<div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Bees in France have a really hard time with the murder hornets. Last time I looked, the hornets had spread as far as Spain. European bees have no defense, and a hornet nest can clean out a hive in a few hours.<br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">When this first happened, I tried to connect them with Jordan Kare's company, which had a laser bug zapper that figured out what it was about to blast. Installed on bee hives, it could have burned the hornets out of the air and protected the bees. But I had no luck in connecting them.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">The UK gets a few of these hornets that are blown or fly over the channel every year, but so far, they have kept them under control. <br></div><br>Keith<br></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 1:20 PM ilsa via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Hahahahahahahaah</div><div dir="auto">For a number of years while my daughter went to the Waldorf elementary School in valley forge Pennsylvania I got to see hands On beekeeping it was wonderful </div><div dir="auto">And then I just discovered a French organization that is working endlessly to protect bees from modern annihilation! Your articles made me giggle, ilsa</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#ffffff"><font color="#ff0000">Ilsa Bartlett</font></font><div><font color="#ffffff"><font color="#ff0000"><font color="#3333ff">Institute for Rewiring the System</font></font></font><br><a href="http://ilsabartlett.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://ilsabartlett.wordpress.com</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.google.com/profiles/ilsa.bartlett" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/profiles/ilsa.bartlett</a><br><a href="http://www.hotlux.com/angel.htm" target="_blank">www.hotlux.com/angel</a><br><br>"Don't ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person."<br>-John Coltrane</div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 10:16 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 1:11 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Easy solution: leave off with all store-bought honey.<br>
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And buy from specialty places? How can she be sure they aren't diluting either?<br>
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> Adrian do urge your friend to get a hobby hive. They are not expensive, and the needle-ass bitches make entertaining pets.<br>
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She's way too busy to tend to one. (She's my wife and trying to keep<br>
up with me - and succeeding well enough, enabling me to go further.)<br>
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