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Originally Posted by TheObserver
Thanks no caste, i also reread the first post again and realized you're not the beekeeper
making the comment in the last paragraph, doh! (why is there no "V8" smilie?)  |
Oh. I re-read it and it was confusing. I edited it. No, not a beekeeper. But Carmen was saying on another thread that the bees are really overworked in commercial farms. I can't find that thread now, but there's been a lot of wondering about them on the forum.
I've been following the mysterious disappearance of bees. They often aren't found dead nearby, when they don't return to the hives. V8! The mite thing, the new name CCD (colony collapse disorder), cell phone tower theories, chemtrail fallout, electro magnetic disturbance (since they also navigate with magnetic fields) it's all pretty serious. So this was really interesting to read, that organic beekeepers on the poster's mailing list didn't see CCD.
Here, just found this too:
The majority of food is found within 2.5km of the hive, but a bee will also visit familiar flowers up to 10km away.
http://www.setiai.com/archives/000064.html