{"id":8438,"date":"2019-03-29T10:36:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T09:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8438"},"modified":"2019-03-29T10:36:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T09:36:37","slug":"one-thing-learnt-week-pollinator-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8438","title":{"rendered":"One thing we have learnt this week- pollinator losses"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"honey<\/a>A paper has come out this week on UK pollinator losses.\u00a0 This paper does not directly look at numbers, but instead looks at range an habitat.\u00a0 The study was based on the work of volunteers between 1980 to 2013.\u00a0 The implication of the study is that there has been a catastrophic loss of species from the sites studied over this time.\u00a0 353 different types of insects have disappeared from these sites with just 10% expanding their range.\u00a0 This does not mean the insects concerned are extinct yet.\u00a0 It does mean that they are in retreat.\u00a0 The reasons are quite clear, climate change and the use of pesticides.\u00a0 The danger from all this is 75% of all our crops are pollinated by insects.\u00a0 Even some kinds of self fertile crops do better with pollination.\u00a0 Unfortunately the pollinator losses study does chime with what I saw in the garden last year.\u00a0 The weather was particularly strange last spring but there was a noticeably lower number of insects last summer.\u00a0 The only increase I saw was in honey bees visiting my oregano.\u00a0 We had lower numbers of some of the more unusual types of parasitic insects and wasps.<\/p>\n

One solution as I have seen it and I hope its still correct is to use gardens as places protected from pesticide use.\u00a0 Hopefully these reservoirs would protect numbers.\u00a0 I would encourage all readers to not use pesticides to any great extent and to plant insect friendly plants.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A paper has come out this week on UK pollinator losses.\u00a0 This paper does not directly look at numbers, but instead looks at range an habitat.\u00a0 The study was based on the work of volunteers between 1980 to 2013.\u00a0 The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,17],"tags":[104,53,256],"class_list":["post-8438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-nature","category-one-thing-we-have-learnt-this-week","tag-food","tag-food-security","tag-insects"],"yoast_head":"\nOne thing we have learnt this week- pollinator losses - The oil lamp - shining God's light on peak oil<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8438\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8438\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8438\",\"name\":\"One thing we have learnt this week- pollinator losses - 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