Worldwide Beekeeping
Beekeeping => Bee News => Topic started by: Nugget Shooter on June 05, 2017, 07:04:27 pm
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http://beesinfo.info/?p=2036 (http://beesinfo.info/?p=2036)
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Good read! :yes:
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Thanks Bill :yes:
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You don't have that in the desert do you? You may be the only one. Lots of Ag down here.
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Is that a legitimate article/site?
I noticed at the top of the page it says "Just another Wordpress Site" followed by the banner "Sample Page"
And the link at the bottom had a rather enticing, yet perhaps hyperbolic name: "How the global banana industry is killing the worlds favorite fruit."
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"Most disturbing, bees that ate pollen contaminated with fungicides were three times as likely to be infected by the parasite. "
I recently heard some speakers from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln speak. I think contaminated pollen is where research is going to focus on in the future. Pollen is the food choice for brood and nurse bees. They also think viruses can be transmitted by foragers working the same bloom. A forager contaminated with a virus works a blossom gathering pollen which is then worked by another forager from another colony thus contaminating the subsequent visitors to that blossom. Very similar to human reaction. (If you are sick you should stay home from work.)
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You don't have that in the desert do you? You may be the only one. Lots of Ag down here.
We do in many areas with huge fields of vegetables grown year round using irrigation and huge sprinklers, but not within my bees areas of forage.