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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Maybe they’re no longer on Obamacare?
It just confirms it was a natural cause, not man made. Another conspiracy theory goes *poof*.
Sooner or later, they will adapt. Sometimes it needs patience.
To bee or not to bee, that is the question.
There are some things in Nature that Al Gore can’t explain, and that’s the way Nature intended it to bee.
There just a bunch of WANABEES
It’s varroa which is killing colonies but there have been methods introduced to keep varroa under control. However, the neonics do complicate matters and weaken colonies making them more susceptible to the mites.
As for honey, there is very little real honey available as most of it is cut with HFCS or Chinese or Canadian honey. Even more honey out there is simply made by bees who consume sugar water or HFCS.
If you want real honey, take it from your own hive.
That is great news!
“It just confirms it was a natural cause, not man made.”
That’s not the case at all.
The stress on honeybees in man made.
Thanks for that info!
I did not know that part about the bees consuming HFCS. Talk about Franken-food!
The cure was man-made.
When conditions are poor, such as you are going into winter and the honey stores are in sufficed for a colony to survive until spring, you feed the bees sugar water and high operating feed HFCS.
However, a good beekeeper will pull the feeder off the hive and wait a while before adding a honey super.
The big operations will keep feeding the bees and sell the honey produced from HFCS.
Some things are just none of our beeswax!;)
Worker bees thriving under Trump deregulation. MAGA!
Is there any way to tell that from the label? If it’s at a farmer’s market, for instance, could it still be like that?
There is a local organic store that sells honey from a vat (weighed out) - I hope it’s good.
I live in a suburban area near Boston, and I can get pure unadulterated honey anytime I want. I probably have a dozen places within several miles I can get it.
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.
At a farmer’s market you should be okay.
I may not have the numbers exactly right, but in order to claim honey is “Local Honey,” it can contain 20% non local honey. Typically, honey producers will buy in bunk from Canada or China and cut their local honey with the imported honey. It’s still honey, but the thought of Chinese honey gives me the creeps.
Now, if you feed your bees HFCS or sugar, they will produce honey, but most people could tell the difference by taste. The fructose/glucose splits are not all that different.
Talk to the guy selling you the honey.
Sounds good, thanks.
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