前一段时间看过一个关于蜜蜂的纪录片,more than honey2013,美国的蜂业和农业运作包括用卡车拖着蜂箱到处跑,以便于让蜜蜂去给农作物授粉,蜜蜂的待遇也和 Migrate worker差不多,一年到头蜜都被刮尽,冬天靠一点白糖水度日。
所以大量蜂群死亡于Colony Collapse Disorder,算是virus&mite和varroa collapse这些因素综合在一起造成的后果。
而在中国从除四害开始大规模破坏环境到滥用农药,像四川汉源这些地方早就没有蜜蜂了,都是靠人工授粉。
里面还提到爱因斯坦说过的话,如果蜜蜂灭绝了,人类社会也只能支撑四年。
就我理解他的意思应该是,patriarch society constantly need slaves,包括人和各种动物, 比如dominion2018里面就是谈各种其他动物的,动物作为奴隶的同时人也作为奴隶,异性作为奴隶的同时,同性也一样作为奴隶,层层的奴隶制,而奴隶不会造反,它们只会默默死去, 都灭绝了的时候,也就是父权制终结的时候。
Pollinators are responsible for one of every three bites of food we take, according to the agency, but their numbers have been declining for many years.
U.S. beekeepers lost nearly 40% of their honeybee colonies in winter 2019, according to a survey by the Bee Informed Partnership.
Bee decline has many causes, including decreasing crop diversity, poor beekeeping practices and loss of habitat. Pesticides weaken bees' immune systems and can kill them. Varroa mites latch onto honeybees and suck their "fat body" tissue, stunting and weakening them and potentially causing entire colonies to collapse.
A biotech firm says the U.S. has approved its vaccine for honeybees
The disease is caused by Paenibacillus larvae, a type of bacteria that affects the bee's larvae. The vaccine contains some of that bacteria, and it will be mixed in with the royal jelly, which worker bees secrete from their heads and then feed to the queen and larvae. When the queen eats the jelly, she will ingest fragments of the vaccine that will grant her offspring some immunity against the bacteria.
The vaccine is not genetically modified and can be used in organic agriculture, Dalan Animal Health said.
Pollinators are responsible for one of every three bites of food we take, according to the agency, but their numbers have been declining for many years.