On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Bryan Hugill <[email protected]> wrote:
It's a great reason for hope that wild honeybees are more resistant against colony collapse disorders. Are these simply European honeybees that went feral? Africanized bees are also more resilient, I think. Maybe CCD won't be the total catastrophe it seems like, then. I saw a bee for the fiirst time this year on my place today, buzzing around my okra blossoms. I notice bumblebees are all over anything with purple flowers at the botanical gardens. It's funny to watch one of those little bastards trying to take off with pollen packed onto every spare patch of all six legs -- it's like a helicopter with too many people on it. -- Kevin Carson Research Associate, Center for a Stateless Society http://c4ss.org Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com Desktop Regulatory State: The Countervailing Power of Super-Empowered Individuals http://desktopregulatorystate.wordpress.com Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/12/studies-in-anarchist-theory-of.html