[ExI] Science had an article about hwat is kiling bees. virusesspread by miyrd.

[spike at rainier66.com]

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bees. virusesspread by miyrd.

It seems possible to engineer a fly paper that would stick to mites but nou
bees.

Spread this idea around.

Keith


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Thx Kieth.  This has been all the buzz in the beekeeper community.  Back in
the olden days, amitraz would whoop the mites' asses.  Now it appears they
have evolved around it.

https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-identify-culprit-behind-b
iggest-ever-u-s-honeybee-die

Its why beekeeping is so difficult: the bee parasites evolve more quickly
than the bees.  By using amatrax and the other miticides, we make the
problem worse in the long run, because we don't select the mite-resistant
bees.

But amitraz selects the amitraz-resistant mites.

While that industry struggles, please do your old uncle spike a big favor
and DON'T EAT HONEY.  Just don't do it.  Leave that on the shelf, put
something else in whatever it is you thought needs honey, do your part to
reduce the price of honey, so more beekeepers will let their bees devour
their own honey in the winter, rather than what we do to them: take their
honey, then feed them with corn syrup.

Bees can live on corn syrup, however... we use neonicotinoids on our corn to
keep the pests offa that.  Then we make corn syrup outta that corn, the
neonics make it into the corn syrup and weaken the bees fed on corn syrup.

What's that you say?  Nicotine is poison?  Who knew?

So do your part.  Don't buy honey, don't eat it in the restaurant if they
supply it.  The bees work like... well... bees to make that stuff, so...
it's theirs.

Fun aside: in the olden days the grove man was willing to give the bee man
all the space he wanted, but didn't pay him.  Over time, the market for
honey and wax have diminished YAAAAY but the price went way up BOOOO.  So
now grove man pays the bee man, which means the bee man is less dependent on
extraction.

Oh hey, idea!  Extraction!  If you are tempted to eat honey, find out where
the local centrifugal honey extraction facility is located, then ask if you
can see it in person.  Once you see the real world process, you won't touch
the damn stuff.  You won't be able to unsee it.  It is worse than a sausage
factory in its way.  It will make you barf.  But it will be a good barf.

spike