In this thread: Animals only deserve to live if they have a direct use case to us humans. People here are not sure whats alle the fuss about mass extinction. Carry on beloved free market capitalism.
Bumblebees are so fuzzy! They’re adorable.
Love me some fat bees
We have a bee hotel and it’s so damn cute seeing these little solitary bees filling up the holes.
We probably have 20-30 nests.
Yay! Me too! I had so many different species visit my yard this year. Like 3 different species of big ‘bumble bees’. And so many of the other kind. I like the iridescent green one!! :-D
Moreso. Everyone started getting honey bees that it’s now having an impact on native bees.
Honey bees got hyped up as a problem because the large agricultural industries that relied on them was having a problem. It is an actual problem but not just honey bees. Everyone got so hyped that we’ve note got the old problem and a new problem too.
yeah… and arent the threatened bess only the ones that live alone and arent used by humans to make honey anyway?
The ones I know of are exclusively bumble bees. Which yeah, don’t make honey we can eat. They actually hibernate during the winter, so they don’t need to make a ton of honey. Just enough to snack on if it’s too stormy to go looking for food.
And FYI to anybody reading, the best thing you can do for bumblebee populations is to grow wildflowers native to your region and don’t cut them down before they flower so the bees have a chance to get to them.
Bumblebees are these fuzzy, gentle, fat little guys. They’re fun to watch and harmless, as long as you don’t try to go catching them with your bare hands or something like that.
If you hate wasps its because you’re a coward and deserve to be stung anyway
I don’t hate wasps, but I wish they’d realize the apple I’m eating comes from the tree right behind me, that has a thousand more for them to munch on
What commercial purpose do non-honey bees serve??? Why should we save them???
Viewing things from a solely commercial perspective is myopic and like most capitalistic business practitioners, promotes a mindset that thinks waaay too short term. You can’t make your money off your crops decades from when you’re only thinking about this quarters profits. Put simply, the selfish you today fucks yourself over tomorrow.
But even if you were to take this myopic and short sighted approach, Honey Bees are just average pollinators amongst a diverse range of insects and some small birds.
Additionally planting a wide variety of drought resistant flora is better for both wild as well as domesticated pollinators and is a more environmentally friendly practice than just keeping honey bees.
Save all bees. Except carpenter bees, which are to be terminated with extreme prejudice.
(/s obviously, I’m sure they are important to the larger ecosystem somehow)
Fucking carpenter bees (aka winged termites). Ironically, the males have no stingers but they are extremely aggressive and will kamakazi dive bomb you in the face repeatedly if you get near the entrance to the nest.
