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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Not all pollen is the same

« Last post by Terri Yaki on May 14, 2024, 12:16:30 pm »

As a kid, I used to think my mother was just a cheapskate because we hardly had any junk food to eat whilst all of my friends had all kinds of good stuff. That might be the case but later in life, she told me that she did that so we wouldn't eat it all and get fat. I get a kick out of watching the bands from my yute and the '70s. They're all way skinny for their height with the exception of Meatloaf. Any picture you see of today's Americans is full of overfed people, including me. Thank God for today's technology because I don't think we could win a ground war today.

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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Not all pollen is the same

« Last post by Michael Bush on May 14, 2024, 12:07:47 pm »

I think obesity is more a matter of the food processors and the USDA recommendations.

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: A General Hive Question

« Last post by The15thMember on May 14, 2024, 12:07:14 pm »

The brood nest can absolutely get larger than that, but in my experience in my climate, most of my hives have 3 mediums of brood, plus whatever supers are needed for the current flow.  The thing that limits their growth is just the yearly cycle.  In climates with a winter at least, colonies will increase in population until the summer solstice, at which point they will start to contract and prep for winter.   

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: A General Hive Question

« Last post by Michael Bush on May 14, 2024, 12:06:05 pm »

Sometimes in a bumper crop flow the number of supers can grow out of control, but as soon as the flow is over the population tends to drop back quickly.  There does seem to be an upward limit as to how many bees they will raise.

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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Not all pollen is the same

« Last post by Kathyp on May 14, 2024, 11:35:40 am »

We have a lot of things we didn't used to have.  Everything from allergies to obesity.

The reasons are probably multiple and complicated. 

People used to eat what they grew and what was local.  Now we eat too much and stuff from all over the world.  That means exposure is up and the chance for a reaction increases. 

Back in the day, if someone was severely allergic to something, they died.  Since many things, including a tendency toward allergies, can run in families, if you don't live long enough to breed, you don't pass on those tendencies.  In fact, I think this one thing accounts for a lot of what we see now.  Many mental illnesses run in families.  Many health problems like certain cancers run in families. 

I'm not advocating for letting people die of treatable things, but we can track back increases in a lot of things to our ability to treat those things.
People worry about population increases, but population absent medical intervention, is self-limiting. 

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: A General Hive Question

« Last post by Kathyp on May 14, 2024, 11:23:41 am »

it is, but where you live may limit their growth.  It's probably not desirable.  It makes inspections really hard when you start stacking up the deeps.  When you get to that point, splitting is usually the way to go.  Increase your hives and decrease your lifting!   

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / A General Hive Question

« Last post by Terri Yaki on May 14, 2024, 10:52:48 am »

I'm going with two deeps for my brood boxes but I have a question about their population. Why does it stop at two deeps or three mediums? Does the population reach a dynamic equilibrium with that space or what? Is it possible to have more than those normal number of boxes?

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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Not all pollen is the same

« Last post by Terri Yaki on May 14, 2024, 10:50:02 am »

I never was allergic to pollen or anything else until I took the Flu shot in 2010.  I think he cause of all these allergies are the vaccines.

Something is causing it. As was stated above, nobody I knew growing up had all that garbage. One of my friends did have asthma thought, and I was jealous of it. He didn't have to mow the grass because of it. Growing up in a family with six kids, we did all get the regular illnesses like measles, german measles, chicken pox and the mumps. To this day, 'mumps' cracks me up. Where did they get that name from? I might have gotten some shots about 20 years ago when I went to Thailand on vacation but I don't remember. Other than that, no vaxes for me, tetanus shot only. I tell the doc that I used to eat my boogers when I was four years old so I'm good to go.

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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Not all pollen is the same

« Last post by Michael Bush on May 14, 2024, 09:38:20 am »

I never was allergic to pollen or anything else until I took the Flu shot in 2010.  I think he cause of all these allergies are the vaccines.

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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Not all pollen is the same

« Last post by Ben Framed on May 14, 2024, 08:58:12 am »

I do know that the air pollution here in the US is ten times better than it was when I was a child and I t adulthood. When we drove into or near almost any city in this country you could see a dome of haze over them. It was really bad and it was not healthy. I have not seen domes over any cities in this country in a long time.

Yes, we have moved all of that pollution to China and Taiwan.

Good point Terri; While many climate change gurus hail China, seemingly eager, giving them a hall pass.