Bee decline already having dramatic effect on pollination of plants

[Swami]

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01667/bees-on-sunflower_1667053c.jpg


The research, carried out in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, is the first to show that the effect is real and serves as a "warning" to Britain which if anything has seen an even greater decline in bees and pollinators.

"This serves as a warning to other countries," said Professor James Thomson at the University of Toronto, who carried out the research.

"For quite some time people have been suggesting that pollinators are in decline and that this could have an effect on pollination.

"I believe that this is the first real demonstration that pollination levels are getting worse. I believe it is a significant decline. I believe the pollination levels have dropped by as much as 50 per cent.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7980954/Bee-decline-already-having-dramatic-effect-on-pollination-of-plants.html

[Luke]

Wonder how much this have to do with introducing GM seeds and damaging plants not considered "cashcrop" by weedkillers, and general mono-farming problem.
Bees are here from long time (at least 100 million years, as Scientist count them). They survived global cataclysms and temperature changes more extreme than this lil spikes we now experience. To think that it can affect them is plain foolishness. Damaging their supporting ecosystem is quite another thing, but you do not get as sexy grants for researching that as you get for AGW research :P

[ascendingstarseed]

Your right SaiCo Research has confirmed that GM crops are one major factor in the collapse of bee colonies, because the plants don't have basic nutrients the bees need for their organs to sustain life.