Aartvaark
Aartvaark t1_iwdm143 wrote
Reply to comment by octopusgardener0 in The lifespans of honey bees living in laboratory environments has dropped about 50% over the last 50 years, hinting at possible causes for the worrisome trends across the beekeeping industry, according to new research by University of Maryland entomologists. by Wagamaga
Screwing with nature introduces chaos. No matter how carefully bees are 'kept', they're still 'kept', not free to live their natural bee lives.
They adapt to keeping instead of nature. Of course they're going to mutate in favor of their new lifestyle.
I don't understand why this wasn't predicted and avoided.
Aartvaark t1_iwd8lar wrote
Reply to comment by throwmyasswaway17 in New evidence establishes that footprints found at Matalascañas in southern Spain are 295,800 years old, indicating pre-Neanderthal hominin settlement in the Middle Pleistocene age by marketrent
Yeah, that's their story and they're sticking to it.
Aartvaark t1_iwdq5tb wrote
Reply to comment by octopusgardener0 in The lifespans of honey bees living in laboratory environments has dropped about 50% over the last 50 years, hinting at possible causes for the worrisome trends across the beekeeping industry, according to new research by University of Maryland entomologists. by Wagamaga
This is exactly my point. I get why you're defending and I applaud your practices, but as careful as you are, you don't realize how much you're changing their natural lives and lifestyle by providing what you think is beneficial and helpful.
Your end game is honey.
Their end game is survival.
I can live without honey. Maybe the bees should live without us.