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Re:Vaccine for Honeybees Against American Foulbrood by tptacek on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:51AM (#34325676)
That would be fitting, because, at least in North America, neither has any meaningful ecological role outside of being livestock. If anything, it's ecologically problematic to make honeybees even more competitive against native pollinators. Let the Paenibacillus do its work!
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Re:Vaccine for Honeybees Against American Foulbrood by mrguyorama on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @02:18PM (#34330038)
What natural pollinators exist in north america and are they adapted enough to an agriculture based society that they will meet our pollinating needs?

If you have a cheap, easy solution to pollination in america for various industrialized crops, you can go make bank right now.

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Re:Vaccine for Honeybees Against American Foulbrood by tptacek on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @05:19PM (#34332355)
Of course not. Agriculture in the US is an industrial process, not an ecological one. Nature doesn't want California to be producing all these almonds, but that's what the bees are there to help happen.
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