[ExI] Bee dieoff cause found?

[Adrian Tymes]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:34 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

> Genetic engineering that makes antibodies in the venom, then causes the
> little bastards to sting each other?
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> Somehow make a specific antibody, then genetically modify mosquitoes to
> take up the medication, then go bite the bees?
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Or a virus to seek out and destroy this other virus.


> It might be that any strategy we try is at best a temporary solution
>

Well yeah.  Sun ain't going to be around forever.  Eventually we may wish
to make micro-g-adapted bees, at which point genetically engineering the
bees is likely to be necessary anyway.
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