animal is a Victorian to be endangered?
on 08-11-2022 05:47 PM
They don't add adjectives... Do you perhaps mean there is now a specific list for endangered species in Victoria?
on 08-11-2022 06:11 PM
Endangered Species - Victorians. lol
on 08-11-2022 06:26 PM