SweetBrea
SweetBrea t1_iwc4z03 wrote
Reply to comment by DonUdo in The lifespans of honey bees living in laboratory environments has dropped about 50% over the last 50 years, hinting at possible causes for the worrisome trends across the beekeeping industry, according to new research by University of Maryland entomologists. by Wagamaga
Because they literally claim they are "independent of environmental stressors". How could they be sure it isn't environmental if they were just repeatedly harvesting them from, ya know, the environment?
SweetBrea t1_iwc1mye wrote
Reply to comment by DonUdo in The lifespans of honey bees living in laboratory environments has dropped about 50% over the last 50 years, hinting at possible causes for the worrisome trends across the beekeeping industry, according to new research by University of Maryland entomologists. by Wagamaga
You don't think a negative impact can take generations to really start to be observable to us? You don't think generations in a lab without access to the environment that builds an immune system can eventually have large effects on the population as a whole?
SweetBrea t1_iwc1haf wrote
Reply to comment by CrackersII in The lifespans of honey bees living in laboratory environments has dropped about 50% over the last 50 years, hinting at possible causes for the worrisome trends across the beekeeping industry, according to new research by University of Maryland entomologists. by Wagamaga
More likely it is too clean and as such they cannot develop well rounded immune systems.
SweetBrea t1_iwc0z4u wrote
Reply to comment by Alphadice in The lifespans of honey bees living in laboratory environments has dropped about 50% over the last 50 years, hinting at possible causes for the worrisome trends across the beekeeping industry, according to new research by University of Maryland entomologists. by Wagamaga
>This happened under lab conditions though.
Forcing bees to live in an entirely unnatural setting couldn't possibly have any negative impact, right?
SweetBrea t1_iwc5rs7 wrote
Reply to comment by nuck_forte_dame in The lifespans of honey bees living in laboratory environments has dropped about 50% over the last 50 years, hinting at possible causes for the worrisome trends across the beekeeping industry, according to new research by University of Maryland entomologists. by Wagamaga
I am saying the methods they are using to compare the apples to apples may be what is actually affecting the apples... or bees if you will.