Why Industrial Agriculture Places Honey Bees in Peril

By Maggie Shanahan

Industrial agriculture is on the root of many honey bee well being issues, however the analysis neighborhood seldom calls consideration to this truth. Honey bee researchers typically focus on the stressors that contribute to colony loss, however we hardly ever discuss the place these stressors come from. This can be a drawback as a result of we can’t resolve honey bee well being points except we confront the programs that trigger them hurt.

Within the video above, I present an audio-visual adaptation of an article I revealed within the open-access Journal of Insect Science this week that unpacks the connection between honey bee well being and industrial agriculture. The article is a part of a forthcoming particular assortment that includes analysis in the USA on elementary and utilized points of honey bee biology.

Within the article, I discover steps that researchers can take to account for the harms of business agriculture and focus on the uncomfortable questions that floor once we confront this poisonous system. The aim of this text and accompanying video is to encourage dialog throughout the honey bee analysis neighborhood across the impacts of business agriculture, in order that we will totally have interaction within the transformative change wanted to help honey bee well being.

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Maggie Shanahan is a Ph.D. candidate within the Division of Entomology on the College of Minnesota in St. Paul, Minnesota. Twitter: @m_xenen. E-mail: mshanaha@umn.edu.

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