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This assumes the mites are what kills the bees. What is that asssumption is flawed?
Nah, it cannot happen that Big Agro's poisons are to fault...
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No. The mites are not what is killing the bees. And, by the way - natural pathogens exist in just about any population. These very, very rarely led to extinction. There is a media trend to claim the mites are at fault. This reminds me of prior fault yielding e. g. "mad cow disease" - and then the media also stopped doing any further investigation at that point. It's as if they have break points where you can not go p…
Lotta unsubstantiated claims you're making there.
So what's it going to do to the honey? Will we have spider venom laced honey?
So what's it going to do to the honey? Will we have spider venom laced honey?
It is great and currently necessary we use them the way we do. It makes one wonder in the age of AI and evolving farm practices, can we start finding ways to cultivate already-climate-adapted native bees to do the work? Can we leverage adaptations for specific crops?
I get it that honeybees work great at pollinating monoculture fields, etc., but that does not change the fact we are perpetuating a square peg in round hole problem and pushing it very very far right now, at greater and greater cost, all while climate change is fighting us.
Honeybees are not native to North America. It is great and currently necessary we use them the way we do. It makes one wonder in the age of AI and evolving farm practices, can we start finding ways to cultivate already-climate-adapted native bees to do the work? Can we leverage adaptations for specific crops? I get it that honeybees work great at pollinating monoculture fields, etc., but that does not change the fact…
Honeybees are not native to North America. It is great and currently necessary we use them the way we do. It makes one wonder in the age of AI and evolving farm practices, can we start finding ways to cultivate already-climate-adapted native bees to do the work? Can we leverage adaptations for specific crops? I get it that honeybees work great at pollinating monoculture fields, etc., but that does not change the fact…
If they are not native, how did plant propagate seeds? Flies? Wasps? Butterflies?
But yes, there are other pollinators like butterflies, moths, flies, birds, etc.
So what's it going to do to the honey? Will we have spider venom laced honey?
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This assumes the mites are what kills the bees. What is that asssumption is flawed?
Nah, it cannot happen that Big Agro's poisons are to fault...
Some potentially seriously good news there if it all pans out the way it sounds like it might. Fingers crossed for the bees!
This assumes the mites are what kills the bees. What is that asssumption is flawed?
Congratulations, I look forward to your Nobel prize.