A great Tabled supporter who keeps a firm eye on my maths has emailed the following, which I hope he won't mind me paste-posting here as it's relevant: "…….in the context of a hive there is only limited coexistence. In the autumn, the worker bees, all female, and very much in the majority, decide that they have had enough of the lazy males and stop them entering the hive after they have taken their daily flight for exercise. Result : dead drones below the hive. Sensible. But I am not sure that the three named males (Lenin, Marx, Engels) would have agreed." Sounds familiar...
Your post is very pertinent. Today there was an article in our local paper in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany) about the honey crop which was very poor to non-existent throughout the region this year. The article attributed the failure to weather, but I'm sure some of the environmental factors you mention come into play here as well.
A great Tabled supporter who keeps a firm eye on my maths has emailed the following, which I hope he won't mind me paste-posting here as it's relevant: "…….in the context of a hive there is only limited coexistence. In the autumn, the worker bees, all female, and very much in the majority, decide that they have had enough of the lazy males and stop them entering the hive after they have taken their daily flight for exercise. Result : dead drones below the hive. Sensible. But I am not sure that the three named males (Lenin, Marx, Engels) would have agreed." Sounds familiar...
Your post is very pertinent. Today there was an article in our local paper in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany) about the honey crop which was very poor to non-existent throughout the region this year. The article attributed the failure to weather, but I'm sure some of the environmental factors you mention come into play here as well.
It is truly a disheartening thing to contemplate.
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