As a result of the massive die-offs, more and more small beekeepers are choosing not to continue their beekeeping businesses and also because of the rising costs of buying and re-building new colonies. Some beekeepers just cannot afford to stay in business.
This is not good news for consumers as the availability of local, pure, quality bee products declines and adulterated sugar laden honey products from mega-conglomerates and foreign suppliers take up the empty shelf space that our local beekeepers otherwise filled.
Additionally, as more local small businesses decline, the entire local community suffers a little more as less jobs are available and less revenue is generated which is income that would normally be spent and shared within their own communities.
This is also bad news for growers of foods and herbs because it increases their costs for importing bee colonies from other regions to pollinate their crops.
Remember if there are no pollinators then there will eventually be no food and no nutritional supplements and in the meantime costs will skyrocket for the simple things we currently take for granted.
This is a bigger problem than most people realize.
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Thanks for your work to save the BEES! There are several aspects of your project that ring a bell with me.
1. planting seeds of wildflowers from which the BEES harvest pollen.
2. comparing the results of the inserted magnets in test hives with production of untreated hives.
3. discovery that treated hives wake up in the spring, ready to go back to their harvesting of pollen, while untreared hives are not up to full strength, or may have perished over the winter.
4. Honey from treated hives is far superior to normal honey.
I wonder how the magnets could be applied to another insect; the Monarch Butterfly. In particular to the Methusulah generation that starts from the northern extent of its range and flies all the way back to the forests of central Mexico.
I wish you well in your efforts to save the BEES. GOD bless you!
Douglas Roger Dexheimer, Overland Park, Kansas