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Mysterieuze bijensterfte in het Groene Hart
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Please Lord, not the bees
’Bijensterfte erger dan opwarming aarde’
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’Bijensterfte erger dan opwarming aarde’
,,De oprukkende varroa destructor mijt zorgt voor grote bijensterfte. Economisch kan dit probleem erger worden dan de opwarming van de aarde. Want zonder bijen, geen bestuiving en geen landbouw.''
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Please Lord, not the bees
It sounds like the start of a Kurt Vonnegut novel:
Nobody worried all that much about the loss of a few animal species here and there until one day the bees came to their senses and decided to quit producing an unnaturally large surplus of honey for our benefit. One by one, they went on strike and flew off to parts unknown.
Among the various mythologies of the apocalypse, fear of insect plagues has always loomed larger than fear of species loss. But this may change, as a strange new plague is wiping out our honey bees one hive at a time. It has been named Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD, by the apiculturalists and apiarists who are scrambling to understand and hopefully stop it. First reported last autumn in the U.S., the list of afflicted countries has now expanded to include several in Europe, as well as Brazil, Taiwan, and possibly Canada. (1)(24)(29)
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