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RE: 31 August 2019 - Bees working flowers
Where in Germany is that? In Dresden I saw flies even on warm days in February.
I don't track insects all that much. We seem to be OK at least as far as numbers are concerned - plenty of bees, flies, mosquitoes... This is just a totally amateurish assessment on my part, though - as I am certainly an opposite of an expert when it comes to this topic.
In Swabia. Even the scientist tell you about the disappearing flying insects: https://phys.org/news/2017-10-three-quarters-total-insect-population-lost.html
Oh, I am aware of systemic colony collapse of some species of bees, for example.
But this is bad. I didn't realize it was this extensive.
Of course, my question would be, how do they know - but that is a different topic.
How do they know? Scientist and friends of little creatures go into the fields and count them. Have you heard about Dave Goulson, a Britsh biologist and one of the leading experts in his field? He has done a lot of research and published books, like "A Sting in the Tale" where he talks in layman's term and entertaining about this problem.