Finally some good news!!!
Bees love cannabis, and it’s helping to restore their declining populations
Saturday, February 01, 2020 by:
Ethan Huff
Tags: agriculture, arrested, banned, bees, cannabis, Cannabis sativa, colony collapse disorder, corruption, harvest, hemp, Illegal, jailed, pollen, pollinators, populations, Prohibition, red states
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New research published in the journal
Environmental Entomology has found that bees absolutely love to feed on
cannabis sativa, which in turn is helping to boost their dwindling populations caused by prolific exposure to deadly crop chemicals like neonicotinoids and Roundup (glyphosate).
Entitled, “The Bee Community of
Cannabis sativa and Corresponding Effects of Landscape Composition,”
this paper out of
Cornell University explains how
cannabis produces high amounts of pollen, which acts as a magnet for at least 16 different varieties of bees just in the northeastern United States alone.
As it turns out, the taller the
cannabis plant, the more attractive it is to bees, the paper found. In fact, the tallest
cannabis plants evaluated as part of the research attracted an incredible
17 times more bees than the shortest
cannabis plants – because bigger
cannabis plants contain more pollen and bees instinctively know it!
Oddly enough, even though
cannabis doesn’t produce the same sweet, sugary nectar as other floral plants that bees are typically attracted to, they love it just the same. The male
cannabis plants that bees tend to prefer also don’t produce the brightly-colored flora that normally catches bees’ attention, which makes this phenomenon even more fascinating.
It would seem as though bees simply know that
cannabis is an excellent source of food, just like
the Bible says it is. If only our country could finally achieve broad legalization and normalization of
cannabis, then perhaps Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD, would reverse itself entirely – this being one of the
many positive outcomes of ending
cannabis prohibition once and for all.
“The rapid expansion of hemp production in the United States … may have significant implications for agroecosystem-wide pollination dynamics,” the study explains.
“As a late-season crop flowering during a period of seasonal floral dearth, hemp may have a particularly strong potential to enhance pollinator populations and subsequent pollination services for crops in the following year by filling gaps in late-season resource scarcity.”
Will bees that recently fed on cannabis be arrested and thrown in prison if they accidentally fly into South Carolina or Idaho?