It’s the bees needs.
It has what bees crave!!
QUICK. What flowers produce pollen high in Sterol.
Let it bee know they need sterol!
Hope they can get it to mass production. I have some bees in the area and would love to help the little guys.
Allow native wild flowers and plants to grow and get rid of the damn grass.
Well this story is the bee's needs!
What if we just stopped stealing their honey?
It's not the honey that produces the nutrient.
The nutrient comes from a plant and climate change is probably altering plant biology to make this nutrient harder to come by. Not to mention the supplemental feed given to bees late fall through early spring (a period where honey harvests have ceased) probably lacked that nutrient.
So, not harvesting honey wouldn't be the answer. Honey bees have been apart of the agricultural process for thousands of years (honey was harvested as far back as ancient Egypt and was used in the mummification process). So, if we stopped honey harvesting, it would be detrimental to both bees and the agricultural system.
Debatable if it is considered stealing as beekeepers usually care of the bees, monitor possible diseases, and keep them from harm by providing suitable shelter.
How about we change the harvesting methods to be more bee-friendly.
Lol wut. Most honey today means killing all the bees every season and buying a new batch from the breeders the next season.
They don't "take care" of the bees any more than a butcher "takes care" of their pigs
In a standard bee hive setup you don't even extract honey from for over a year. You have to ensure a population that is high and only take when there would be abundance. It would be counter productive to extract too much honey because it makes their population not grow as fast, and therefore end in lower honey production. I doubt bee farmers are trying to get less honey.
Well, you can't have infinite growth if you can't house them. At some point, all you beehives are full so you take as much as possible without hindering the population.
If their population gets to big dont they just split essentially, the old queen and a bunch of bees "swarm" which is just them moving elsewhere, which the old hive usually just raises a new queen and keeps going.
Or are you saying they are worried to many bees will leave or they may not get a new queen in time?
What I was talking about is taking honey from bees. You take too much some of them will die, you don't take any the population will grow. Beekeepers know how much honey to take so they won't breed too much and split (because you bees expanding and splitting doesn't benefit you).
Do you have any idea how hard it is to milk each and every bee.
I prefer to milk sugar canes.
Colonies fed with the enriched diet were more likely to continue rearing brood up to the end of the three-month period, whereas colonies on sterol-deficient diets ceased brood production after 90 days.
Uhh m not crazy right, that's the same thing?
I’m with you, it’s confusing. But I think what it means is this:
The study ran for 90 days. Non-sterol bees had stopped doing bee sex by then. Sterol bees were doin it all the way up to the end of the 90 days - and then the study ended. We can therefore assume they wanted to continue having freaky beedsm sex for even longer.
one group continued to the end of the study period, the other group had stopped by the same time
or, one group stopped doing a thing, and the other group didn't show signs of stopping
Some were observed brooding for up to 12 weeks!
Amateurs, I've been brooding for years!
Gotta be AI bullshit. But I'm reading it as, group A never stopped while group B stopped breeding at the end of the period.
Why in hell is poorly written text "AI bullshit" now? An LLM would probably write that in a clearer way.
Were articles irreprehensibly written up to 3 years ago?
Fuckin old men of Restelo!
For me it's because the study is dated August 2025. Everything after November 2022 is suspect.
Sterols. Lipids found in pollen. Specifically, yeast enriched with sterols.
Doing great work. Thanks.
And of course! Sterols! What I've been saying all along!
I am expecting the Trump Regime to take this miracle and use it to raise Murder Hornet colonies or something.
And issue an executive order renaming the European Honey Bee to the American Honey Bee.
Shhhh don't tell them about Italian bees. I want to start a hive when I buy a place. If they know about them they'll surely try to kill them off somehow
Bigly bees. The best.
Genetically engineered to be attracted to minorities and immigrants
Fun facts: "killer bees" are also known as "africanized bees". In the 1970s there was great alarm in the US about the spread of africanized bee strains because they're so much more aggressive than European bees. There was even a terrible horror movie about it, but this particular catastrophe never materialized. I had a friend in graduate school in the '90s who was part of a team of scientists investigating the problem. It turns out that if you raise an africanized queen in a temperate climate, the bees she produces are no more aggressive than European bees; likewise, a European queen raised in a hot, tropical climate produces bees just as hyper-aggressive as typical africanized bees. So the entire thing was just bee racism all along. Bracism?
Of course global heating is going to make this a bigger problem everywhere, but fortunately we'll be fucked a lot worse by all the other problems this is going to produce.
It turns out that if you raise an africanized queen in a temperate climate, the bees she produces are no more aggressive than European bees; likewise, a European queen raised in a hot, tropical climate produces bees just as hyper-aggressive as typical africanized bees.
I can confirm that - because I live in a temperate region rather close to where those bees started spreading, so we got them rather early. And yet the bees here aren't specially aggressive or something like that, they will attack you if you mess with their hive but that's it, odds are that non-hybrid European bees do the same.
I lived in the Southwest when the africanized bees arrived, and there was indeed a sharp increase in attacks, a couple deaths over a a number of years, a lot of pets getting attacked. Then people just moved on and people learned to not fuck around with hives.
I don't know if it was the queens de-agressing in the new environment or public awareness or just media hype dying down, or all of the above, but yeah, it turned out to be the least of our actual worries in the 21st century.
Really? This is super interesting. I have been stressing out about when the swarms of murder bees reach me here in the north still in 2020s and you are telling me this is one of the few things I didn't need to worry about...
"Oh, so we can kill 15 times more before it becomes an issue" - Monsanto, probably
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