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Oddly, I happened to have just read something which stated that roughly 2/3 of what bees pollinate in the U.S. are almond crops. A quick Google reveals that al
by unclebucknasty 9y ago
Oddly, I happened to have just read something which stated that roughly 2/3 of what bees pollinate in the U.S. are almond crops.
A quick Google reveals that almonds do indeed require a lot of bees, in addition to water.
- tptacek 9y agoThere is essentially no current risk that almond farmers will lose access to the livestock bees that pollinate their crops.
- unclebucknasty 9y agoWell, I wasn't claiming there was, but not quite sure what to infer from your comment. I mean, I know (from recent reading) that there's a fairly intensive operation to maintain hives exclusively for almond farming. Are you saying these are not affected by CCD, neonics, or whatever?
- tptacek 9y agoCCD manifests itself as greater overwintering losses to colonies. Bee farmers have lots of colonies. They can split colonies and buy new queens. It's not like Dutch Elm disease; it doesn't kill all the bees.
- unclebucknasty 9y agoI see. So are you saying that the "bee problem" is overblown and we can farm our way out of it?
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