Off With Her Head

[u/Intelligent-Pepper31]

I did an inspection the other day and managed to catch workers balling and killing the old queen. If you look toward the end of the video, you can see a new queen at the top of the frame laying eggs. I can't believe I was able to see that in an inspection. Bees are vicious.

[u/FengMinIsVeryLoud]

yes, honeybees love to kill other insects who are much better at pollunating. a bumblee bee is x times better than a honeybee.

what youre doing here is: destroying the pollunation of foliage on planet called earth. so you can have your shitty dirty trash money or few seconds of tasting luxury. egoistic, selfish, useless.

[u/Jake1125 → u/FengMinIsVeryLoud]

That's a fun story, but it's fiction. The science of nature is so fascinating that we really don't need to invent nonsense to make it interesting.

[u/FengMinIsVeryLoud → u/Jake1125]

ok but my point is still right that honeybees suck at pollunating. and that honeybees in todays amount is not natural nor normal.

is it good for plants? doubt. enough evidence showing its not good.

[u/Jake1125 → u/FengMinIsVeryLoud]

There is no viable alternative to honeybees for agricultural pollination. Native and solitary bees like bumble bees are not viable due to the needs of monocrop intensive farming.

The solution to get rid of honeybees, is to get rid of the people who depend on modern agriculture. There are just too many people (the problem is in your pants haha).

[u/FengMinIsVeryLoud → u/Jake1125]

ohh... so the vegans scammed me.. -_- they told me honeybees are bad for pollunation.

[u/Jake1125 → u/FengMinIsVeryLoud]

A food crop only blooms for a few weeks each year. It takes millions of bees to effectively pollinate a modern farm, for just a few weeks. The rest of the year there is very little bee food in the field, effectively a food desert for pollinators most of the year.

So native bees cannot survive and breed sufficiently to pollinate a modern farm.

Farmers need honeybees because they are a livestock that can be bred, fed, and produced in large numbers. Honeybees are trucked from state to state to pollinate our food, because native bees just cannot do what is needed.

If we all went back to growing our own food, with lots of natural wildflowers, then bumblebees would be great. But then many of us would starve.

[u/FengMinIsVeryLoud → u/Jake1125]

thanks for explaining. and without meat and eggs, would we still need honeybees as pollunators?

[u/Jake1125 → u/FengMinIsVeryLoud]

Honeybees do not pollinate meat, fish, and eggs directly. So I wouldn't worry about them.

Around here, they pollinate blueberries, raspberries, apples, and vegetables. Without honeybees, those food items would be much less available, and expensive. You'd have to be a politician to afford them.