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Date: | Thu, 15 Apr 2021 11:13:28 -0600 |
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Our impressions of stress, disruption, disease risk in honey bees and
beekeeping could be highly anthropomorphic. Maybe bees are different
from humans in more ways than we think. Are we producing too many
analogies that influence the way we operate colonies, teach others,
talk to the public?
There may be foci of disease and pests, but is the coming together of
bees from all places for almond pollination a major source of risk when
the whole countryside is already peppered with so many novices, people
with unrealistic views of bees, their biology and approaches to pest
and diseases? And diseased, abandoned and failing colonies?
A multiday cross country road trip may be hard on humans, but do
colonies really care about being locked up for a few days and not being
able to forage? Do bees experience road stress?
An invasion of one's home and search through all of the nooks and
crannies is highly disturbing to humans, but do bees really care beyond
the short period of the invasion and the consequences of smoking?
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