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Parasites and pesticides have brought chaos to bee colonies throughout the world. Natural beekeepers want to transform our relationship to t
Truth! I’m of the same school as this guy in Oxfordshire. The commercialization of bees in very bad, a microcosm of all that’s wrong with the agro economy
With the help of a local beekeeper, San Jose’s Rory Hu launched an experiment where artificial flowers helped boost learning within bee colo
May 1 swarm catch at Grupe Park, Stockton, CA. 5-6 lbs. hanging from a redwood limb that was about to break off. Someone (park staff or police?) cordoned off the area with caution tape. We brought them home and installed them the next day into an previously occupied hive that we hasilty cleaned up for them.
Why the German government is making a big effort to protect bees.
During emergency queen rearing, worker honey bees (Apis mellifera) select several otherwise worker-destined larvae to instead rear as candidates to replace their dead or failing queen. This choice is crucial as the queen is the sole reproductive in the colony and her quality is essential to its success. Because honey bee queens mate with and store sperm from multiple drones, emergency queen selection presents workers with an opportunity to increase fitness by selecting full- (0.75 relatedness), rather than half- (0.25 relatedness), sisters as new queen candidates. Through patriline analysis of colonies along with large numbers of emergency queens reared by each we affirm the purported “royal” patriline theory that, instead of competing nepotistically, workers exhibit bias towards selecting individuals from particular “royal” subfamilies during emergency queen rearing events, Further, we show that these “royal” patrilines are cryptic in honey bee colonies; occurring in such low frequency in the overall colony population that they are frequently undetected in traditional tests of queen mating number and colony composition. The identification of these cryptic “royal” subfamilies reveals that honey bee queens, already considered “hyperpolyandrous,” are mating with even more males than has been previously recognized. These results alter our understanding of reproductive behavior in honey bees, raising questions about the evolutionary implications of this phenomenon.
Street Artist Brings Awareness To The Declining Bee Colonies Due To Urbanization On Stunning Street Murals
Louis Masai Michel is a global street artist who has conquered the streets of London, where the intriguing subject of his art has contagiously been picked up in Bristol, Devon, Glastonbury, Croatia, New York, Miami, and New Orleans as well as get many other art endorsers on board throughout the world. The humble and busy bee is making it’s way around the street, in swarms of beautiful large murals that bring focus to its plight. In a bid to save the species from colony collapse and the series implications that arise, Michel started on the project straight after a trip from South Africa, where he learned about them and was inspired to turn to his art to solve this environmental issue.
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“EpiPen maker failed to investigate product failures associated with patient deaths, FDA says https://t.co/SgfQLOau7w”
Add "indifference" to list of pejoratives describing Mylan's attitude toward EpiPen's safety and affordability. cf. exploitation, predatory
Swarm Call Education
I got a swarm call yesterday, from a woman in Palo Alto. By the time I returned the call the bees had met their demise. She explained, sheepishly that her husband had blasted them with a garden hose because “we couldn’t go outside without being attacked”. In the same breath she added, “we love bees”.
Tragically, my two minute explanation of swarm behavior and what to do next time she sees a swarm came too late. It’s beyond discouraging that people know and care more about the latest iOS and who was expelled from the island on Survivor than how natural processes work right outside their front door. Bee swarming is awesome to witness, and becomes even more beautiful once you understand this process of species propagation.
220 million pounds of glyphosate were used in 2015 in the United States, and there's no true consensus on its safety.
Ben Eichorn posted this to Bay Nature's excellent blog/forum recently. In it, he writes, "Nothing is wrong with the bees. Something is wrong, however, with the way we are attempting to bend nature to our will." Touché! His post echoes many arguments I've made in recent years in a variety of contexts ranging from the nativist plant and landscape movement and the Trump Administration's travel ban to CCD and the struggles faced by migrant workers, and even peak oil. At the heart of these arguments is my strong belief that our hubris is misguided and the underlying fallacy that we can engineer or "free market" (to coin a verb) our way out of any problem has become sacrosanct. To challenge mankind's superiority, or to suggest that we often do better by cooperating with nature than trying to overcome it, is viewed dimly by many ideologists. Not least of these ideologs is that of unrestrained capitalism, whose evangelists believe some invisible force will correct any damage caused at the hands of highly capitalized free market behavior.
This proposed Minnesota legislation is incremental and woefully in adequate. It assumes that neonicotinoid use is necessary. Minnesota should be applauded for this action, but this underscores just how powerful the agrochemical industry is in their profit seeking, which is undermining our food system, the environment and our health.
It's not just honey bees that are in decline, but wild bees too. According to this American Bee Journal piece, the worse declines are in large agricultural regions, which stand to lose the most from bee population declines.
Some Black Mirror episodes portray more plausible scenarios than others. This one (“Hated in the Nation”, S3:E6), dealing with government surveillence, a soulless corporation, social media, and the decline of honey bees, is not only the best episode thus far (IMHO), but also one of the most plausible. The ingredients necessary for this dark future to become a reality are already in place, or in advanced stages of well funded research. The episode describes the recipe. May the concoction never be made.
The irony is that today's honey bee gene pool doesn't have much resistance to the viruses and parasites that are weakening them, and the other big threat - neonicotinoid pesticides - probably will always weaken them, regardless of genetics. So, why save the sperm? Sounds like a science project.
Apparently, the DOJ permitted Mylan to avoid any admission of wrongdoing in this high profile case.
Will this measure deter the use of pesticides?
