Idle dreamer
find religion! church
kiva! hyvä! iloinen! pikkumaatila
get stung! beehives
be hospitable! host-a-hive
be antisocial! facespace
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
used as a prop for industrial agriculture, the technology of keeping honey bees is probably a net harm. used in a way that complements and benefits existing ecosystems and supports other regenerative practices, that technology can be entirely positive.
Argue for your limitations and they are yours forever.
Marci Sudlow wrote:I wonder how long it will be before humans attempt to domesticate and exploit the bumblebee.
that ship sailed a while back.
Marci Sudlow wrote:Wasn't successful then, I take it?
Joseph Lofthouse wrote:I welcome all species of plant and animal to my farm, regardless of where they were living last week, last century, or last millennium. I don't wage war on life.
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Argue for your limitations and they are yours forever.
Mike Barkley wrote:The honeybees weren't wiping out any other bees at that time.
find religion! church
kiva! hyvä! iloinen! pikkumaatila
get stung! beehives
be hospitable! host-a-hive
be antisocial! facespace
Argue for your limitations and they are yours forever.
Mike Barkley wrote:Maybe the best approach will be to help all the bees not just honeybees. Restoring native plants, etc.
Should I be planting natives from the honeybees homeland, which would be non-native where they are currently living in the Americas?
Argue for your limitations and they are yours forever.
Argue for your limitations and they are yours forever.
Tyler Ludens wrote:This article https://theconversation.com/bee-battles-why-our-native-pollinators-are-losing-the-war-40620 is about the non-native Wool-carder Bee, not the Honey Bee.
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Examine your lifestyle, multiply it by 7.7 billion other ego-monkeys with similar desires and query whether that global impact is conscionable.
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Trace Oswald wrote:Do other people find the whole native, non-native, invasive, discussions exhausting? It seems to me that invasive is just a label tacked onto something to put it automatically in a bad light. Native and non-native is just as unappealing to me. How long does a thing have to be somewhere to be native? 100 years? 1,000? Since the ice age? Forever?
Trace Oswald wrote:Do other people find the whole native, non-native, invasive, discussions exhausting?
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu
Trace Oswald wrote:Do other people find the whole native, non-native, invasive, discussions exhausting? It seems to me that invasive is just a label tacked onto something to put it automatically in a bad light. Native and non-native is just as unappealing to me. How long does a thing have to be somewhere to be native? 100 years? 1,000? Since the ice age? Forever?
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The thought revealed: Are Honey Bees, whose plight for survival in the wake of Colony Collapse Disorder has captured the hearts and imaginations of progressives and conservatives alike, throughout the world, an invasive species?
Argue for your limitations and they are yours forever.
nature created me. So, I think that, perhaps, whatever I do is natural
Examine your lifestyle, multiply it by 7.7 billion other ego-monkeys with similar desires and query whether that global impact is conscionable.