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"The number of pollinating insects has fallen drastically in Europe over recent years. The European Food Safety Authority’s scientific report on bee mortality and bee surveillance in Europe ends by highlighting the general weakness of most surveillance systems and a lack of representative national data – and comparable European data – on colony loss.
This can also be traced back to the general lack of standardisation and harmonisation that was observed in regard to monitoring systems, analysis of case studies and information gathering, which I think is essential if we want to combat the serious and widespread situation of bee mortality.
I would like to underline that there are several reasons behind the drop in honeybee numbers in Europe and that we know little of the causes or the risk factors. There is no doubt that it all depends on the way that the beekeeping is carried out, which can bring about stresses in the colonies, on biological agents such as viruses, on environmental factors such as qualitative and quantitative biodiversity loss, on climate change, on genetically modified organisms, electromagnetic radiation, and other factors such as a drop in the number of queen bees and immunosuppression. We cannot, therefore, focus our attention solely on pesticides, as is often the case."@en1
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