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Default "California drought stings bees, honey supplies"

On 8/21/2014 10:31 AM, notbob wrote:
> On 2014-08-21, Ema Nymton > wrote:
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>> have a friend who depends on bees, his hives produce honey in San Antonio.

>
> Recently watched a documentary on bees. One beekeeper in AZ solved
> the CCD problem by changing to only killer bees. He offers to remove
> K-bees from homes, then sets them up in their own hive in a remote
> spot in the desert where they will have plenty of access to native
> flowering desert plants. Yes, he must take precautions, like extra
> protective bee clothing, but he reaps maga amts of natural organic
> honey, which he sells at the local farmer's mkt.
>
> nb


Here, and elsewhere, Africanized killer bees have been breeding with
European honey bees and it makes for some feisty baby bees. Killer bees
will kill a few people in the Houston area, every year. These bees do
not like loud noises, like tractors, blowers, chainsaws, so they reach
out and kill the perpetrator.

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