Posted on 04/02/2024 9:06:09 PM PDT by chickenlips
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?
I got mail today from some organization that wants money to help “save the critically endangered bees”.
Bees wouldn’t bee bad. They are sweet with honey. Beetles probly taste like sh!t.
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.
Sent them home.
Turns out that per serving they were too nutritious.
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 if you come to a Y in the road, stick with it.”
Funny but I always thought the alphabet had 25 letters. I’ve pondered but I just don’t know why.
Stop eating dung beetles!
So, was any cause for the colony collapse ever discovered?
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