• 1 Post
  • 235 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: October 25th, 2023

help-circle














  • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzHoney
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    20 days ago

    Bees weren’t made by humans. They can survive on their own. They work until they die out of exhaustion due to the hard work, they work because of need, not of joy. Whenever they split up when there is enough honey, they spread around. That’s how bees work. By limiting them to one colony by partially starving them, we endanger the species. It’s already going bad for bees, due to urbanization, perticides, climate change but also colony starvation for honey production.



  • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzHoney
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    19
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    20 days ago

    About honey: we do need bees. But taking away their honey which they work really hard for to sustain their colony during the winter and replacing it with sugar water is really bad for them and makes their colony weak. They can get viruses, bacteria and fungi much faster, which they can spread to other colonies or when splitting up when their queen dies.

    Next to that, bees we use for honey are a very aggressive territorial species. They claim their territory and all the other bee and whasp species are killed and pushed out. There are many bee and whasp species who do not live in colonies but are very important for the biodiversity. Replacing them with our bees, which will die and get sick faster because we take away their nuteician rich honey, is a bad idea.

    We do need our bees, but in reduces quantities to keep the balance. But we shouldn’t take their food.