[P2P-F] Feral Honey & Bee

Sun Oct 23 12:57:15 CEST 2011

Dear Kevin,

Tragically, feral swarms are just as prone (at a species level) to CCD as
domesticated swarms, although they have the benefit of flying to cleaner
feeding grounds than their trucked-in cousins that move from farm to farm to
orchard to cropland that have been doused in neonicitinoid-based pesticides,
consist of GM crops, monocultures, and the occassionally poorly managed hive
drugged up on miticides, antibiotics and sugar syrup.

In short, if we want bees (including solitary bees, bumblebees, mason bees,
etc.) to survive and continue providing us with pollination services, honey,
wax, etc., then our entire way of farming and producing food has to change
(including the greedy money-obsessed system that sits behind it). There is
simply no other viable option...unless you (as in, everyone) think you could
enjoy pollinating millions of hectares of crops by hand; it's already
happening in China and I don't think they're enjoying it much.

All the best,
Bryan
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Bryan Hugill
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RAITONG ORGANICS FARM
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LET'S GO ORGANIC FOR A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT AND GOOD HEALTH!

On 18 October 2011 12:35, Kevin Carson <free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com
> wrote:

> > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Bryan Hugill <bryan.hugill at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
>
> >> http://feralhoney.com/
>
> 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
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>
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