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Moths are more efficient pollinators than bees: new research

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Re: Moths are more efficient pollinators than bees: new research

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Been there. Moth balls really work.

Any advice on usage? How many/ what placement do you do? Had you success with the wood ones (Cedar ?) or another type? Sanding any x times or not at all?

I think they are quite toxic so are meant to be placed in sealed containers with wool clothing. Then when you want to use the clothes clean them first to remove the residue.

Re: Moths are more efficient pollinators than bees: new research

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I mean, honey is pure carbs, so anything that produces so much excess of it can’t possibly be very efficient

I feel like it’s the opposite, the amount of energy packed into a single drop of honey makes it very efficient.

The energy taken by the bees and turned into honey is a cost from the flower’s point of view. I think you are looking at the efficiency of honey as a food, while the previous poster is looking at the efficiency of bees as pollinators?

Re: Moths are more efficient pollinators than bees: new research

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I hate bug zappers. They should be illegal. All they do is kill moths and beetles. They are entirely ineffective against mosquitoes and other biting flies, and their otherwise indiscriminate killing disrupts pollination and generally throws the local environment completely out of balance.

Re: Moths are more efficient pollinators than bees: new research

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....and more efficient at eating my expensive clothes and my brassicas, so fuck moths and bring on the native bee, wasp and butterfly populations

> fuck moths and bring on […] butterfly populations

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieris_rapae

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honey bees are not native to north america. Native Americans called them "white man's flies" (or should I not be learning history by watching westerns?)

So that is why corn syrup is popular in US?

Corn syrup is/was more used as a cheaper alternative for maple syrup and sugar. The relative unpopularity of honey probably has more to do with sugar plantations making sugar somewhat affordable.

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> run hundreds of watts of LED lights "Hundreds" is a pretty wide range but with that much wattage we're on the order of tens of thousands of lumens. That's a lot of light and would be ~10 flood lights.

20-30 60-100W equivalent LED bulbs in outdoor fixtures around their house. At 10W per LED, that's 200-300W they run most of the night.

I can read by their lights at night from a quarter mile away. I've tried. It's entirely absurd.

Re: Moths are more efficient pollinators than bees: new research

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So with all of this talk for years about colony collapse and food shortages yet moths were doing the bulk of the pollinating the whole time?

Or am I missing something.

Not that colony collapse doesn’t worry me, it does. But if I was being baselessly told to fear agriculture production issues, I am super mad.

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