Posted on 08/02/2017 9:25:13 AM PDT by upchuck
It's a Bloomberg story published on the Ag Web site so link only:
https://www.agweb.com/article/good-news-for-bees-as-numbers-recover-while-mystery-malady-wanes-blmg/
Bad news for Henry Winkler.
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.
Maybe this is why there’s so bloody much clover in my yard this year...
Varroa mites.
Ruh Roh...ALGORE is going to have to come out with a movie update. Nahh!
less and less gmos as the public demands gmo free food.
Global warming must have gotten better
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
Western Hemisphere honey bees are not native, or at least not aboriginal. They originated in Europe and were imported here in the colonial era.
The Bee Malady tracks alongside Algore’s believability index...
In other words, things ebb and flow in nature, and everything eventually returns to stasis.
So QUIT PANICKING over one-year snapshots!
You are correct, native is the wrong term, domestic is more appropriate.
Feral African bees are displacing domesticated honeybees.
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!
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.
And doing the stinging domestic honeybees are too lazy to do
They know obambi is no longer in office
Bees for Trump.
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