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Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing — Colonies surged 15-fold
(www.sciencedaily.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2026
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This is both great and terrible. Great because "yay bees", terrible because now they have a synthetic stand in for a natural process which will almost certainly be misused
Instead of just PLANTING SOME FUCKING FLOWERS
In a couple years we'll be saying honey "doesn't taste like it used to"
Where I live, honey is labeled with the types of flowers that the bees were feeding on. I doubt that "yeast honey" is going to replace the "chestnut honey" any time soon.
But what flowers do we let growth that will make money ?
Its simple economics. No matter how beneficial it is to the environment, people, or the economy, its bad for the economy to do anything without a direct profit motive
(god I hope the sarcasm was thick enough)
Well, domestic bees are invasive. I wonder if they are going to try to feed this to wild bees... Probably not. Still, I want domestic bees to flourish, because I like honey, so I'm not that mad.
I don’t like honey so the things I do will be 100% to support non-honey bees because they are far far far more valuable than invasive honey bees ever could be…e.
I love my native bees. Especially mason bees. I love that they can’t be commercialized. I hate that people don’t care about them because they can’t be commercialized and that’s the whole reason my yard is mostly wild.
Fuuuuuuuck honey and the damage it causes the natural ecosystem. Fuck importing plants and making them work through invasive agriculture. If something can’t grow because we can’t keep the bees here because they aren’t native here…. TOO FUCKING BAD! Import it, don’t ruin the ecosystem trying to make it work.
I'd bet my life savings you don't actually feel this strongly about honey bees. And secondly, honey bees don't need "invasive agriculture" to survive or produce honey. They produce honey just fine from natural wildflowers and wildflowers benefit all the same from pollination.
I feel that strongly about native bees and honey bees cause problems for them so.. yeah. I’m big on native wildlife. Fuck invasive species.
Honeybees are not native where I am, and somehow we have so many crops that supposedly rely on them or they would fail entirely, how is that not invasive agriculture? People truck bees across the country to support these crops.
I’m not saying they can’t produce honey from native flowers, they can but that’s entirely beside the point, and that’s also competing with native bees, of which there are hundreds of species.
They have discovered that even the Amazon rain forest is actually a result of agriculture. I suppose you enjoy eating... It makes no sense to rave against agriculture in general. At any rate I wish they would start domesticating Melipona beecheii for North American bee keeping. It is a native american bee, though it is more central and south america as it is tropical. It is also stingless, which is a plus. Native Americans in Mexico harvested them for honey.
Cuno doesn't care. Cuno just wants cheap artificial honey.