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Revisiting the Wild Honeybee with Torben Schiffer

The Poor Prole’s Almanac

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Is There a Relationship Between Honeybees and Domesticated Bees?

There's an inverse relationship between what we can benefit from them through that domestication process and their ability to survive without us, right? Yeah. And if they need, if they can produce more for us, we have to put in more. So it's a zero sum game in a lot of ways,. except we're creating a system of perpetual need from us and then we're playing this evolutionary arms race against nature," he says.

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