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They keep saying that,I get stung at least once a year while working ,usually have a meter or two to skip because of bees.
 
Bees are so amazing! They defy evolution in so many ways!

I remember checking out a bee keeping book from my local library. It was so much information I could never finish the whole book. Nonetheless, it was not a waste of time.

Unfortunately, many bee keepers lose bees to our toxic pesticides and other chemical toxins. This lady has a lot of good points. We need bees!
 
Bees Are Bouncing Back From Colony Collapse Disorder
Colony Collapse Disorder losses are down 27% from 2016
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...seen-as-a-corporate-cure-all-suffers-slowdown

Bees are increasingly resistant to pesticides and parasites. How did that happen? Bees that have mutations that are more resistant to these things tend to survive and leave more offspring. So they are now spreading, and the remaining hives are mutants that are more resistant.

Darwin strikes again.
 
Barbarian said:
Bees Are Bouncing Back From Colony Collapse Disorder
Colony Collapse Disorder losses are down 27% from 2016
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...seen-as-a-corporate-cure-all-suffers-slowdown

Bees are increasingly resistant to pesticides and parasites. How did that happen? Bees that have mutations that are more resistant to these things tend to survive and leave more offspring. So they are now spreading, and the remaining hives are mutants that are more resistant.

Darwin strikes again.
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Your link to Blockchain does nothing to further the discussion. Perhaps you had something else in mind?
 
Mass Bee Die-offs 2013 - 2017
On this page you will see a list of the mass bee die offs that are happening all around the world. The bees are dying in such great numbers all over the globe that we had to start this new page to show you how perilous this situation is for the bees and for the many crops that they help to pollinate. We will update this list as and when we get new reports of mass bee deaths.

http://www.end-times-prophecy.org/bee-die-off.html
 
turnorburn said:
Mass Bee Die-offs 2013 - 2017
On this page you will see a list of the mass bee die offs that are happening all around the world. The bees are dying in such great numbers all over the globe that we had to start this new page to show you how perilous this situation is for the bees and for the many crops that they help to pollinate. We will update this list as and when we get new reports of mass bee deaths.

http://www.end-times-prophecy.org/bee-die-off.html
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Poor bees =(
 
The bees in UK had declined so much we had to import some from America a few years ago, now yours are declining.
Wonder if they are going to disappear?

Sometimes this happens with other species and then a few years later they start multiplying again.
 
It's like the Black Death in Europe in the Middle Ages. Killed a lot of people, but a particular mutation made a lot of others resistant to the disease, and it incidentally gave very good immunity to HIV:

LIVERPOOL, UK - 9 March 2005: Biologists at the University of Liverpool have discovered how the plagues of the Middle Ages have made around 10% of Europeans resistant to HIV.
Scientists have known for some time that these individuals carry a genetic mutation (known as CCR5-Ä32) that prevents the virus from entering the cells of the immune system but have been unable to account for the high levels of the gene in Scandinavia and relatively low levels in areas bordering the Mediterranean.

They have also been puzzled by the fact that HIV emerged only recently and could not have played a role in raising the frequency of the mutation to the high levels found in some Europeans today.

Professor Christopher Duncan and Dr Susan Scott from the University's School of Biological Sciences, whose research is published in the March edition of Journal of Medical Genetics, attribute the frequency of the CCR5-Ä32 mutation to its protection from another deadly viral disease, acting over a sustained period in bygone historic times.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-03/uol-bdw031005.php

This is why the CCR5-A32 gene is most common in people from areas that were hit hardest by the plague. Likewise, the bees with mutations that made them resistant to the new parasites (and possibly chemical agents) survived, and are now spreading in the population. That's how evolution works.
 
Tessa said:
The bees in UK had declined so much we had to import some from America a few years ago, now yours are declining.
Wonder if they are going to disappear?

Sometimes this happens with other species and then a few years later they start multiplying again.
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The problem began in the US, or so I read. So that would mean we exported them to you after it was already a major problem here. This seems unwise, if only for fear of spreading what was then an unknown problem.

I mention this because you have me curious about the time line, and I don't know how to go about checking it
 
Razeontherock said:
The problem began in the US, or so I read. So that would mean we exported them to you after it was already a major problem here. This seems unwise, if only for fear of spreading what was then an unknown problem.

I mention this because you have me curious about the time line, and I don't know how to go about checking it
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Neither do I Ray. I was thinking it was a recent problem in America because I was going on the dates on OP.

I will see if I can find anything and let you know
 
Tessa said:
I will try and find out exactly when your 'killer bee's arrived. That's what they called them :lol
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Africanised bees,are deadly and all hives here have 40 percent of them ,the Queen is the only way to tame them.if she is normal the hive won't be.
 
Razeontherock said:
Are these really new parasites? A new species popped up in the last decade?
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It's a recently-introduced parasite in most of the world. So initially, bees had little protection.

The Varroa bee mite (Varroa jacobsoni) was first discovered by A.C. Oudemans in 1904, as a parasite of the Asian honey bee, Apis cerana. In the late 1940s, Through movement of the western honey bee, Apis mellifera, colonies into and out of Asia, Varroa mite became established on honey bees first in Africa and then in Europe. Quickly, it spread around the world. It was first detected in the U.S. in 1987; Mexico and Canada quickly closed their borders to U.S. bees. Varroa has now been in the U.S. for over two decades and a robust history exists published in two parts: 1 and 2.
https://beekeep.info/a-treatise-on-...ging-diseases-and-pests/varroa-short-history/

Bees in the United States and Europe are starting to evolve through natural selection to survive a mite that has been decimating their populations.

Professor Stephen Martin, chair of animal ecology at Salford University in the United Kingdom, said in some instances bees were living with varroa mites and an associated virus, without any other treatment.

"We are trying to understand what is happening," he said.

Although the process of evolution is slow, it has given the industry hope and sparked an interest in better beekeeping methods, with people entering the industry to try and save the bees.

"Without the beekeepers in some areas, the honey bees would have disappeared completely," Dr Martin said.

"One of the benefits for Australia is if we can understand what is going on, we can tell you [Australian beekeepers] what to look for, what sort of set-ups work, what treatments are needed.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2017-06-28/bees-starting-to-evolve-survive-varroa-mite/8660318
 
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