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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Did you read the article? Freeing the slaves gives them the capacity to recover.

Dave Goulson, professor of biology at the University of Sussex, says the study provided no evidence that the viral load was higher in weaker colonies. “Almost all bee colonies have these viruses, but they only do significant harm when the colony is stressed.”

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Slaves? Oh FFS. Have you talked to the bees lately? Maybe they like having nice manmade hives.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    They don't. The process of getting them to make honey is based on driving them to be in panicked, disaster recovery mindset all the time.

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