• Bees and Marijuana

    From Julian Macassey@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 9 21:31:51 2020
    An interesting article


    https://themindunleashed.com/2019/12/planting-hemp-maintain-bee-populations.html

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0961953419300248

    Highlights



    Industrial hemp cultivation is gaining popularity and its
    prolific pollen production may provide major ecological
    benefits.


    Bee pollinators continue to face challenges making it
    crucial to develop agroecosystem practices that can sustain
    bees.


    Industrial hemp can play an important role in providing
    sustained nutritional options for bees during the cropping
    season.


    We report 20 different genera of bees on flowering hemp
    demonstrating that hemp in the agroecosystem supports
    pollinators.


    This knowledge of bee diversity on hemp reiterates the
    need for integrated pest management as pests become common on
    hemp.

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  • From Charles Kroeger@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 12 13:51:49 2020
    Hi Julian,

    I read the article about the pollen production from hemp. there was a link on that article that really takes the cake:

    https://www.honeyflow.com/about/about-flow/flow-hive-honey-unique-flavor-in-every-frame/p/484

    knowing how bees make comb on foundation, I can't figure how this could work since there seems to be important technical explanations not included in the article. the explanation of how the hive works and the video shows it in action, I just can't take it from there and how all the chambers are ruptured or opened at the bottom of the cells..what do the bees think when they go and remove the caps to extract honey for their needs, and there is nothing in there. how do you remove the caps on the cells so the bees can refill the empty combs after you have filled your honey jars, painlessly in this case?

    is this some elaborate hoax? they are Australians after all.

    adios,

    C.K

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