Shipping the hives all over the place certainly does not help
Maybe there’s something else going on...
RobertABrownInc 🐝 yikes!
I remember studying varroa mites during a short research project 20 y ago. Our hypothesis was that they would drop from the bees when visiting flowers then hop on to the next visiting bee, therefore potentially infesting another hive. I wonder if that's been demonstrated since.
Maybe if beekeepers did not take them all to California every spring so that they can exchange their pathogens? A perfect recipe for ensuring the success of any infectious disease or parasite!
JoyRhoades1 The first is true! I can confirm that, because the temperatures in my home town rise over 50 degrees in the summer and this is fatally for the bees. The pesticides also cause such results.
keep spraying pesticides
Trust me there's enough bees, just like everything else they adapt found better places to hide
Easy way to wipe out the human race. Or hasn't that occurred to anyone. Everyone should be planting flowers instead of grass. More wild flower meadows the better. Many communities ban this. not enough neat looking little cookie cutter yards for them.
Is being misgendered or 'dead named' one of the stressors bees face? If not, I think they should just suck it up while we deal with these more important issues.
Cc staciewrites
Bees had a tough time when the Ice Age ended and things warmed, but they'll still around. They've probably survived mites as well one time or another. Countdown until someone declares this a 'crisis'?
We worry about chemicals, and a tiny mite closes in. We really need to work harder to save bees. Seriously.
do they like jazz?
Hey dicks it's not us its them.
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