[P2P-F] Feral Honey & Bee

Sun Oct 23 16:59:05 CEST 2011

any documentation on  your chinese reference Bryan ?

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Bryan Hugill <bryan.hugill at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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>
>
>
> 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
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>>
>
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