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[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

When beekeepers take out honey to sell, or, increasingly, when there isn't enough pollen available, they give the insects supplementary food.

But that food is made up of protein flour, sugar and water, and has always lacked the nutrients bees require. It is like humans eating a diet without carbohydrates, amino acids, or other vital nutrients.

This is such dystopia stuff. We've solved the fact that we were killing the bees by stealing their honey and replacing it with sugar water(while trucking them from the south to their California Central valley almond crop monocultures and hoping they'll survive on that sugar water) with this "super food" that actually contains proteins required for life. I understand I'm not supposed to be a downer on uplifting news but this so very much does not uplift me.

[–] sga@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

you can deffinitely be a downer in comments, we all need a bit of reality check too

[–] whiwake@lemmy.cafe 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We should spend more time figuring out how to make honey ourselves.

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

There's a company already doing it.

[–] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Bee fertilizer! Nice one science!

[–] Spacenut@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Is it called honey?

Obviously this is not a cut and dry issue, because modern agriculture wouldn't exist without honeybees, but honeybees are an invasive species that crowd out more effective, native pollinators. For the most part we'd be better off not breeding them by the trillions (quadrillions?) and just leaving them alone

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's calledKill all humans

[–] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Catchy...

Just not release

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago

Wow, this is very uplifting news!

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

That's awesome. How do I get my hands my hands on it?