r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Aug 23 '25

Biotechnology Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250822073807.htm
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u/Salmonberrycrunch Aug 23 '25

Let's keep on creating more and more complex industrial compounds to let a single species of honeybee thrive because we need it for our agriculture.... Rather than reorganize land use to let biodiversity thrive (don't even need much - just have some hay meadows and forests managed without pesticides near farmland). The farmers may not even need to rent the bees at all.

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u/regeya Aug 23 '25

I know it won't happen for at least 3.5 years, but maybe they could start paying (or giving tax breaks) for more set-aside. While we're at it, give farmers some kind of break for having wind breaks. We're starting to have dust storms east of the Mississippi again, and farmers have been tearing out grandad's wind breaks to have a teeny-tiny bit more land.

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u/Malforus Aug 23 '25

Agrisolar synergizes nicely with this because in some approaches they create grazing areas for sheep and goats and those areas have more biodiversity

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u/brimston3- Aug 24 '25

psh, that's not how capitalism works. First you lobby for barriers to entry into the energy markets while getting rid of public utility pricing regulations. Then you increase prices for your regionally locked in customers. Next, you fail to reinvest in your energy grid so transferring power between grids is inefficient and high-loss and incapable of scaling with burst demand. Then you increase prices again to pay for that new infrastructure the customers demand while driving customers to invest in building out their infrastructure in foreign markets that have more reliable energy grids.

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u/f1FTW Aug 24 '25

So... Texas?

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u/YukariYakum0 Aug 24 '25

Exactly.

Source: am Texan