Largest-ever study of controversial pesticides finds harm to bees
Losing bees would suck so bad. Lots of plants co evolved, requiring pollinators. Orchids are the weirdest, with special moths unique to them [1]. But so much stuff depends on bees. A whole bunch of kinds of fruit trees, different kinds of beans, even celery.<p>Hand pollination is possible, of course, but that seems like such a pita. Perhaps it's possible to automate.<p>We have a perfectly good, self optimizing system that constantly moves to optimality. If we could just lighten up a little, not push quite so hard, or even just do localized trials of intensive use pesticides and fertilizers, we could find a balance of what the system can support.<p>Either go slow and look for local optimizations that are then distributed widely, or engineer immunity, or both.<p>Ugh. I guess if it was easy, it wouldn't be a problem.