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Doing great work. Thanks.

And of course! Sterols! What I've been saying all along!

I’m with you, it’s confusing. But I think what it means is this:

The study ran for 90 days. Non-sterol bees had stopped doing bee sex by then. Sterol bees were doin it all the way up to the end of the 90 days - and then the study ended. We can therefore assume they wanted to continue having freaky beedsm sex for even longer.

Some were observed brooding for up to 12 weeks!

one group continued to the end of the study period, the other group had stopped by the same time

or, one group stopped doing a thing, and the other group didn't show signs of stopping

Gotta be AI bullshit. But I'm reading it as, group A never stopped while group B stopped breeding at the end of the period.

Your second sentence is your own thoughts, not part of the tldr summary, right? I think you should make that separation clear (in Wikipedia terms, I'm flagging this as "original research").

And then goes on to kill 30 times more.

Easy money? Do they pay rent?

I researched that, maybe it's just in Australia but apparently the bees here don't use those bee hotels? They apparently just get stacked with earwigs. I read the best thing you can do for bees here is plant native flowering plants like the Bottle Brush, and let leaves biodegrade naturally instead of hoovering em up.

We need more food and less pesticides for our bees more than houses for bees in the US.

No really, it's really bad. Flowering seasons across much of the south and west have been reduced, farmland and pesticides everywhere, people don't grow gardens in suburbs and everything is suburbs.

In the early 2000's I could drive across country and have to stop at every gas station to clean my windshield. Now on the same exact route my windshield is almost spotless after 5 hours on the road. This is really, really bad. It's not just bees, it's everything.

Also please check whether honey bees are native in your area. If they're not (or if there's too many of them) it leads to decline of other bee species and threatens other pollinators and rare plant species.

Genetically engineered to be attracted to minorities and immigrants

Sorta. If you're a beekeeper I can see this being a major deal. Not clear on how hard this yeast is to grow or how well the process scales.

Bees got a threefold problem, and we need to get at the roots of the issue.

• Pesticides and herbicides. Won't happen, but governments need to ban these products for consumers, restrict them to professionals. Karen and Ken don't need a perfect lawn sacrificing the bottom of the food chain.

• We need to grow more, and more indigenous, plants of all kinds. Working on it in my yard, doing well so far. Last year the bumblebees were so loud I thought it was construction on the next block over. :)

• Verona mites are a monster issue. They came to America in the 90s and are whipping our ass. Haven't looked into beekeeping for awhile, not sure where we're at with that.

Good for bee keepers, but most plants are pollinated by wild bees. So this could help, but doesn't really change much in the grand scheme.

The whole "save the bees" thing is about wild bees, not domesticated ones I think

The European honeybee in the Americas is kinda a double edged sword. It's an invasive species, which both steals resources from and spreads diseases to native bees. However, for better or worse at this point a good portion of agriculture is dependent upon the European honey bee.

... And they produce honey, which I like.