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If colony collapse was a bad as we were told the price of honey would have reflected it with sharp increases. While honey has increased in price, I didn't notice astronomical price increases or shortages of ordinary honey. My wife uses a lot of honey as a sweeter in drinks and recipes, so I have had an eye on this. I have noticed that there are more products on the shelves today listing honey as a ingredient than there were when the beepocalypse alarm was raised years ago, which means some of the price increase may have been because of increased demand.
1 posted on 04/02/2024 9:06:09 PM PDT by chickenlips
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Don’t tell anyone... The govt’s gonna’ make us eat them.


2 posted on 04/02/2024 9:17:54 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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One of the few positives of the past four years has been the resurgence of home gardens, whether for food, flowers, or general landscape. Many of these plants provide food for the pollinators. So, when the Biden administration says that home gardens for food are more damaging than commercial farms, they are dead wrong.


3 posted on 04/02/2024 9:17:56 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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Thank goodness the soft-spoken lady on YouTube who goes around helping people who don’t want insect hives in their houses will still be around. She always talks about saving the beeeees. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w3AOC9N7Z4w


4 posted on 04/02/2024 9:19:19 PM PDT by Reddy (BO stinks)
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The USDA has all kinds of charts

Total USA hives are down

Total USA beekeepers are steadily declining (more work Americans don’t want to do)

Production per hive steadily up (professionals are getting better at it)

Imports of honey also steadily up


5 posted on 04/02/2024 9:22:47 PM PDT by PGR88
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I for one am alarmed at the drastic drop in the population of emus and ostriches.


6 posted on 04/02/2024 9:33:28 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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Michelle Obama has always wondered if that “Save the B’s!!”
campaign was actually some ironic, racist dogwhistle really meant to insult black women. Barack says she is “over thinking it”....///


7 posted on 04/02/2024 9:35:27 PM PDT by lee martell
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Whatever happened to those Murder Hornets everyone was freaking out about around 4 years ago?


8 posted on 04/02/2024 9:46:28 PM PDT by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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These idiots are spiking the ball on colony collapse disorder on the backs of the hard working bee keepers doing everything we can to keep the population as high as possible.

Thanks guys.


11 posted on 04/02/2024 9:55:59 PM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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The bees are back in town.

If they wanna sting you better let 'em!

12 posted on 04/02/2024 10:09:57 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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Honey bees are a non native invasive species that drive cavity dwelling songbirds, woodpeckers and cavity nesting small animals out of their homes and reduce the number of suitable nesting cavities.

During the beepocalypse they somehow failed to mention that, while screaming that all our crops would fail to produce without honeybees. Honeybees are back strong as ever and they are now wondering where some species of songbirds have gone.
It *must* be global warming, not the reduction in family farms, increase in birds of prey that target songbirds, or increase in bees.

In spite of the fact that much of our food comes from New World plants that performed well four hundreds if not thousands of years without the presence of European honey bees, they cursed only gloom and doom. Crops like peanuts, maygrass,marsh elder, corn, crab apples, plums, tomatoes, peppers, avocados, quinoa, amaranth, sweet potatoes, maple, blueberries, blackberries, cucurbits, regular potatoes, etc. They glossed over that there are numerous native species that pollinated crops in the New World all along because that would have tempered the hysteria.


13 posted on 04/02/2024 10:22:38 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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And next year it'll bee back beecause.. hive mentality. Apis bee on all their houses er hives.

What is the deal with llamas? Is it time to put up “Save the Llamas” signs? Are facing a llamapocalypse? I’m not sure why there were llama herds in the first place, so it is hard to know why they have declined.

This has always bee a question in the Hebrew world, so if you come to a Y in the road, stick with it.

15 posted on 04/03/2024 2:58:50 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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later


16 posted on 04/03/2024 3:20:37 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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I have nothing against bees, but what annoys me is that people in this region call yellowjackets bees. Totally different creatures.


17 posted on 04/03/2024 3:36:04 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Nothing says "Democracy" like throwing your opponents in jail.)
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So, was any cause for the colony collapse ever discovered?


20 posted on 04/03/2024 5:18:35 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (The Truth is like a lion. You don't need to defend it. Let it loose and it woill defend itself.)
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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...


21 posted on 04/03/2024 5:23:15 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Bur he is at the head of the line waBut)
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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


23 posted on 04/03/2024 5:25:58 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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Whew! I’m glad I can cross this off the worry list!


25 posted on 04/03/2024 5:39:25 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.c)
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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.


27 posted on 04/03/2024 6:02:44 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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Another government lie.


28 posted on 04/03/2024 6:04:51 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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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.


34 posted on 04/03/2024 7:30:40 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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