• @Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    Bees have been under assault for a while.

    It’s hive mites. The Varroa mite is going to wipe out all bees from the planet. And there’s not a damn thing we can do about it.

    Source: talked to a beekeeper.

    • Phil Ociraptor
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      151 month ago

      there’s a fungus that protects against the mites and it’s being researched. it’s genius, the bee picks up the fungus in a contraption where it has to crawl through to get to nectar and then brings it back to the hive. i read it in Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life.