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Good News for Bees as Numbers Recover While Mystery Malady Wanes
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| Aug 1, 2017
Posted on 08/02/2017 9:25:13 AM PDT by upchuck
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Weren't we told Globull Warming was responsible for some of this?
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posted on
08/02/2017 9:25:13 AM PDT
by
upchuck
To: upchuck
Bad news for Henry Winkler.
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posted on
08/02/2017 9:28:06 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: upchuck
I’m going to guess that mother nature took care of a problem (as usual) and the new bees will be super bees....working twice as fast as the old bees.
To: Sacajaweau
Maybe this is why there’s so bloody much clover in my yard this year...
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posted on
08/02/2017 9:31:38 AM PDT
by
jurroppi1
(The Left doesnÂ’t have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
To: upchuck
There was no mystery except to people who write articles for newspapers apparently.
Varroa mites.
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posted on
08/02/2017 9:31:48 AM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
To: upchuck
Ruh Roh...ALGORE is going to have to come out with a movie update. Nahh!
To: upchuck
less and less gmos as the public demands gmo free food.
Global warming must have gotten better
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posted on
08/02/2017 9:37:24 AM PDT
by
dsrtsage
(One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
To: upchuck
Bee populations here are soaring.
Of course, the reason is because the hyper aggressive African bees have made it here and they have a much higher rate of reproduction and they are freezing out the native honeybees.
Not sure that’s a good thing
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posted on
08/02/2017 9:38:57 AM PDT
by
rdcbn
To: rdcbn
Western Hemisphere honey bees are not native, or at least not aboriginal. They originated in Europe and were imported here in the colonial era.
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posted on
08/02/2017 9:41:29 AM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
(Who'd'a thunkit?)
To: DannyTN
The Bee Malady tracks alongside Algore’s believability index...
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posted on
08/02/2017 9:44:00 AM PDT
by
Gman
To: upchuck
In other words, things ebb and flow in nature, and everything eventually returns to stasis.
So QUIT PANICKING over one-year snapshots!
To: Mrs. Don-o
You are correct, native is the wrong term, domestic is more appropriate.
Feral African bees are displacing domesticated honeybees.
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posted on
08/02/2017 9:49:22 AM PDT
by
rdcbn
To: upchuck
I'd say Trump Effect but I'm not sure how the bees would know.
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posted on
08/02/2017 9:51:18 AM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: Sacajaweau
My Dad and brother keep bees and have lost several hives over the last few years. The most resilient hives are the bees that they catch when they swarm from a hive not a kept hive, in other words a wild swarm.
They have noticed a drop in honey production from the hives that have survived the last few year as well. In some cases getting very little honey from their supers.
Hope this recovery continues!
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posted on
08/02/2017 9:57:17 AM PDT
by
sarge83
To: rdcbn
African bees have made it here and they have a much higher rate of reproduction and they are freezing out the native honeybees. Any sign of aggression and the beekeeper will subject the queen to the hive tool test (smash and replace her). All bees in the hive carry the genetics of the queen. Fix her, fix the hive.
The media terrorism about africanized bees back in the 70's was just the 1970's version of a pitbull story.
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posted on
08/02/2017 10:02:27 AM PDT
by
SeeSharp
To: rdcbn
...freezing out the native honeybees.
Typical bee colonial attitude.
The invaders are, in fact, doing the work that native bees simply won't do.
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posted on
08/02/2017 10:03:24 AM PDT
by
golux
To: Sacajaweau
super bees
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posted on
08/02/2017 10:09:27 AM PDT
by
tophat9000
(Tophat9000)
To: golux
And doing the stinging domestic honeybees are too lazy to do
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posted on
08/02/2017 10:10:50 AM PDT
by
rdcbn
To: upchuck
Bees are smart
They know obambi is no longer in office
Bees for Trump.
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posted on
08/02/2017 10:14:27 AM PDT
by
spokeshave
(The Fake Media tried to stop us from going to the White House, I am President and they are not. DJT)
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