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Pollinating bees officially extinct
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For decades, scientists and farmers foresaw the inevitable extinction of bee populations.
Despite these warnings, the Global Institute for Endangered Species (GIES) announced at their Washington AGM yesterday that wild bees are now officially extinct - living specimens exist only in captivity.
Bee numbers have been ravaged in recent decades by Colony Collapse Disorder, where worker bees disappear - leaving hives which cannot feed themselves.
Biologists confirmed that CCD was accelerated by the overuse of pesticides in crops, parasites and pollution.
The consequences of this catastrophe will be felt across the cotton industry, fresh water supplies and, most disturbingly, agriculture. Environmentalist Cathy Linda has stressed the breadth of this news: "one in three mouthfuls of food we eat relies on pollination of some kind". The resulting famine will lead to "millions of deaths" worldwide.
CyberLife, in cooperation with GIES, have come forward with plans on creating robotic bees. Some are pursuing non-robotic approaches, such as Detroit Urban Farms currently experimenting with modified strains of bee produced in captivity, but there is no guarantee that they will thrive.
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