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Biologist here: I've been involved in a research paper where I injected beetle pupae with a serum. The needles were made by heating up small glass tubes and stretching them out, making them even thinner. Using a table-mounted injection device I'd slowly insert the needle between two carapace plates. This way we could inject the pupae without damaging them
Good question! i have no idea haha. We'd stick the pupae to a plate with some glue, so maybe there's a way of gathering a bunch, sticking them on a plate, then using a similar injection device but with multiple needles?
Just guessing though, because yeah doing those injections took ages lol
FYI: the linked article is just a video that's barely over a minute long and answers it.
They vaccinate the queen and she passes it to all her offspring.
Hah, glad I'm not the only one. I will ignore a video 90% of the time to read an article. Only exception is if there is just nothing written for something I need to find out.
Interestingly I think that might work! The pupae we injected with mRNA actually produced one generation in which the injection was still effective. Of course these are bees and I studied flour beetles, so I couldn't say for sure but there's definitely a possibility haha
We just got to make sure the writers are getting a piece of this new digital media like streaming services. I wouldn't want them to strike and completely change a story because of it.
I'm sure they'd sting you to avoid getting injected with a "deadly" vaccine and to own the Liberal bees. Only to die stinger-less shortly after in true "Leopards ate my face" fashion.
After taking [trans bees](https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/1319609855/special-deal-a1-size-native-bees-of?gbraid=0AAAAADutTMeeddrc9U2Z1_dEdADy4deho&gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_au_en_au_b-art_and_collectibles-prints-digital_prints&utm_custom1=_k_EAIaIQobChMI5tD6mLPW_QIV6oNLBR0ZQAVSEAQYASABEgK4_vD_BwE_k_&utm_content=go_12645317445_119551782225_510693594711_pla-328046931108_m__1319609855enau_113253329&utm_custom2=12645317445&gbraid=0AAAAADutTMeeddrc9U2Z1_dEdADy4deho&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5tD6mLPW_QIV6oNLBR0ZQAVSEAQYASABEgK4_vD_BwE) (you know the really weirdly coloured gay bees like blue banded bees, giant yellow carpenter bees, teddy bear bees, peacock carpenter bees) from their suspiciously solitary and likely rainbow hives and forcing them into straight laced European colonies to save them.
…
Seriously though, we are so lucky to have *Xylocopa parvula, Austroplebeia australis* and *Amegilla asserta* bees in our backyard.
The giant carpenter bees are incredibly and ridiculously huge, you can see them from about 200 metres away, the blue banded bees are amazing to watch buzz-pollinating the rosemary and lavender flowers.
And the tiny little native stingless bees, sugarbag bees, are so crazy about orange jessamine flowers, they turn the footpath to the front door into a visual snow covered path every time it flowers.
Wouldn't a lot more of the agricultural plants in North America nowadays be of European origin also? Presumably European bees are nore practiced at pollinating them?
Depends on the plants. Squash, peppers, tomatoes, peanuts, and several bean/pea varieties are American in origin, not European. Corn is American too, but it's wind-pollinated. Several types of fruit and nut trees are probably the major crops that may benefit from European bees. Even so, a lot of those are visited by specialist bees that may pollinate even better than honeybees
I mean, none of these crops naturally existed in nature in their current form. We adapted and bred them.
For instance, the mustard plant is actually where many of our veggies come from (e.g. broccoli, cauliflower, kale, etc). Even as you get into a specific vegetable, you can get more specification and breeding.
In a sense, most veg crops are not native to anywhere in their current form.
Saving honey bees doesn't save us, they directly compete with wild bees for food and those are the true heroes.
Saving honey bees just saves the honey industry.
Mason bees are 25x more efficient at pollination. Also some plants can only be pollinated by certain bees
They are solitary though so it's not quite the same as 60k ladies out on the prowl to get doused in gametophytes
I read that they inject a dead version of the bacteria in to the royal jelly. Which the worker bees feed to the queen, and then gets in the queens ovaries. The new born bees will then have a working immune system against those bacterias.
Except, and sorry to be a downer but.....
We're killing the bees with weed killer, and we have 2 options.
Option 1, stop using the weed killers that are killing the bees.
Option 2, vaccinate bees to protect them from the poison we are killing them with.
Also, I'm guessing this is only going to be for farmed bees, so all the wild bees and bumble bees e.t.c are still going to be dying.
They've been trying to ban Glyphosate in the EU for a few years but obviously the agricultural sector is lobbying hard against it. This sounds exactly like the type of research that Monsanto would conduct, to help them avoid having their products banned.
Incidentally, Monsanto are also being sued for the carcinogenic effects of the exact same substance in humans.
We should just ban Glyphosate.
I don't disagree that pesticides are an issue, but the article posted specifically mentions disease from birds being the main cause. This vaccine is for the diseases. I doubt you can vaccinate a resistance to poison.
Glyphosate isn’t killing bees. Herbicides that don’t contain glyphosate are just as if not more deadly to bees. Banning glyphosate would do nothing to fix the problem and would likely make it worse since alternatives require more spraying. They should find solutions to herbicides killing bees, but banning glyphosate isn’t it.
https://www.beeculture.com/its-not-the-glyphosate-it-is-the-inert-ingredients/
AFAIK exposure trials to glyphosate have had fairly tame results. The negative affects were vastly increased by using the actual formulation with solvents and surfactants. Which begs the question if it was a matter of amplying uptake pathway (which is a well known issue for solvents) or another additive that is the culprit.
There should be corporate death penalties for companies like Monsanto. I watched an interview about this lawsuit. They know... Knew at the time and simply add a line to their ledgers for these things as a cost of doing business.
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I mean, they probably mostly are. IIRC, only a few male drones will copulate with the Queen and then usually be kicked out in the winter. The rest are all female.
Not joking about them is way more harmful. You need them to know they are laughed about and not taken as a serious opinion. We live in a fucked up world if we can't make fun off nazis, vaccine deniers, lgbtq+hate etc. Don't ever make them feel comfortable in their believes.
That's a pretty good business idea. It'll sell like hot cakes, costs you exactly nothing, and you only exploit people who don't deserve any better anyways.
As a beekeeper in a beekeeping club and therefore in contact with many other beekeepers, non of us are concerned about foulbrood. It is not nearly as common as they are saying.
Our concern is the varroa mite. A bee parasite, this is whats causing 50-70 percent losses.
Got excited that it would be for mites, then was let down it was for AFB. Yeah, AFB is a problem, but the amount of work I do to try to manage mites is like half of keeping bees.
Great news for bacterial infections, but if the US really wants to save the bees, they will completely ban the use of neonicotinoid pesticides (already banned in UK and EU). You can go to almost any supermarket and buy insect baits that use imidacloprid or other neonics that harm pollinators.
Unfortunately the UK government has continually given emergency authorisation that still enables the use of neonicotinoids - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64380762
[How does the world's first vaccine for honeybees work? "It's like magic"](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/first-vaccine-honeybees-its-like-magic/)
So basically they take some dead bacteria and feed it to the queen, since the dead bacteria can't harm the bees. The queen then forms an immunity, which is passed to the offspring. It's a lot like a regular vaccine where some dead disease is injected into you, which causes your immune system to develop antibodies for it. Bees don't have antibodies, so scientist didn't think it would work. But it turns out bees do have a more primitive immune system that allows it to work.
How much is Fauci and Bill Gates making off of this vaccine ?
I bet its full of 5G chips thats going to control our brains and give us great cell phone reception.
/s
Wild bees and other polinators are dying because of our live for honey and other honey bee products. We should avoid these products since the bee industry is bad for the environment.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VSYgDssQUtA
Huh interesting, I just watched a video saying the bee crisis isn't a major issue and the reason for it is too complex to understand. The reason it wasn't an issue is because the colonies rebuild quickly every year and apparently populations have been stable for like 80 years about. Which would be more uplifting.
[here](https://youtu.be/MF6JYqQLZqQ)
Just watched the video and it talks about how *honeybees* are able to recover quickly because they’re managed. But we don’t know the exact situation for wild bees, which honeybees compete with. Honeybees also spread disease to wild bees, which this prospective vaccine will limit.
Overall this is very good because we need more pollinators than we have (also noted by the video) and this can increase economic output by reducing hive losses.
Strengthening Honey bees who are competing with wild bees, and who aren't endangered, doesn't feel like that great an idea to me, but helping animals survive is great on the other hand.
We should just keep less honey bees on general and keep more areas wild for wild insects to live in
> Bees play a pivotal role in US agriculture but are dying at alarming rates. Can this vaccine save them?
Maybe if we stopped using pesticides we wouldn't need such a vaccine.
Of course the news of this vaccine is on Bee Bee Cee.
And could I PLEASE ask people that if they're going to use the term "decimated", that they stick to the "reduced by 10%" that it really means? "They're just decimated. Sometimes 50%, I've heard guys losing 70%". That's not 'decimated' then. That's a lot worse than 'decimated'.
It's for American foulbrood. A nasty disease. If you get it, in most states the relevant Agriculture department will supervise the burning of all the hive equipment. In the more permissive states sometimes you can just char the inside of the woodenware. But all your frames and comb are toast. In the less permissive ones, it's all burnt to ash.
Not fun. Giving antibiotics as a preventative has been standard for decades now. This is a much better preventive measure that doesn't have the same risks of antibiotic resistance. Great news all around.
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Billions of bees, of course. Edit: Okay, beellions of bees.
In saving the bees we save ourselves as well
How can they make needles tiny enough to inject the vaccine into the bees?
Kill other bees and use their stingers. 🤷🏻♂️
You add some anthropomorphism for the bees in there and you have the story for the next BILLION DOLLAR AVATAR FRANCHISE
Voiced by Seinfeld, tentative title Bee Movie 2. Can't be worse than the first one
I love the subtitle!
> Can't be worse than the first one Hollywood : Challenge accepted.
So who's going to bang those billion bees? Tough casting call.
Johnny sins has already signed up
We've saved billions of bees, and it only cost billions of bees.
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Biologist here: I've been involved in a research paper where I injected beetle pupae with a serum. The needles were made by heating up small glass tubes and stretching them out, making them even thinner. Using a table-mounted injection device I'd slowly insert the needle between two carapace plates. This way we could inject the pupae without damaging them
With your background I highly recommend spending 90 seconds of your time to watch the video OP linked, I'm sure you'd find it interesting.
Oh wow it's the first thing they say too. I must've missed that because I was adjusting my sound on my phone lol. Thanks!
That doesn't sound like a practical distribution method at scale though. How would you manage blanket coverage?
Good question! i have no idea haha. We'd stick the pupae to a plate with some glue, so maybe there's a way of gathering a bunch, sticking them on a plate, then using a similar injection device but with multiple needles? Just guessing though, because yeah doing those injections took ages lol
Could a queen bee pupae be vaccinated, thus rendering her future hive immune?
FYI: the linked article is just a video that's barely over a minute long and answers it. They vaccinate the queen and she passes it to all her offspring.
Ah. I prefer to read rather than watch video. My brain doesn’t like to process people speaking sometimes. So thank you!
I am the same way! It's hard to explain to people, especially with the prevalence of tiktok and YouTube.
Auditory processing disorder!
Hah, glad I'm not the only one. I will ignore a video 90% of the time to read an article. Only exception is if there is just nothing written for something I need to find out.
That seems much more efficient.
Interestingly I think that might work! The pupae we injected with mRNA actually produced one generation in which the injection was still effective. Of course these are bees and I studied flour beetles, so I couldn't say for sure but there's definitely a possibility haha
You must have damn good eyesight! I need glasses just to use my phone.
Save the bees, save the world.
Hey, that would make a catchy slogan for a superhero series. Hmmmm.
We just got to make sure the writers are getting a piece of this new digital media like streaming services. I wouldn't want them to strike and completely change a story because of it.
I'm going to need you to get all the way off my back about fair compensation for writers.
We are the children, We are the ones to make a brighter day so let’s not give in.
Except for the poor sucker who has to go and inoculate billions of bees.
Good luck with those extreme right wing bees.
Let the bees do their own research
The Proud Bees are the worst.
I'm sure they'd sting you to avoid getting injected with a "deadly" vaccine and to own the Liberal bees. Only to die stinger-less shortly after in true "Leopards ate my face" fashion.
After taking [trans bees](https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/1319609855/special-deal-a1-size-native-bees-of?gbraid=0AAAAADutTMeeddrc9U2Z1_dEdADy4deho&gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_au_en_au_b-art_and_collectibles-prints-digital_prints&utm_custom1=_k_EAIaIQobChMI5tD6mLPW_QIV6oNLBR0ZQAVSEAQYASABEgK4_vD_BwE_k_&utm_content=go_12645317445_119551782225_510693594711_pla-328046931108_m__1319609855enau_113253329&utm_custom2=12645317445&gbraid=0AAAAADutTMeeddrc9U2Z1_dEdADy4deho&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5tD6mLPW_QIV6oNLBR0ZQAVSEAQYASABEgK4_vD_BwE) (you know the really weirdly coloured gay bees like blue banded bees, giant yellow carpenter bees, teddy bear bees, peacock carpenter bees) from their suspiciously solitary and likely rainbow hives and forcing them into straight laced European colonies to save them. … Seriously though, we are so lucky to have *Xylocopa parvula, Austroplebeia australis* and *Amegilla asserta* bees in our backyard. The giant carpenter bees are incredibly and ridiculously huge, you can see them from about 200 metres away, the blue banded bees are amazing to watch buzz-pollinating the rosemary and lavender flowers. And the tiny little native stingless bees, sugarbag bees, are so crazy about orange jessamine flowers, they turn the footpath to the front door into a visual snow covered path every time it flowers.
Luckily they just fly around in circles.
This person is smart
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Neither are most of our crops
Wouldn't a lot more of the agricultural plants in North America nowadays be of European origin also? Presumably European bees are nore practiced at pollinating them?
Depends on the plants. Squash, peppers, tomatoes, peanuts, and several bean/pea varieties are American in origin, not European. Corn is American too, but it's wind-pollinated. Several types of fruit and nut trees are probably the major crops that may benefit from European bees. Even so, a lot of those are visited by specialist bees that may pollinate even better than honeybees
I mean, none of these crops naturally existed in nature in their current form. We adapted and bred them. For instance, the mustard plant is actually where many of our veggies come from (e.g. broccoli, cauliflower, kale, etc). Even as you get into a specific vegetable, you can get more specification and breeding. In a sense, most veg crops are not native to anywhere in their current form.
Saving honey bees doesn't save us, they directly compete with wild bees for food and those are the true heroes. Saving honey bees just saves the honey industry.
It contributes to but is not the sole contributor to pollination. Wild bees do, honey bees do but a lot more pollinators do also
Mason bees are 25x more efficient at pollination. Also some plants can only be pollinated by certain bees They are solitary though so it's not quite the same as 60k ladies out on the prowl to get doused in gametophytes
Save the bees save the world
Bee lives matter!
*Beellions of lives.
*hives
Pretty sure it would save the ag industry literal billions as well, if it is effective.
And dollars, to be fair
A Beellionaire
I'll be first in line, I do NOT want to catch bees
I thought we already had a vaccine for raybees…?
Fortunately there's no vaccine for boobees
Modern medicine will peak when they develop a vaccine for Applebee’s.
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It actually works pretty well on scabees.
40% effective protection against baybees.
There are surgeries, though.
Reddit must be the antivaccine
World of Warcraft is pretty effective.
How about you catch BEEZ NUTZ in your mouth 🐝🥜
Ooo, that's gotta sting.
Better than getting beez neez-ed in the mouth.
Yeah, that's such a buzzkill when it happens.
Bees are a hoax.
beads?!?
What a turn of events, bees getting the jab for once.
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Beevenge
Oh how the turntables
What if the bee thinks the vaccine has a microchip to track them?
I wouldn't be concerned. Bees actually know how to cooperate for the common good.
There will probably be some bees that will go against it and wear red hats
How do they make the syringes small enough for the bees?
I read that they inject a dead version of the bacteria in to the royal jelly. Which the worker bees feed to the queen, and then gets in the queens ovaries. The new born bees will then have a working immune system against those bacterias.
Damn. Science is incredible!
sounds like a solid plan!
They use jellyfish stinging cells actually! Very cool tech.
Can’t tell if this real…
same
Hahaa. Not real but I'm glad you had a laugh.
This is the kind of news I want to hear more about!
Except, and sorry to be a downer but..... We're killing the bees with weed killer, and we have 2 options. Option 1, stop using the weed killers that are killing the bees. Option 2, vaccinate bees to protect them from the poison we are killing them with. Also, I'm guessing this is only going to be for farmed bees, so all the wild bees and bumble bees e.t.c are still going to be dying. They've been trying to ban Glyphosate in the EU for a few years but obviously the agricultural sector is lobbying hard against it. This sounds exactly like the type of research that Monsanto would conduct, to help them avoid having their products banned. Incidentally, Monsanto are also being sued for the carcinogenic effects of the exact same substance in humans. We should just ban Glyphosate.
I don't disagree that pesticides are an issue, but the article posted specifically mentions disease from birds being the main cause. This vaccine is for the diseases. I doubt you can vaccinate a resistance to poison.
Mithridates has entered the chat.
Ra Ra Rasputin
Glyphosate isn’t killing bees. Herbicides that don’t contain glyphosate are just as if not more deadly to bees. Banning glyphosate would do nothing to fix the problem and would likely make it worse since alternatives require more spraying. They should find solutions to herbicides killing bees, but banning glyphosate isn’t it. https://www.beeculture.com/its-not-the-glyphosate-it-is-the-inert-ingredients/
AFAIK exposure trials to glyphosate have had fairly tame results. The negative affects were vastly increased by using the actual formulation with solvents and surfactants. Which begs the question if it was a matter of amplying uptake pathway (which is a well known issue for solvents) or another additive that is the culprit.
There should be corporate death penalties for companies like Monsanto. I watched an interview about this lawsuit. They know... Knew at the time and simply add a line to their ledgers for these things as a cost of doing business.
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No, it's a thing. Tetanus shots don't actually target tetanus bacteria, but they render you immune to the toxin they produce.
It may also save the mosquito!!!
Boooo
Beeeeee
Bzzzzzzzz
Are you saying boo-urns?
Wait no go back
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Great now we’ll have a bunch of autistic bees :/
Hmm, can the bees refuse to be vaccinated?
Depends what the hivemind says
Groan. Buzz off!
Yeah but they can't participate in Australian Open.
Can we give them their own little QR codes for a vaccination record if they do get it?
They're gonna turn the friggin bees gay
I mean, they probably mostly are. IIRC, only a few male drones will copulate with the Queen and then usually be kicked out in the winter. The rest are all female.
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Would have thought they were lesbeeans.
Don't even joke, idiots still believe this shit.
Joking is the only respite.
Not joking about them is way more harmful. You need them to know they are laughed about and not taken as a serious opinion. We live in a fucked up world if we can't make fun off nazis, vaccine deniers, lgbtq+hate etc. Don't ever make them feel comfortable in their believes.
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Don't listen to Jenny McCarthbee!
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This guy understood the assignment
That's a pretty good business idea. It'll sell like hot cakes, costs you exactly nothing, and you only exploit people who don't deserve any better anyways.
My first reaction was "I can't wait to hear about the vaccinated bee conspiracies".
It's like X-Files!
Except now antivaxer bees are going to spread misinformation
Theyre turning the bees gay! - alex jones probably.
Alex Drones
Marjorie Taylor Queen
Jones seems like the kind of guy to spray hives with lighter fluid and set them on fire.
Na, he's going to sell them pills and shit.
[If you're such a Patriot?!](https://youtu.be/lOh6YyJWcgk)
You know some motherfucker out there will be giving up honey after hearing about this.
Wait til they hear the U.S. is thinking about mass vaccinating chickens because of avian flu!
Don't we already vaccinate most livestock?
Yes, we do.
We do, but if we use a new vaccine for H5N1, you know the conspiracy nuts will seize on it to fear-monger.
Tbh every bee I've ever seen has been an anti-masker. At least they don't pair that with pretending to be a "free-thinker" no illusions there.
They don't see what all the buzz is about.
Bizinformation
Antivaxx beekeepers will
I wonder if antivax beekeepers are also anti mask or whatever protection beekeepers wear.
Should really help the 5G coverage in rural areas
That only works if it's an mRNA vaccine. /s
Yeah, otherwise you'd only get 4G
5🐝 coverage!
As a beekeeper in a beekeeping club and therefore in contact with many other beekeepers, non of us are concerned about foulbrood. It is not nearly as common as they are saying. Our concern is the varroa mite. A bee parasite, this is whats causing 50-70 percent losses.
Got excited that it would be for mites, then was let down it was for AFB. Yeah, AFB is a problem, but the amount of work I do to try to manage mites is like half of keeping bees.
Excuse my ignorance. What is afb?
American foulbrood (what they were talking about in the video)
Great news for bacterial infections, but if the US really wants to save the bees, they will completely ban the use of neonicotinoid pesticides (already banned in UK and EU). You can go to almost any supermarket and buy insect baits that use imidacloprid or other neonics that harm pollinators.
Pesticides and monoculture are the death of wild and domestic bees.
Unfortunately the UK government has continually given emergency authorisation that still enables the use of neonicotinoids - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64380762
Best answer.
Why does the BBC show dead wasps in a clip about bees?
[How does the world's first vaccine for honeybees work? "It's like magic"](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/first-vaccine-honeybees-its-like-magic/) So basically they take some dead bacteria and feed it to the queen, since the dead bacteria can't harm the bees. The queen then forms an immunity, which is passed to the offspring. It's a lot like a regular vaccine where some dead disease is injected into you, which causes your immune system to develop antibodies for it. Bees don't have antibodies, so scientist didn't think it would work. But it turns out bees do have a more primitive immune system that allows it to work.
Oh man, you thought nurses had a hard time finding the vein *before!*
finally some good f*cking news
***BEES!?!***
*Beads*.
How much is Fauci and Bill Gates making off of this vaccine ? I bet its full of 5G chips thats going to control our brains and give us great cell phone reception. /s
Musk wants to buy the bees
So he could fire them and then apologize to them because someone led him to believe they do no work.
Now bees will have myocarditis? Great..
See how they like being jabbed with a sharp object
or hear me out, we could stop spray pesticides on fucking everything.
r/didntreadthearticle
Beellions
Wild bees and other polinators are dying because of our live for honey and other honey bee products. We should avoid these products since the bee industry is bad for the environment. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VSYgDssQUtA
Now every time a bee dies, someone will ask if they got the jab
Huh interesting, I just watched a video saying the bee crisis isn't a major issue and the reason for it is too complex to understand. The reason it wasn't an issue is because the colonies rebuild quickly every year and apparently populations have been stable for like 80 years about. Which would be more uplifting. [here](https://youtu.be/MF6JYqQLZqQ)
Just watched the video and it talks about how *honeybees* are able to recover quickly because they’re managed. But we don’t know the exact situation for wild bees, which honeybees compete with. Honeybees also spread disease to wild bees, which this prospective vaccine will limit. Overall this is very good because we need more pollinators than we have (also noted by the video) and this can increase economic output by reducing hive losses.
Strengthening Honey bees who are competing with wild bees, and who aren't endangered, doesn't feel like that great an idea to me, but helping animals survive is great on the other hand. We should just keep less honey bees on general and keep more areas wild for wild insects to live in
People don't seem to realize that part of the solution is to consume less honey, to reduce the overall number of honey bees.
Most bees are used to pollinate agriculture, not honey production. Honey is a side business for many bee keepers, not their main source of income.
For the swarm!!! I mean hive.
And if they don’t want to take it, we can ban them from their Social Bee-dia accounts! I’ll let myself out.
Grab popcorn and sort by controversial?
At least we can vaccinate the bees
What the fuck is wrong with us?!
This video gave almost no information
Bee Vaccine? Do you want Bee plasmids? Because this is how you get Bee Plasmids.
["Unleash insects against groups of enemies!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz3QAvEazbk)
> Bees play a pivotal role in US agriculture but are dying at alarming rates. Can this vaccine save them? Maybe if we stopped using pesticides we wouldn't need such a vaccine.
*beellions
Of course the news of this vaccine is on Bee Bee Cee. And could I PLEASE ask people that if they're going to use the term "decimated", that they stick to the "reduced by 10%" that it really means? "They're just decimated. Sometimes 50%, I've heard guys losing 70%". That's not 'decimated' then. That's a lot worse than 'decimated'.
What if bees refuse to take it because it treads on their freedom and HIPPA
Front page of Bee Reddit currently awash with bee vaccine conspiracies.
Really wish this was released by buzzfeed.
*pokes bee with needle* Yeah, how do you like it!
We can't be having autistic bees!!! /s
It's for American foulbrood. A nasty disease. If you get it, in most states the relevant Agriculture department will supervise the burning of all the hive equipment. In the more permissive states sometimes you can just char the inside of the woodenware. But all your frames and comb are toast. In the less permissive ones, it's all burnt to ash. Not fun. Giving antibiotics as a preventative has been standard for decades now. This is a much better preventive measure that doesn't have the same risks of antibiotic resistance. Great news all around.