Posted on 04/02/2024 9:06:09 PM PDT by chickenlips
Fifteen or twenty years ago, and for some years following, there was a great deal of publicity about bee colonies dying out. The cause of the decline was unclear, but most people assumed it was somehow our fault. Where I live, “Save the Bees” signs started cropping up in yards and in front of apartment dwellings, along with “All Are Welcome Here” and “We Believe In Science.” Some people let their lawns go wild, not, as one might suspect, because they were too lazy to mow, but because they hoped a weed-filled lawn would be good habitat for bees.
But it seems the signs can come down now, as the Washington Post headlines: “Wait, does America suddenly have a record number of bees?”
After almost two decades of relentless colony collapse coverage and years of grieving suspiciously clean windshields, we were stunned to run the numbers on the new Census of Agriculture (otherwise known as that wonderful time every five years where the government counts all the llamas): America’s honeybee population has rocketed to an all-time high.
We’ve added almost a million bee colonies in the past five years. We now have 3.8 million, the census shows. Since 2007, the first census after alarming bee die-offs began in 2006, the honeybee has been the fastest-growing livestock segment in the country! And that doesn’t count feral honeybees, which may outnumber their captive cousins several times over.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
Not only does the federal government count every llama and bee colony, they somehow manage to count just about every other farm raised animal and fowl.
They have determined that at the time of the 2022 Census of Agriculture there were 1,737,674,957 chickens.
Not 1,737,674,956, not 1,737,674,958, but exactly 1,737,674,957 !!!
And we thought they were wasting all of our tax money on illegal aliens and financing both sides of hot wars around the globe...
It must have been the need to push honey prices up.....
I saw two honey bees this week. Honey bees have been absent for years now.
Somewhere near there is a colony that survived the winter.
My last colony died in 1990 something
Lack of genetic diversity is also an issue.
Whew! I’m glad I can cross this off the worry list!
It's the kind of intel that comes out of left field.
I had a friend that was a beekeeper.
I asked him about this, back when it was happening.
He said it was a joke, and the people spreading this crap did not know what they were talking about.
I believed him.
And the bee decimation people hated me.
Another government lie.
I had a friend that was a beekeeper.
I asked him about this, back when it was happening.
He said it was a joke, and the people spreading this crap did not know what they were talking about.
I believed him.
And the bee decimation people hated me.
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Truly a case of fake news, the negative waves
of relentless colony collapse coverage and years of grieving suspiciously
Because who doesn't know that it all started with 13 colonies, and
We now have 3.8 million, the census shows.
Yup. My sentiment exactly. More gaslighting.
Gees...
/s
Wow, that was amazing
Doesn't bother me a bit.
Every scare for the last 60 years the elites have “assumed it was somehow our fault.”
Greenhouse Effect
Coming ice age,
Global warming
PCBs
Dioxin
magnetic fields of force causing cancer
DDT
Radon
loss of Prairie dogs
Loss of Polar bears
Killer Bees
death of bees
Murder wasps
Kudzu.
Weed killers
And the list goes on and on and on.
And what happened to all the deaf frog stories? They were a sign of an eco apocalypse
I thought some of it was due to parasites.
I once had a stunningly intelligent encounter with a bee. I was sitting outdoors with a tumbler of apple juice on the wrought iron patio table in front of me. A bee dipped down into the tumbler to drink from the juice. One wing got wet, and suddenly he could not free himself to fly up. As he flapped around with his one free wing, he started to come close to sinking and drowning .
I picked up a large dried leaf from the table by the stem end, carefully scooped the bee up out of the juice.
He shook himself and flew upwards in the away direction, but then paused in the air, flew back to face me at eye level, and seesawed his wings side to side for an instant, then turned and flew off. It was clear as day, a “thank you” gesture.
How many are left after they have burned down several of the chicken farms?
Verona Mites.
LOL
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