Largest-ever study of controversial pesticides finds harm to bees

Re:Largest-ever study of controversial pesticides finds harm... by GuB-42 on Monday July 03, 2017 @07:02PM (#14692095)

I can't believe the idea that humanity depend on bees.

Sure, no more bees would be a very, very bad news. But humans are a pretty hardy specie. First, we are omnivores. Second, we have conquered the whole planet and live in huge numbers. And third, we are really smart. Besides cosmic scale events, I don't think of many scenarios that could damage humanity beyond recovery.

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Re:Largest-ever study of controversial pesticides finds harm... by stinos on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @06:11AM (#14694830)

As far as i know, no, humanity won't disappear when bees would do (even though I have seen people claiming it). Sure, some plants might solely depend on bees for pollination, but there are also plants which don't and there are also other pollinators. See https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/30495/do-bees-p... for example:

    The authors of the FAO analysis concluded that the proportion of global food production
    attributable to animal pollination ranges from 5% in industrialized nations to 8% in the developing world.

That being said: it is pretty hard to predict waht would happen suppose there were no bees at all. I doubt it would be nice though.

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Re:Largest-ever study of controversial pesticides finds harm... by pvaldes on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @06:18AM (#14694859)

Lets say that millions of people would die without bees then to put things into context.

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