[ExI] Australian bee heists

spike at rainier66.com spike at rainier66.com
Wed Sep 23 23:44:08 UTC 2026



-----Original Message-----
From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of
Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
Subject: [ExI] Australian bee heists

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/more-than-800000-bees-worth-tens-o
f-thousands-of-dollars-have-been-stolen-in-sophisticated-heists-across-north
ern-australia-180989545/

I wonder if AI safety filters would prevent their use for this kind of
crime, or if this could plausibly have been planned with AI.
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Thx Adrian.

Theft has always been a big problem for beekeepers.  Australian bees are
valuable because they are (for some reason) the most varroa resistant queens
on the planet (they were in the olden days (I need to get back up to speed
on how things are now.))

spike



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