[P2P-F] Feral Honey & Bee

[Bryan Hugill]

Try these depressing online articles and check out the file (from
http://www.actahort.org/books/561/561_32.htm) that I attached too:

   - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_pollination
   -
   http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/dec/16/crucial-role-cities-honey-bee
   - http://www.beewatchers.com/2010/02/why-not-just-bring-in-more-bees.html
   - http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/06/14/stung-by-bees.html
   -
   http://blog.lib.umn.edu/efans/ygnews/2011/02/hand-pollination-of-apples-tre.html
   - http://www.actahort.org/books/561/561_32.htm

Enjoy! :(

Cheers,
Bryan
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On 23 October 2011 21:59, Michel Bauwens <michel at p2pfoundation.net> wrote:

> 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
>> _________________
>> Bryan Hugill
>> Co-founder and Environmental Manager
>> RAITONG ORGANICS FARM
>> Tel: +66 (0)85 915 0961
>> E-mail: info at raitongorganics.com
>> Skype: bryan_hugill
>> www.raitongorganics.com
>> www.khaosrikram.com
>> www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=140808370801
>>
>> 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
>>> 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
>>>
>>
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