bad year for bee stress. mite problem may be related.
That image is pretty chilling of...they open the boxes and the bees just don't come back.
I had no idea how industrialized their use was in agriculture.
a bee truck overturned spilling bees every where during rush hour on the ny state thruway a few years back. they said that the truck was returning from a new england cranberry bog and heading to the next job (which could have been anything. i think the bees were based in florida where they winter. they had to euthanize a bunch of them for not cooperating and getting back into their boxes and stinging people.
Yeah, that trucking them from ecosystem to ecosystem to use as migrant pollinators--they're surprised that's killing the bees?
For a smart country we're not very smart.
Saw a bee-semi on the PA Turnpike once. Flatbedded stacked hives as high as regular shipping containers, with netting over them all. There were bees flying around like crazy inside the net and it was losing what seemed like a good number of them in the wind.
Jesus. I've never seen anything like this.
You drop your attention for five minutes and it's like...factory farming with bees instead of debeaked chickens.
What a country.
Or as James Traficante would say, "Beam me up."
In theory, the hives are closed and sealed for transport at night when all the bees are holed up.
My grandfather rented bees to pollinate a small corn field. But it was a small scale operation, just a few hives that were carried around in an old pickup truck.
As with many things agricultural, things don't necessarily change for the better.
Seems like a perfect case for "eating local" or whatever it's called. Truck em around (humanely if possible) but only within a bioregion.
I guess the assumption is that because humans can move anywhere and adapt then other species (especially other hive species) ought to be able to as well.
When you assume you make an....
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- bill 2-27-2007 4:24 pm
That image is pretty chilling of...they open the boxes and the bees just don't come back.
I had no idea how industrialized their use was in agriculture.
- tom moody 2-27-2007 7:22 pm [add a comment]
a bee truck overturned spilling bees every where during rush hour on the ny state thruway a few years back. they said that the truck was returning from a new england cranberry bog and heading to the next job (which could have been anything. i think the bees were based in florida where they winter. they had to euthanize a bunch of them for not cooperating and getting back into their boxes and stinging people.
- bill 2-27-2007 7:44 pm [add a comment]
Yeah, that trucking them from ecosystem to ecosystem to use as migrant pollinators--they're surprised that's killing the bees?
For a smart country we're not very smart.
- tom moody 2-27-2007 7:54 pm [add a comment]
Saw a bee-semi on the PA Turnpike once. Flatbedded stacked hives as high as regular shipping containers, with netting over them all. There were bees flying around like crazy inside the net and it was losing what seemed like a good number of them in the wind.
- jaschw (guest) 2-27-2007 8:52 pm [add a comment]
Jesus. I've never seen anything like this.
You drop your attention for five minutes and it's like...factory farming with bees instead of debeaked chickens.
What a country.
- tom moody 2-27-2007 8:58 pm [add a comment]
Or as James Traficante would say, "Beam me up."
- tom moody 2-27-2007 9:01 pm [add a comment]
In theory, the hives are closed and sealed for transport at night when all the bees are holed up.
My grandfather rented bees to pollinate a small corn field. But it was a small scale operation, just a few hives that were carried around in an old pickup truck.
As with many things agricultural, things don't necessarily change for the better.
- mark 2-27-2007 9:05 pm [add a comment]
Seems like a perfect case for "eating local" or whatever it's called. Truck em around (humanely if possible) but only within a bioregion.
I guess the assumption is that because humans can move anywhere and adapt then other species (especially other hive species) ought to be able to as well.
When you assume you make an....
- tom moody 2-27-2007 9:14 pm [add a comment]