• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    8 hours ago

    I hope those bees go off and build good lives for themselves out there in the wilderness and pollinate lots of flowers

  • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    “Drive more safely, you bastard!” zap

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  • yesman@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    It’s really interesting to describe bees as “loose”. What actually happened was a spontaneous pollination event.

    Maybe that’s what makes them “loose”. Using their labor in such a way that can’t be exploited by capital.

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      1 day ago

      What…

      Are we doing bee communist theory now?

      If anything, bees are happy to contribute to something greater than the sum of its parts. That’s how hives work.

      I’m not a vegan, but I can appreciate the values concerning animal welfare. Extending that to bees is just kinda silly to me. Nobody forces them to stay in the hive. They make more honey than they could ever use.

      And if we’re talking about stolen labor value, should farmers be paying for all the animals that work to pollinate their crops? What about the ladybugs that eat aphids? Or the worms that turn waste into compost? Or the spiders, centipedes, wasps, and countless other critters that keep crops free of pests?

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      2 days ago

      In a sense i agree, but the crash was in Summer in North Dakota and they are European honeybees.

      Honeybees are quite invasive in North America. They kill and displace native pollinators and they are generally less effective pollinators of native plants. The release of dozens more colonies into the ecosystem is a negative thing no matter how you look at it.

      North America has the greatest native bee diversity of any temperate part of the world, but if you go out into habitat and actually start counting insects you will find honeybees outnumber everything else in most places, most times of year.

    • VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 hours ago

      What’s this? Nearly 2 million bees let loose after a semi-truck crashed on the interstate? My Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sarcophagus full of bees oughta put a stop to that!

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    1 day ago

    Something like this was depicted in Chicago Fire television series. It was crazy. Turned into a Beenado taking down planes and shit. Fun to watch.

    Hope everyone is okay here.