Queen Bees and Women's Diminishing Fertility
While the commercial effects of Colony Collapse Disorder are reduced. Honey bees are still in trouble, these hives are surviving because queens are living less and less human management covers temporally the honey bee problem by replacing queens more quickly.. I like Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder, but she is totally off base here. To illustrate the problem, In Roman times there were so many swarms available hives were woven baskets and burned to harvest. New baskets would fill to replace the old. Today is different, wild swarms even if captured rarely survive to harvest. The queen is the heart of a multicellular organism that is the hive. The length of a hive's longevity is linked to the Queen's ability to lay eggs. As her quantity and quality with age are reduced a new queen is bred. In colony collapse disorder the queen seems to suffer from early onset "menopause". And her offspring seem to become senile or autistic. Indeed the hive's immune system is impaired. Historically, in the nineteenth century, beekeepers replaced the queen every 25 years (nota bene: in a related insect, termite queens live for about 50 years) as late as the 1990s Nick Lane mentioned that bee queens lived about 7 to 12 years. Then the gold standard became 3 years, at present, I am hearing around 18 months or less. In humans, this solution would be akin to demanding young girls to have their first child between 16 and 18 years old and if the bees are any indication this would last only a short time. Women's fertility is declining by 1 or 2% each year and the numbers of autistic children which once was one child in the thousands in the 1970s is by some measures one in six. Don't you think it is a strange coincidence that both queen bees and human females are both facing a fertility decline at the same time at a similar rate with parallel cognitive dysfunction of their respective offspring? Read Countdown by Dr Shanan Swan to get a handle on how world wide women's offspring and fertility is declining at the same pace, just as for all bees from bumble bees to honey bees https://www.shannaswan.com/countdown. What seems reprehensible is the number of articles stating that honey bees are just fine and that they are even part of the problem as part of a consorted effort to attack farming in general.
Sincerely Professor C.G. YUKNA
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