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[-] LordWiggle@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years 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.

[-] vert3xo@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago

No one is talking about starving the bees. Someone already pointed out that bees are territorial and not great for the local insect population. You can let bees spread but there are better ways to do it. Bees do work because they think they need to, the thing is you can help them and have leftover honey that they don't need to use. You don't even need to limit the to one colony.

But to be fair our bees are nowhere near any urban areas nor pesticides so it might be different elsewhere.

[-] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

So far, trying to control nature isn't going that well. The more we do, the more we fuck it up. Maybe we should give nature some time to recover from our destruction without intervention.

[-] vert3xo@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago

Generally you're not wrong but when it comes to European honey bees (which are the most common for honey production) they are presumed extinct in the wild. They need to be treated multiple times throughout the year (and it's increasing due to climate change). Also these bees have been imported to Americas where they are not native so controlling them is very important there.

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