Comment on Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold
dumnezero@piefed.social 2 months ago
Beekeepers provide colonies with pollen substitutes, but these feeds do not sustain brood production because they lack essential sterols found in pollen.
So they were being starved by the bee farmers. Got it.
huf@hexbear.net 2 months ago
you mean bees need more than sugarwater to live? huh.
Paragone@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
Farmers provide their animals, bees included, with what feed they can buy.
The fact that animal-feed is chemically-deficient isn’t the fault of the farmers, it is the fault of shoddy standards in animal-feed being more profitable than quality/integrity’s standards,
& nobody legislated proper-nutrition-requirements for things like animal-food, baby-food, etc.
For-profit operations ONLY increase their costs when that increases profits, XOR when they’re coerced into producing correct product/service.
Basic narcissism-centered economics, that.
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