60% of bees dead from certain type of chemicals.. If enough bees die, humans will too. Pollination by bees is essential. Listen to this please
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I am a beekeeper, and am aware of the die-off.
What is NOT mentioned is the majority of this decline is affecting COMMERCIAL beekeepers. I run my county bee club and our winter losses were normal.
Did you know that almonds alone in California require 1.5-1.6M colonies of bees for pollination? A crop that isn’t even native to the US? Bees are trucked from all over the country to California to sit on a monocrop for an entire brood cycle. Not to mention the chemical pest treatments that are required by contract. There are plenty of research facilities studying this issue right now with no single factor cause emerging. This also happened in 2008 and was dubbed Colony Collapse Disorder, due to multiple causes.
IMHO, bees were not created to be ridden hard and put up wet. Pollinate local farms and orchards instead. And for the love of God, monoculture kills native insects and soils.
I thought I read recently how chlorine dioxide can help bees, to kill off all the things getting them...
Have you read that in your studies?
I have not come across that topic; but I don’t chemically treat my colonies, so there is that.
Why is it that the "nice" bees die off? ---- and get replaced with the wild murderous bastards that sting you through your gloves?
What happened to that terrible, TERRIBLE disaster when KILLER African Honey Bees were rampaging up USA some years ago?
My honest opinion?
The “Africanized” bees escaped in South America in 1956. Since half of the crossbreed is Apis mellifera (European honeybee), I would think that over the last 70 years the Apis m. scuttellata genes would have bred down significantly, since queens are replaced by the colony every year or so and new queens mate outside of their colony specifically for genetic diversity.
I have had hives that were extra spicy; they just get inspected less than the others. And in a season or two, the colony will have replaced their queen and be as nice as kittens. All behavior is based on Queen genetics. The only way to truly tell if a colony is Africanized is via genetic autopsy.
Granted, I am in North Texas where “Africanized” bees have been supposedly found and I have no idea about the current state of affairs down in the valley. But as a keeper I do know the proper conditions (weather and timing) for opening a bee hive without deliberately pissing them off. Inexperienced keepers may not yet understand those conditions and be the reason for angry bees and not genetics.
Central Texas here.
I've had some nice Italians that were pets --- crawl on your hand and be sweet. You could talk to them like a friend.
The wild bees here are evil bastards ---- they only want to kill you and your children ---- and your dog.
depends on the bees
My granddad would rob his hives with no suit ---- He probably had Italian bees.
Still here
My friend has Africanized hives ------ he has to wear full body armor and work on his hives at night with a red light.