Might want to buy extra bees, Brad

[rcjordan]

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/13/8602301/honeybees-dying-colonies

[Brad]

Yeah, this is one of those things that are even scarier because we don't know the cause.

[Woz]

Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Another Beek in th3core!

Actually, we do know the cause - stress! The poor girls are being assaulted from all angles - pesticides, monocultures, transportation, poor food sources, diseases, "medicines" to treat said diseases, the list goes on. A colleague here in Aus, who knows more about bees and beekeeping than anyone could imagine, has just written a new book on the subject. I was chatting with him the other day and he mentioned that he tried writing a chapter on the future of beekeeping many times but each time he gave up. "Woz, every time I looked into the problems bees are being faced with, I ended up  with Conventional Agriculture as the cause."