tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post4642016945722500835..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: About BeesAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-25093035663647744732017-05-25T09:24:55.947-04:002017-05-25T09:24:55.947-04:00Ah. So one source of the spread might be keepers ...Ah. So one source of the spread might be keepers moving bees from one zone to another, with little hitchhikers aboard?jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-80388633350750401152017-05-25T05:09:20.308-04:002017-05-25T05:09:20.308-04:00It would take a bit of google-fu for me to find a ...It would take a bit of google-fu for me to find a link but I remember​ a couple of points from an article on colony collapse that I read in the last year or so. One was that while the scope is wider this is not a new phenomenon. A certain percentage of bee colonies have always failed for unexplained reasons. The second point was that a lot of the publicity of the problem is being driven by a small number of very large bee keepers who rent their bees as pollinators rather than for honey production, and for whom it is a big issue. There was also a strong implication that those keepers were not willing to accept any explanation that might indicate a need to change their husbandry practices or business model.Christopher Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00396671757183163171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-42111550114761488992017-05-24T21:29:06.356-04:002017-05-24T21:29:06.356-04:00The infographic is kind of misleading. Pesticides...The infographic is kind of misleading. Pesticides are represented by a small tab, as is nutrition, even though nutrition is mentioned as one of the big factors in bee mortality.<br /><br />One of my daughters was looking into keeping bees--I should ask her about this.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.com