Super interesting article in Jalopnik today on bee transportation, and bees. I keep bees, and didn't know alot that was in it.
On another note, there needs to be more general information articles like this. I can't be the only one that is sick of making everything political, or biased, or paid for. just tell me cool stuff.
https://jalopnik.com/that-big-rig-youre-passing-might-be-full-of-bees-1834383949
lnlogauge said:On another note, there needs to be more general information articles like this. I can't be the only one that is sick of making everything political, or biased, or paid for. just tell me cool stuff.
It’s out there, you just have to work a little bit to find it. Four days ago I learned about butterfly farms (via news that’s four years old), and today (unrelatedly/unexpectedly) read that ‘captive raised butterflies can’t migrate.
Also, last week I read bout Narlugas...
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/06/narluga-very-strange-hybrid-whale/592057/
there’s plenty out there, you just need to broaden your reading sites
Cool articles, thanks for sharing.
I once wanted to be a migrant beekeeper. I finally sobered up.
I found an old article yesterday about the Titanoboa snake. Largest snake ever found, lived about 5 million years after the dinosaur.
The fossils they found put it at 42' 9" long with a diameter around 3' and weighing more than 2,000lbs. They believe at the time it was THE apex predator on planet hunting crocodiles and the like.
EDIT: I had heard of the bee problems and being transported before, but still a neat article.
I rode with my son who had a nucleus and 10,000 buzzers on the back seat, "Please don't crash!"
I have transported boxes full of bees in a Cessna 404. UPS would use it he company that I flew for to handle it he excess freight. Bees were packed 5000 per box if I recollect. I always thought that they should be classified as hazmat.
It's become a more common thing since colony collapse disorder has become more wide spread. I think I became aware of it six or seven years ago when a bee transporter crashed.
I've become one of those people who decided not to fight nature since then. If I need to fertilize it, or water it beyond the transplant stage, it probably shouldn't be there. My yard is a mix of wild strawberries and mown down local grasses as a result. We get a lot of bees and butterflies in the front and eastern fields plus turtles and our cool ass fox family.
We all know how that worked out in Delaware. I even had this as my avatar for a while:
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