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Nash Turley"save the bees" shouldn't be something associated with honey bees, they are agricultural animals and they get plenty of attention, it's native bees that need more study and protection. A good video by Vox about #beewashing
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rsp@nashturley Quote from video "saying Save the Bees and using the honeybee as the example is like saying save the birds and using the chicken as your example" Love things like this that make the point clear.
@rspfau yeah, some people don't like that comparison because many of the things that could maybe help honey bees might also help native bees, like wildflower plantings and decreased pesticides etc. but even with that I think it's still a good and eluminating analogy
Sohail Mirza@nashturley Yeah, this was an eye-opening video. Happy to have been informed on the topic.
Erik@nashturley
I keep saying this (not my quote):
Helping insects by keeping honey bees is like helping birds by keeping chickens in huge stables.
mr_daemon@nashturley I did not even know there were so many other kinds of bees at all, we've really been sleeping on this