This is honeybee abstraction cuckery.

How about exploring the relationship between colony collapse disorder (CCD) and the soil quality's impact on pollen quality. Why not look critically at monocropping and conventional chemical fagriculture?

If atrozine is making the frogs gay, just imagine what it's doing (and all the other bullshit they spray) to all the lady bees we need to pollinate our food.

#permies

https://www.israel21c.org/now-robo-bees-are-pollinating-avocados-and-blueberries/

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Ah the age old fiat habit of finding every explanation but the cause!

Why are bees dying? Must be [insert bullshit reason] and CERTAINLY NOT the chemicals we spray everywhere!

Why are the youth rioting in France? Must be [insert bullshit reason] and CERTAINLY NOT that the police state murdered a teenager and then lied about it!

Just examples, but I could certainly go on…

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I've hardly seen any honey bees around here this year.

That's messed up bro. I remember when I was little in the Midwest we'd have hella bees everywhere. Are the bees up in Michigan Africanized?

No africanized bees here.

Nah fuck this shit. Plant flowers.

I remember this show about bees being trucked around farm to farm to help pollinate crops. We have to do better!

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/02/24/517076055/episode-756-the-bees-go-to-california

πŸ’―. We gotta take it upon ourselves. The same way we plant endemic or native fruits along with exotics. Flowers gotta be added to the seed bombs.

There was a Netflix documentary back in the dizzay that started with beekeepers in the Alps and also showed the beekeepers trucking bee boxes for almonds, peaches, blueberries etc in the US. Imma check out that pod 🀝🀝.

Now I have to find that Netflix doc