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Bees and Beekeeping

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This community is all about bees and beekeeping. Your one-stop shop for best beekeeping practices supported by science, exciting new bee research, beekeeping Q&A, etc.

The focus is primarily on keeping Apis mellifera, but discussion of all bee species, even if they aren't managed by beekeepers, is welcome.

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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

The amount of bad news I have read in the last 15 minutes is really getting me down

[–] dumdum666@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

It is not the Honeybee population that has a problem- it’s the „wild“ bees like Bumblebees that die out. It weirds me out that insecticides are seemingly only tested on the species (honeybees) that grew in numbers over the last decades…