Posted on Aug 21, 2025
Scientists make 'superfood' that could save honeybees
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Scientists have developed a honeybee "superfood" that could protect the animals against the threats of climate change and habitat loss. Bee colonies that ate the supplement during trials had up to 15 times more baby bees that grew to adulthood.
Honeybees are a vital part of food production and contribute to pollinating 70% of leading global crops.
Honeybees are a vital part of food production and contribute to pollinating 70% of leading global crops.
Scientists make 'superfood' that could save honeybees
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Lt Col Charlie Brown Excellent news. We need the bees more than most realize. My son had about nine or ten colonies at one time but lost all but two to colony collapse.
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Growing up with a beekeeper, let me clarify a couple of points. First is that bees do not pollinate 70% of the global crops, which are rice, wheat, corn, soybeans and sugar cane, none of which require an outside pollinator. They help pollinate 70% of the flowering crops. Bees in the US have been though several population collapse since I was a kid, Varroa Mite being the cause of several of them, but drought and winter storms have done their share. My father lost most of his hives in the winter of 1978. The populations bounce back pretty quick once those causes are removed. My point being that the honey bee populations in the US are not falling, but in fact expanding.
The last little tidbit is that the Honey Bee is an invasive species and is not native.
The last little tidbit is that the Honey Bee is an invasive species and is not native.
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Sgt Jim Belanus
yup, another fact, when canola became a go to crop around here it did need bees to help pollinate. It has be bread to self pollinate now and bees are not needed. However this is the largest honey producing state because of the canola. Bees are started out in Jan or Feb in southern Cal and by late june they are on the 49th working canola and sunflowers.
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CPT Lawrence Cable
Sgt Jim Belanus - I think a lot of the data used originally was based on the loses by commercial pollinating companies that moved their hives to whatever location needed a lot of bees. Moving a colony of bees stresses them and increased the loses far above the ariary's that are static.
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Sgt Jim Belanus
CPT Lawrence Cable - The outfit that puts bees on my ground are from a little town North of Fresno. They start around San Deigo in Jan and but the 10th of June are in the middle of the country and on the Canadian border. They have expanded their operation and have a large wintering building south of us. Bees seem to survive the cold weather and supplied with sugar water from what they told me. Lots of bitching about the bees on the windshields' of vehicles.
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