[ExI] Honey fraud

[MB]

OMGoodness....  I never noticed this, but it's true. My windshield is 
dirty but it's from sap and dust and road dirt - not bugs.  I don't 
recall the last time I scraped dead bugs off my windshield, but it used 
to be all the time, now not.

That *is* scary.  I'm on the other side of the USA from you, spike. 
Suburban/rural with small farms. :(

There are plenty of bugs in my garden but mostly they are the gnat, 
skeeters, and no-see-um varieties.  And ticks, if they count.

Regards,
MB

spike jones via extropy-chat wrote:

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> Regarding protecting bees, a recent observation worries me.  In a way, bees are doing better than we think.  They are declining, but all bugs are.  I drove to Spokane Washington, a bit over 900 miles one way, thru farm country for a lot of the way.  All the way up, we hit no bugs.  On the way back, my windshield swatted exactly one bug, one point zero bugs.  I used to hit dozens either way.  Now one for the round trip.
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> That represents a lot bigger and more sudden environmental change than global warming methinks.
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