Bye bye big bee: In South America, the world's largest bumblebee is at risk from imported rivals
by Ian Johnston

The Independent    Translate This Article
6 July 2014

On 6 July 2014 The Independent reported: It is believed to be the largest in the world -- with queens likened to 'flying mice'. But a bumblebee once common in South America is heading for extinction, scientists fear, as European invaders mass on the doorstep of its last known stronghold. Bombus dahlbomii -- described by British scientist Dave Goulson as 'a monstrous fluffy ginger beast' in his best-selling book A Sting in the Tale -- has almost disappeared since a buff-tailed bumblebee was imported into Chile in the mid-1990s. Experts believe it is likely the buff-tails brought diseases to which dahlbomii has no resistance, in a grim echo of what happened when European humans first arrived in the Americas and infection killed millions of the indigenous inhabitants. There is a worldwide trade in artificially reared bumblebees, which are used to pollinate a host of crops, including tomatoes, strawberries and avocados. But buff-tails' astonishing success - spreading at the rate of 200km a year at the expense of their native rival and the many flowers pollinated by it -- is a cautionary tale about the harmful effects of introducing alien species. Global Good News service views this news as the failure of modern science systems. Such 'flops' highlight the need for more intelligent, evolutionary, Natural Law based, life-supporting systems.

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