<font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Dear Kevin,<br><br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>All the best,<br>Bryan<br clear="all"></font></font><font face="verdana, sans-serif">_________________<br>Bryan Hugill<br>Co-founder and Environmental Manager<br>RAITONG ORGANICS FARM<br>Tel: +66 (0)85 915 0961<br>E-mail:�<a href="mailto:info@raitongorganics.com" target="_blank">info@raitongorganics.com</a></font><div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 October 2011 12:35, Kevin Carson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:free.market.anticapitalist@gmail.com">free.market.anticapitalist@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Bryan Hugill <<a href="mailto:bryan.hugill@gmail.com">bryan.hugill@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
<br>
>> <a href="http://feralhoney.com/" target="_blank">http://feralhoney.com/</a><span onmouseout="cancel = false; window.setTimeout(WRCHideContent, 1000); clearTimeout(showTimer);" onmouseover=" var self = this; showTimer = window.setTimeout(function(){WRCShowContent({'rating':{'value':-1,'weight':-1},'flags':{},'single':false,'ttl':7200,'expireTime':'20111023194623'}, self.className)},600);" class="wrc0" style="padding-right: 16px; width: 16px; height: 16px;"></span><br>
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</div>It's a great reason for hope that wild honeybees are more resistant<br>
against colony collapse disorders. �Are these simply European<br>
honeybees that went feral?<br>
<br>
Africanized bees are also more resilient, I think.<br>
<br>
Maybe CCD won't be the total catastrophe it seems like, then.<br>
<br>
I saw a bee for the fiirst time this year on my place today, buzzing<br>
around my okra blossoms. �I notice bumblebees are all over anything<br>
with purple flowers at the botanical gardens. �It's funny to watch one<br>
of those little bastards trying to take off with pollen packed onto<br>
every spare patch of all six legs -- it's like a helicopter with too<br>
many people on it.<br>
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--<br>
Kevin Carson<br>
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