SOCECOL E8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: San Joaquin Valley, Colony Collapse Disorder, Beekeeping
26 May 2016
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Bees are very important to our environment but they"re dying and we should be concerned about. Really difficult to find causation because there are lots of possibilities high suspicion that it comes from a new pesticide causing the problem. Precautionary principle would say let"s stop using this until we know its safe. That"s not what we do- hard to understand the cause of the problem. Exposure to chemicals in our daily life- eat play sleep shower etc. Making us vulnerable because they"re not regulated and they"re always there. Causation is very difficult what should we do bee colony. A conclusive explanation so far has escaped scientists studying the ailment, colony collapse disorder, since it first surfaced around 2005. But beekeepers and some researchers say there is growing evidence that a powerful new class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids, incorporated into the plants themselves, could be an important factor.
