> 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.
The misnomer colony collapse is a historic phenomenon and has nothing to do with the modern world the Left loves to hate. If bees can’t compete in the modern world then they always have extinction. I mean, that’s the history of the world: extinction. If we need bees we’ll figure out a way to keep them around.
The history of mankind is we don’t let valuable resources go to waste.