Honeybees in man-made hives may have been suffering the cold unnecessarily for over a century because commercial hive designs are based on erroneous science, my new research shows.
  • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
    26·
    1 year ago

    Animals cluster together when cold to stay warm also happen to feel pain from cold. So forcing them to be cold might be a problem. Makes sense. The issue with this is if the researchers wanted actual change they need to explain how this effects the bottom line such as productivity. Otherwise, corpos will not care.

    • RobotToaster@mander.xyz
      12·
      1 year ago

      It sounds like at least part of the solution is to stop refrigerating hives, which will save money at least.

      • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        I know Jack on this subject but it seems they also do it for the mites. Which probably also impact production.

  • Hirom@beehaw.org
    15·
    1 year ago

    I wonder how this affects bee survival rate.

    If some producers don’t pay attention to bee welfare, they probably care about survival rate.