Revisiting the Wild Honeybee with Torben Schiffer
The Poor Prole’s Almanac
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The Impacts of Beekeeping on the Ecology
In Germany, we have a million bee colonies being kept in boxes. That means these million boxes are now using the amount of nectar of about 1 million tons every summer,. So it could be like only 150,000 to 300,000 kilos of nectar when they were living in natural conditions. And then, of course, you would have to wipe out the the exaggerated density of bees because this is highly unnatural.
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