Repost from Quartz | Todd Woody | July 24, 2013
The death of pollinating bees in Taiwan has been cause of concern for its fruit farmers. It is expensive and tedious to pollinate flowers of fruit trees because of massive decline in bee population in a mysterious phenomenon known as CCD (colony collapse disorder) or beemageddon.
Its cause is worse than previously thought, according to scientists. Bees in a colony could just die suddenly and its cause has been attributed to combination of insecticide, fungicide and parasite Nosema cerenae.
The insecticide affected their ability to resist infection of the parasite.
The use of class of insecticides known as neonicotinoids has been banned because it has been linked directly to death of bees.
The bee population is low in US that 60% of the remaining bee population would be required to pollinate the whole of California
Is this a serious economic and agricultural problem?
Is is it just another bees and the bird problem? An esoteric subject?
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