Dave Goulson Silent Earth: Saving our insects
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- Опубликовано: 2 фев 2023
- A lecture given by Dave Goulson at the 2022 National Honey Show entitled "Silent Earth: Saving our insects". The National Honey Show gratefully acknowledge the Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers for their support and Sussex BKA for their sponsorship.
Insects are vital, fascinating, weird and wonderful. They are food, pollinators, recyclers, pest controllers, and much more, so we should be deeply concerned that they are in rapid decline. Dave Goulson will explain the many causes of insect decline, and then turn to the solutions of this crisis. We can all help in many ways, first by turning our gardens and urban greenspaces into oases for life, and second by fundamentally changing the way we grow food, and the food we buy.
Dave Goulson is Professor of Biology at University of Sussex, specializing in bee ecology. He has published more than 400 scientific articles on the ecology and conservation of bumblebees and other insects, plus seven books, including the Sunday Times bestsellers A Sting in the Tale (2013), the Garden Jungle (2019), and Silent Earth (2021). Goulson founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust in 2006, a charity which has grown to 12,000 members. In 2015 he was named number 8 in BBC Wildlife Magazine’s list of the top 50 most influential people in conservation. For each of the last 4 years he was named as a “Highly Cited Researcher” by Thompson ISI. He is a trustee of Pesticide Action Network, an “Ambassador” for the UK Wildlife Trusts, and president of Pesticide Free Scotland.
Hi! About oranges: they produce fruit independently of being pollinated. If pollinated, they also produce seed, wich is commercialy not appreciated by some consumers. Therefore, most farmers keep citrus orchards free from any bees and flowers. Beekeeping is usually forbidden within 5km from citrus orchards in eastern Spain.
Wow, that's perverse isn't it! Thanks for the info.
Varroa mites have wiped out the feral populations of honeybees so I would not bee too concerned about colonies of honey bees taking forrage away from other insects as long as apiaries are not too big. There is also a possative feedback loop having honey bees pollinating wild flowers produces more seed and that in turn produces more flowers.
Where did you get that idea? wild population of honey bees are doing great it's the hives which are horrendously inefficient look up grace mccormack and torben schiffer you,ll learn loads.
@@davecavana1031 slowly honey bees are adapting to Varroa but still will eventually die out without intervention, feral colonies do not get that intervention. Been keeping colonies of bees for +40 years, have eyes and ears.
@@waltermcphee3787 boomtree mick is up in donegal he has 250 log hives and had only 2 losses hes on yt.... so it looks like they are doing better than you think.
Elk and red deer are distinct species.
Thousands of people visiting everyday doesn't seem like rewilding.