{"id":281314,"date":"2023-09-30T19:26:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T17:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=281314"},"modified":"2023-09-30T19:26:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T17:26:11","slug":"thanks-new-york-times-for-finally-admitting-honey-bees-are-doing-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=281314","title":{"rendered":"Thanks, New York Times, For Finally Admitting Honey Bees Are Doing Great"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ByLinnea Lueken<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A recent New York Times<\/em> (NYT) article titled \u201cThe Beekeepers Who Don\u2019t Want You to Buy More Bees<\/a>,\u201d explains that contrary to popular media narratives, honey bee populations are healthy and numerous. This is true. Colony collapse disorder, the main threat to bees, is largely a commercial bee problem and not necessarily a wild honey bee problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the article, professional bee-keeper Gorazd Trusnovec explains to NYT writer David Segal that the well-intentioned growing popularity of beekeeping is actually misguided, because there are now actually too many honey bees in areas all around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you overcrowd any space with honey bees, there is a competition for natural resources, and since bees have the largest numbers, they push out other pollinators, which actually harms biodiversity,\u201d he said, after a recent visit to the B&B bees. \u201cI would say that the best thing you could do for honey bees right now is not take up beekeeping.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Segal goes on to describe colony collapse disorder, which is a phenomena seen in commercial beekeeping in which a large portion of a bee hive or colony dies or is wiped out. Segal writes that \u201cexperts tend to blame pesticides, an invasive parasite, a reduction in forageable habitat and climate change,\u201d and this tracks with what Climate Realism<\/em> has seen and combatted previously. However, climate change is not among the best explanations for the problem, as explained in \u201cTell the Truth, UPI News, Parasites and Pesticides, NOT Climate Change, Are Killing Honey Bee Colonies,<\/a>\u201d or in the June Climate Fact Check<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extreme weather like heat waves<\/a> and precipitation<\/a> aren\u2019t occurring more frequently as measured by any metric, so climate change can\u2019t be implicated in  increasing numbers of commercial bee hives being damaged across large geographic regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lists the factors it believes are the most likely causes of the decline in bees and other pollinators:<\/p>\n\n\n\n