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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => DISEASE & PEST CONTROL => Topic started by: salvo on February 12, 2023, 11:29:19 pm

Title: Developing RNA to protect honeybees
Post by: salvo on February 12, 2023, 11:29:19 pm

Hi Folks,

GreenLight?s honeybee-saving RNA solution named finalist in World Changing Ideas Award.

https://youtu.be/0UnWUQiwAt8

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/greenlight-honeybee-saving-rna-solution-170400644.html

Sal

Title: Re: Developing RNA to protect honeybees
Post by: BeeMaster2 on February 12, 2023, 11:50:01 pm

I need to do some investigating on this RNA. Too tired right now to do it but it sounds interesting.
Jim Altmiller

Title: Re: Developing RNA to protect honeybees
Post by: Michael Bush on February 13, 2023, 08:24:59 am

Sounds horrible to me.

Title: Re: Developing RNA to protect honeybees
Post by: Ben Framed on February 13, 2023, 08:34:08 am

Sounds sometime like Gomer Pyle described as one of those science fiction movies where, "a scientist was experimenting with something he had not ought too"

Title: Re: Developing RNA to protect honeybees
Post by: Bob Wilson on February 18, 2023, 05:27:44 pm

I am dubious also. Sounds like round two of an already failed experiment, which tries to solve the problem in single hives. Another continual application, which can't solve the ongoing issue.
I do feel bad, though, for the commercial beeks. I have little financially riding on the success or failure of my beeyard.

Title: Re: Developing RNA to protect honeybees
Post by: Occam on February 19, 2023, 11:47:34 pm

When will we humans figure out we need to leave nature alone and stop being so arrogant to think we can fix everything? Nature is immensely resilient of we let it do it's thing.