Posted on 08/02/2017 9:05:49 PM PDT by artichokegrower
The number of U.S. honeybees, a critical component to agricultural production, rose in 2017 from a year earlier, and deaths of the insects attributed to a mysterious malady that's affected hives in North America and Europe declined, according a U.S. Department of Agriculture honeybee health survey released Tuesday.
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No longer on O-Care? Very possible...honeybee premiums shot up 74% last year. The Queen is plotting their resistance. Drone thugs have their bike locks in their pollen sacks are looking for Trump supporters.
There’s a little roadside stand on Highway 92 in Half Moon Bay, CA that sells about fifteen different single-source honies, mainly local, but a couple from Southern California. All from small mom & pop apiaries. The mango honey is fantastic. He also sells bee pollen to treat allergies.
“The stress on honeybees in man made.”
Every Spring I watch almost every yard on my street being sprayed with chemicals. Does this have any effect? No Butterflies around.
“I think you are overstating it a bit. I can’t speak for what is sold in the stores, but there is no shortage of pure honey where I live.”
It is most likely that the stuff you find in the stores is not actually honey, but is rather honey cut with HFCS or imported honey or HFCS converted to honey.
I am not a professional beekeeper but have had bees since I was a kid in order to combat allergies, but honey does not help with allergies.
In the almost 40 years I have had bees, I have seen not just the rise of Varroa but the introduction of Varroa to North America. I have also seen a great increase in small hive beetles and the neonics have exasperated both the mite and beetle problems. Now, I have to monitor hives to make sure they do not become africanized.
Additionally, transporting colonies from geographic region to geographic region has caused the spread of Varroa.
Beekeeping is much more complicated now and unless you are pulling the frames out of your super and extracting the honey yourself, it is likely that you are not getting pure unadulterated honey.
Wow, I’d like to hope the raw honey I buy is not made with HFCS.
You might find this interesting: male gymnasts use honey with chalk on the wooden parallel bars. Gymnasts bring their own, even to the Olympics. Most gymnasts preferred the horrible dollar store “honey” that has a bee pictured on the front but comes from China and has never been in a hive for sure. Treasured for its perfect sticky quality, that stuff was NOT honey. And I ended up buying it a lot for my son!
The Round Up people will tell you that Round Up does not kill bees and they are technically correct.
However, it appears that Round Up does weaken bees’ immune systems, and compromise a bee’s ability to communicate and navigate.
If a bee can not communicate or navigate, she is going to die.
There is a unique sickness to honey and I can’t describe it, but I can tell if its real honey or sugar water honey.
I am not talking about buying from the stores. We have loads of places, farmsteads and such around here that both produce their own honey and rebrand it from trusted sources.
I am interested in beekeeping, and always make it a point to find out. These are reputable places of high quality.
As I said, I have no idea about the honey found in supermarket chains and such. What you say may well be true, and I don’t dispute that.
There is a unique stickiness to honey.....
Bees die on flowers with radioactive fallout:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTvIZvds6Fg
The term settled science is an oxymoron.
Just not back in my house. Had one hiding around for three days before it finally left.
Have been a beekeeper for 14 years now, and do farmer’s market now and then. Currently 7 hives.
Honey from small guys like me is raw honey made from nectar, not HFCS. HFCS *IS* used when starting a hive, as the initial bee package comes with a can of it for their use during transport. After that, small beekeeper’s hives produce the real stuff. I’ll note that during the spring when there are no or few nectar sources, we feed sugar water (using table sugar) and in the fall to prepare for winter as well. However, when feeding sugar-water, it is *WITHOUT* the honey collection boxes (honey “supers”) on the hive.
They thrive despite Algore’s non-stop energy wasting
Yes...we need MORE bat guano for the garden!
This summer we have had 2 or 3 every week, flapping in the house at nightfall.
At dusk we have a small *flock* every evening. I’m grateful they are eating the mosquitoes which have been terrible this year.
I don’t know how the little browns are getting in, but they do. We have a routine for catching them. Lucky I kept the butterfly nets my grand daughter used. :)
Just scoop up and out the door you go...
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