When I was a kid a sizable number of the local farms kept hives. These days its far less common.
People who worry about “colony collapse” should take up beekeeping.
> When I was a kid a sizable number of the local farms kept hives. These days its far less common.
>People who worry about “colony collapse” should take up beekeeping.
The story is about Bumblebees not Honeybees.
Unlike honeybees who have large hives, bumblebees live in tiny hives of about 50 workers and a queen. Because these hives are so small, they aren’t suitable for commercial exploitation. Still, they suffer from the same problems as the honeybees, i.e., colony collapse syndrome and susceptibility to pesticides and other problems.
Good idea. The problem with all these media stories is that they’re essentially frauds. They’re taking advantage of scientifically ignorant people (many of whom were taught to be idiots and illogical via government schools). How is that different than the sellers of snake oil? These articles aren’t researched beyond sensationalism. They’re garbage.
According to bee keepers hives die off over the winter and are restored fairly easily. We have enough hives and the system is working. We’re dealing with a level of ignorance that makes the wrongly called Dark Ages look bright by comparison.
It’s Pavlovian the way the Left reaches out, strokes primitive emotion and gets the reaction they want. Actually, it’s devilish.