Colony Collapse Disorder

[Occhidiangela]

A cable tv show recently had an episode devoted to wild bee hive removal, and how dangerous it's gotten because of the African bees. The hives that have "gone African" still produce a lot of honey.

My fading memory spiked just now: the Africanized bees, as it were, have different habits than the honey bees, and their behaviors seem to reduce the pollen spreading function of honey bees, not honey, thanks for poking my memory.

If you see it on, I recommend it, tho its informational transfer rate is typical of cable, not that high. You'll want to have a magazine while it's on.

I usually do, and my wife goes nuts that I do the both at the same time.

The sad story in it was that of a man whose family members were attacked. He carried his granddaughter into the house -- she survived because of that -- but in so doing he left his wife to come in on her own. Grandma didn't make it, she was covered with bees when he came back for her, she died. I feel he did the right thing, and I bet Grandma would agree. But the man feels that he failed.

Nature can be deadly.

Occhi