How would you microchip a bee?Researchers in Australia plan to do exactly that in order to better understand the decline in their numbers over the last 50 years. ab.co/2Xax7n0 @abcmelbourne 📸 @CSIROnews

May 28, 2019 · 12:29 AM UTC

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So the CSIRO are doing a study based on a premise which is factually incorrect? Global bee populations have *not* declined over 50yrs, nor have they in the USA, and there's ample proof that this 'story' is exactly that, a journalistic beat up: acsh.org/news/2017/03/01/bee…
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If only everyone saw the danger in flyspray as well as trying to plant more flowering plants instead of cement.
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Flies are pollinators too
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Don’t need a microchip to know the catastrophe of pesticides on #bees 🐝 the devastation of killers like glysophate must be stopped