A new survey says America's honeybee hives just staggered through the second highest death rate on record, with beekeepers losing nearly half of their managed colonies.
  • dudeami0@lemmy.dudeami.winEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This wouldn’t be a surprise to anyone seeing the conditions pollinator honey bees are kept in. Most are distrubuted in cardboard boxes to fields to be used for pollination. Once they pollinate the fields they aren’t really of concern to the farmers anymore. In my opinion, this is like saying half of cattle die every year, but populations remain stable. It’s kind of by design, and in some cases the goal.

    • madapiarist@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      That’s a temporary nuc box for live bee sales. Noone takes these to pollinate crops. Once they are done pollination, the grower might not care anymore, but the beekeeper certainly does. They either move on to another crop or return home to produce honey.

  • Deleted@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Fear not! We will soon have autonomous drone insects (ADI) that will take its place. Surely, it wouldn’t be hacked and be used for nerfarious purposes, right? Right? 🐝