Don’t tell anyone... The govt’s gonna’ make us eat them.
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.
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
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
I for one am alarmed at the drastic drop in the population of emus and ostriches.
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”....///
Whatever happened to those Murder Hornets everyone was freaking out about around 4 years ago?
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.
If they wanna sting you better let 'em!
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.
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.
later
I have nothing against bees, but what annoys me is that people in this region call yellowjackets bees. Totally different creatures.
So, was any cause for the colony collapse ever discovered?
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...
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
Whew! I’m glad I can cross this off the worry list!
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.
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.