No mention of the bacterium’s effects on people, so I’m assuming it’s not harmful, but that’s pretty crazy to read. I wonder how amateur bee keepers look out for and deal with this.
That last note on the Wikipedia mentioning that there is a vaccine for this is great tho.
We usually can see it but only once it’s too late. If you’re fast you can usually get rid of all the brood comb and pray it doesn’t continue to spread but usually the hive is a goner.
It’s spotted by discoloured larva, a bad smell and poke tests. It’s one of those diseases you can’t really manage. It contributes to hive collapse syndrome along with varoa mites which we’re still studying.
A big reason this disease gets to spread along with Varoa is because of factory farming of honey and the global transportation of colonies for annual pollination cycles. Especially barley and other grain.
Capitalism is literally at fault for hive collapse syndrome.
This is one of those things where I question, “has this always been the case and people back wherewhen just dealt with the risks”, or “is this an entirely new phenomenon to do with our effects on this decaying world”
Probably both? Everything evolves, and all that. It spreads because of the way bees build honey combs. I would say that we probably accelerated the process through the domestication and forced reproduction of large numbers of bees.
That is my HYPOTHESIS based on an article I just read. Take that untested theory with a grain of salt.
TIL
No mention of the bacterium’s effects on people, so I’m assuming it’s not harmful, but that’s pretty crazy to read. I wonder how amateur bee keepers look out for and deal with this.
That last note on the Wikipedia mentioning that there is a vaccine for this is great tho.
We usually can see it but only once it’s too late. If you’re fast you can usually get rid of all the brood comb and pray it doesn’t continue to spread but usually the hive is a goner.
It’s spotted by discoloured larva, a bad smell and poke tests. It’s one of those diseases you can’t really manage. It contributes to hive collapse syndrome along with varoa mites which we’re still studying.
A big reason this disease gets to spread along with Varoa is because of factory farming of honey and the global transportation of colonies for annual pollination cycles. Especially barley and other grain.
Capitalism is literally at fault for hive collapse syndrome.
“It is globally distributed and burning of infected colonies is often considered as the only effective measure to prevent spreading of the disease.”
Bee zombie outbreak wtf. How have I never heard of this?
The spores are also visible for 40 years according to the the wiki
This is one of those things where I question, “has this always been the case and people back wherewhen just dealt with the risks”, or “is this an entirely new phenomenon to do with our effects on this decaying world”
Probably both? Everything evolves, and all that. It spreads because of the way bees build honey combs. I would say that we probably accelerated the process through the domestication and forced reproduction of large numbers of bees.
That is my HYPOTHESIS based on an article I just read. Take that untested theory with a grain of salt.
Well that was a fascinating read. Thank you.