{"id":45517,"date":"2019-04-19T21:01:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T02:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45517"},"modified":"2019-04-21T07:05:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T12:05:25","slug":"wild-bee-population-collapses-by-90-in-new-england-study-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45517","title":{"rendered":"Wild Bee Population Collapses By 90% In New England, Study Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wild Bee Population\u00a0Collapses By 90% In New England, Study Warns\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Researchers from the University of New Hampshire conducted a study<\/a> to document declines in about 100 wild bee species critical to pollinating crops throughout New England. What they discovered, according to the study, was a collapse in the wild bee population across the state, reported AP<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Researchers analyzed 119 species in the state from a museum collection at the college dating back more than a century. Sandra Rehan and Minna Mathiasson published the study in the peer-reviewed journal called Insect and Conservation Diversity this month. They concluded 14 species found across New England were on the decline by as much as 90%. Several of the species include leafcutter and mining bees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We know that wild bees are greatly at risk and not doing well worldwide,” Rehan, assistant professor of biological sciences and the senior author on the study, said in a prepared statement. “This status assessment of wild bees shines a light on the exact species in decline, besides the well-documented bumblebees. Because these species are major players in crop pollination, it raises concerns about compromising the production of key crops and the food supply in general.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The AP noted that wild bee populations across the world are in decline, and scientists have blamed a wide range of factors including industrialization, insecticides, herbicides, parasites, disease, and climate change. Bees are crucial for pollination, and about one-third of the human diet derives from plants that are directly pollinated by bees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Greg Burtt, founder of Burtt\u2019s Apple Orchard in Cabot, Vermont, told the AP that his farm relies heavily on wild bees for crop production. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Making sure that pollinators in the area are healthy and doing well is definitely something we\u2019re concerned about,” Burtt said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Wild Bee Population\u00a0Collapses By 90% In New England, Study Warns\u00a0 Researchers from the University of New Hampshire conducted a study to document declines in about 100 wild bee species critical to pollinating crops throughout New England. What they discovered, according to the study, was a collapse in the wild bee population across the state, reported AP. Researchers analyzed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4318],"class_list":["post-45517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45518,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45517\/revisions\/45518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}