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Bye Bye Bees

“If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left.”—Albert Einstein

why worry  that’s why

more to know do you already

hulme

comments welcome

Here is my two cents worth

Long ago crops were pollinated by local bees.  Not enough bees for one big 7,000 acre blueberry farm blooming all at once. So a beekeeper shows up with a few 18 wheeler’s of rent-a-bee  thereby putting an incredible  number of bees on the job with the blueberries then it is off to California to do the Pecan Nuts.  The primary cash flow for these mobile  beekeepers is not honey.  It is the  pollination – and yeah – they’ll selling the bee’s honey - and feeding the bees corn sugar – what we get in our soft drinks.  Did you know we were so far down this monoculture road?  This is no way for a bee to live and many won’t. 

colony_collapse_disorder

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