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inetknght[dead post] ◴[] No.44434412[source]
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wyldberry ◴[] No.44434520[source]
Honeybees are not all bees, and are less important than wild/native ground bees[0]. By making this about trump, you are burying the lede here:

"Alarmingly, every single one of the mites the researchers screened was resistant to amitraz, the only viable mite-specific pesticide—or miticide—of its kind left in humans’ arsenal."

This is to be expected, eventually evolution will produce a small amount of a species that is resistant to a chemical, then those will likely be hyper successful at breeding. Honeybees are not native to the Americas, it seems like we've imported a major feast for these mites. Perhaps there's another organism that preys on these mites. Nature often provides the a cure with the poison.

[0] - https://choosenatives.org/articles/native-bees-need-buzz/

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1. lgas ◴[] No.44435879[source]
> Perhaps there's another organism that preys on these mites. Nature often provides the a cure with the poison.

Have we learned nothing from the old lady who swallowed the fly?