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Call Off the Bee-Pocalypse: US Honeybee Colonies Hit a 20 Year High

• viraptor 11y ago
  > order them a new queen online (retail price: $25 or so), and voila: two healthy hives. Isn't that actually quite tricky and not as easy as "voila: two healthy hives"? I read from time to time about people trying to recover hives after the queen dying / being rejected and not always having great results. What's the usual success ratio doing something like this? Not sure I like the summary: "Not only was there not a failure of bee-related markets, but they adapted quickly and effectively to the changes induced by the appearance of Colony Collapse Disorder." - we know lots of bees are dying, so we just make sure to get more of them. That's exactly the approach of poor societies. Being able to not have lots of kids "in case" is a good indicator of healthy, rich population. So something is wrong - we can just throw money at it, but that's a workaround.