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GeekyBear ◴[01 Jul 25 15:05 UTC] No.44434645[source]▶

The standard practice for commercial crops is to bring in commercial hives of bees for pollination season that are shipped together via truck from crop to crop and region to region.

https://sweetharvestfoods.com/the-commercial-honey-bee-trave...

That sounds like a great opportunity to spread the resistant parasites from hive to hive and region to region.

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1. cogman10 ◴[01 Jul 25 15:25 UTC] No.44434867[source]▶

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Doesn't even seem like this is something that couldn't or shouldn't be region locked.

These companies are likely aren't saving more than a few percentage by centralizing and distributing.

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