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Smologies #4: BEES with Amanda Shaw
Ologies with Alie Ward
The Honey Bee Population Is Doing OK.
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The wild honey bee population is doing ok. It's the managed hives, it's the ones that are used in agricultural practices that we're seeing the big issues with the colony collapse. So what we're seeing is bees being put into nest boxes that aren't ideal. If you look at the industrial bee keeping complex, bees are being forced to polinate and work outside of their normal cycle. Ohd and so thei're being pushed to these limits. And it's weakening their immune systems. Nd, when there's monoculture and pessicide use involved it, it causes them to collapse.
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