A member sent this great bee article...
"The only honeybees left—i.e., the ones that started disappearing in October" (of 2007) "—had become the cows of the insect world: virtually extinct in the wild, hopped up on antibiotics, and more likely to reproduce via artificial insemination than by their own recognizance. "
It is sad but true...
Fed HFCS and under attack by varroa mites, bees are at the mercy of agri-business. We are lucky at my farm to have a bounty of native pollinators, bubble bees, mason bees, and others...
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