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Honey Girl Grows
Any honey bee with DWV is not allowed back in the hive and will starve to death. Honey bees collapse of DWV quickly Hobbyist & commercial beekeepers don’t have a clue when or even how to treat, don’t rotate treatments (bad IPM), so varroa have become resilient. Beekeeping is SO much harder now 🌱🐝.
🌱 The USDA plant hardiness zones were updated for the first time in 11 years. It’s as if something has changed. 🥵
Drought across the entire US is predicted. 🌱 Gardening and farming and keeping critical pollinators alive is going to get harder and harder in climate warming and there ARE ways to reverse it. Step one, you have to vote it first like it’s the only thing that matters.
Stop voting GOP/Centrists.
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…“catch” or be infected with DWV from honey bees via flowers. YOU can help by planting flowers! More flowers, less spread!🌱🐝 (Cornell University repeat research - it is depressing how many beekeepers do not know this, and ask for proof). Worth watching! youtu.be/i1WUxk9HZU8 More on varroa later!
march away from the hive to die. 🌱 🐝
Varroa suck the fat from bee bodies, & can move make around the body leaving holes, making new. By the time a beekeeper can see a mite on the back of a honey bee, there are 3 on the belly, which they prefer. Native bee nests aren’t parasitized, but can…🌱🧵
Deformed Wing Virus (DWV). Spread from honey bees, via flowers (who also get the virus) 🌱 🐝it originates from an invasive varroa mite responsible for the annual 60-70% collapse of honey bees in EU, US & AU. Plant more flowers: Pink, Blue, White, Yellow, purple for bees Beekeepers fail to treat.
Here is a honey bee with Deformed Wing Virus (DWV)from invasive varroa mites. Make a fist, place it anywhere on your body, that’s the relative size of a mite for honey bees. Mites bite a portal into the body, leaving an open wound that lowers bee immunity. 🌱🐝 Unable to fly, they self sacrifice &…🧵
