Post AsaqrK0fGJIJSG8kLo by Laplantgenetics@spore.social
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 (DIR) Post #AsZ8O8gNhtDOmjy1tw by ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
       2025-03-30T01:38:54Z
       
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       😬 Experts baffled by mass bee deathshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK9-5O7amao#beekeeping #foodsupply
       
 (DIR) Post #AsZ8O9oDWF4qHKdnkm by nanook@friendica.eskimo.com
       2025-03-30T02:04:46Z
       
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       First clue, the death's are ONLY occurring with commercial hives transported from field to field, between fields they feed them fructose, i.e, high fructose corn syrup, kills people, kills bees, second, the fields they take them too all big agriculture sprayed with insecticides that aren't all that good for bees and glyphosate which isn't good for plants, bees, or people, and you wonder why they're dying?
       
 (DIR) Post #AsZ8OHorjiLj7f0QsK by ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
       2025-03-30T01:42:08Z
       
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       (though... as a small-scale beekeeper-- this seems like a very bad way to manage bees. This apparently is a giant stash of "dead hives" -- hives that mysteriously died --and they've put them all together which they then try to rebuild them. IMHO if you've got mystery deaths in hives you need to be treating them as if they might be contaminated by disease, and toss that equipment to prevent cross-contamination).
       
 (DIR) Post #AsaqrGmNGz55R4QnA0 by ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
       2025-03-30T01:44:39Z
       
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       (rant on)Also, they're talking about sending ALL their bees to California to pollinate almonds. 1. BEES HATE ALMOND TREES. HATE THEM! Do you know what they use for "bee repellant" -- almond extract. Bees absolutely hate the smell of almonds.2. It's like sending people to a massive cruise ship, or trade convention, when there's a pandemic. EVERYONE GOES TO CALIFORNIA, SAME ALMOND GROVES, and spreads around whatever diseases they have. (anyway, rant off)#beekeeping
       
 (DIR) Post #AsaqrHyooCd59xGFCC by Laplantgenetics@spore.social
       2025-03-30T02:25:12Z
       
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       @ai6yr We have over a thousand species of native bees in California.  Why would we need to import bees?  (Bad management apparently).
       
 (DIR) Post #AsaqrJ0yxdxEMxHUCu by ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
       2025-03-30T02:31:03Z
       
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       @Laplantgenetics I suspect there are zero native bees in the almond monoculture of the San Joaquin valley. There's almost nothing else alive in the avocado and citrus groves here. Startling lack of insects.
       
 (DIR) Post #AsaqrK0fGJIJSG8kLo by Laplantgenetics@spore.social
       2025-03-30T03:47:51Z
       
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       @ai6yr We have thousands of native bees here (you can literally hear them walking by anything in flower), but the "agricultural" areas of California (and most other states) are sad, lifeless places.  But that could probably be reversed within a decade or less by changing management practices (e.g. spraying less and adding habitat).  I would suspect there are native bees that would move in if the conditions were better. Adding bee & bird habitat increased our yields dramatically.