The Bee Crisis

[Blue Frost]

Hey Gary, you say you have Bee Keeper friends ?
i was wondering how do they cut grass around those hives without getting the bees mad.

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[Gary Oak]

There obviously is conscious thought in those tiny bee brains. Perhaps brain size isn't an all determining sign of I level of intelligence.

[Blue Frost]

Intelligence without wisdom you are doomed to fail doing the same thing over, and over again.
Kind of like socialism, great idea, but it falls in onto itself in the end.

[Gary Oak]

My girlfriend and I strongly suspect that the queens of communal insects can communicate telepathically with their workers to some degree.

[Blue Frost]

They can communicate through smells she puts off.

[Gary Oak]

Chinese honey is legal is legal in Canada ? China doesn't have quality control. When I lived in China I would never eat their honey as it was so watery and obviously doctored that who knows what it really is and it is legally sold in Canada now ? The Chinese admire cleverness in a deceitful form and they obviously have found a way to get around out laws. There must be a trail. Canadian honey is as good as anywhere in the world and we don't have a market for our honey ? This is just wrong.

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Right now there are 7000 beekeepers, mostly family farms in Canada who tend to 600,000 hives of honeybees and depend on them to make a living. Canadians produce 75 million pounds of honey annually. Approximately 1/3 is produced in Alberta, 1/3 in Saskatchewan & Manitoba, and 1/3 from the rest of the country. Annually we produce more than enough honey to supply our domestic demand and then some!

But we are now in danger of losing the family farm. Canada's largest honey packer, Billy Bee, and their international corporate parent McCormick have all but stopped buying Canadian honey. Instead they choose to import cheaper honey from countries like China and Argentina and blend them with just enough Canadian honey so that they can still say Canadian on the bottle simply to improve their bottom line. There is definitely no shortage of Canadian honey!

Right now, there are beekeepers in Canada who are unable to sell their crops, or must do so below cost and are quickly becoming bankrupted. Some will be unable to provide sufficient spring feed for their bees and their bees may die before they get a chance to make this years honey crop. Some may be forced to close their doors and move off the farm. But not for lack of trying, it is estimated that there may be nearly half of last years honey crop still sitting unsold in storage across the country, all the while cheap imported honey is being put on your grocery shelves first or blended to stretch out supply and cheapen the ingredients. Hard working beekeepers deserve to have their honey bottled and available for Canadian consumers before any other honey is imported and sold inside of our own country.

Please tell Billy Bee that you stand with Canadian beekeepers and respectfully demand that they buy Canadian honey first and help ensure that the Canadian bee industry can remain a healthy one. Help us put a stop to blended and imported honey on our grocery shelves and pledge to buy only 100% pure Canadian honey. Help us make a difference. Help us provide good Canadian food for Canadian families.

[Blue Frost]

I was told Chinese honey had fillers in it, and possibly toxic byproducts. Local honey is the best honey unless you are in a very polluted area.

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Chaos in Arizona As 20,000 Bees Fight Jihad Against Muslims

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[Gary Oak]

Can you imagine trying to move a metal nail that huge compared to yourself ! That bee found a ready made home. Digging a hope like that into a pie e of wood would have a been a lot harder.

[Blue Frost]

Wild bees are neat, I have some living in a bamboo wind chime.

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How great is this
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[Gary Oak]

ThAnks for posting that video Bluefrost. I am sure that any beekeeper will be interested in both those videos

[Blue Frost]

Well if anything maybe get an idea, a little heater in a hive occasionally to heat those pesty mites up.
gotta wonder though how about the bees wax melting point

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