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  Technically it'll be paid for by the beekeepers, like all other treatments we give our bees, which they repay us in honey. Less free and more...barter system xD
context: The teeny tiny syringes... 0_0 >
  
  Finally we get to sting those sons of bitches back!   For real tho I hope this is successful. >
  
  Good luck getting these science-illiterate little guys to trust us. They'll drone on and on about about conspiracies you'd never beelieve. >
  
  Conspiracy beeorists. >
  
  Bumbling little fools. >
  
  Scully it's Mulder ... they're vaccinating the bees >
  
  I spent hours on the phone with my bee guy because I ordered 1,000 bees for my hive and I counted and they'd delivered 1,001 bees. So we're going back and forth about do I pay for the additional one or do I send him back and who would pay for shipping if I did, what's the marginal cost of the one extra, etc. 
  Finally he said, "Fuck it, that's a freebie." >
  
  This joke made me break out in hives. >
  
  Really stings, don’t it? >
  
  “In a perfect scenario, the queens could be fed a cocktail within a queen candy – the soft, pasty sugar that queen bees eat while in transit”
  Mmmm, queen candy. >
  
  She never goes anywhere without her Queen Candy. >
  
  If you introduce a queen to a hive, the hive will immediately try to kill her.  They need time to acclimate to her scent.
  Instead of just throwing her in and letting the hive have at her, you have to put her in a little cage and plug the hole with what they call queen candy.  The queen and her attendants eat their way out of the cage over the course of about a week.  Hopefully by that time the hive has accepted her. >
  
  Oh noes! The bees are gonna get the autisms!1!!
  Seriously though, this is awesome, bees need all the help they can get! Amazing technology. >
  
  Imagine all the vaccinated bees just picking up an easel and paints and painting tons of still life flowers. It's gonna be an epidemic. >
  
  Nah, they're bees. So they're gonna hyper-focus on the dancing, but they're all gonna be anxious about dancing in public, so they'll become wallflowers.  
  Hallmark, contact me for the movie rights to a better bee movie: Pollinating The Wallflowers: Finding Love Among The Blossoms. >
  
  They love line dancing >
  
  But where are we going to find enough tiny cowboy boots so the bees can have a hoedown? >
  
  Buzz barn western wear, you won't  bee-lieve the crazy deals you'll get. Have the whole hive buzzing and boot stomping. >
  
  Those honeybees are going to have a fantastic 5G signal!!!!
  /s >
  
  Nah, they'll give off 5B instead >
  
  This is just about the happiest news I've heard in a long time. >
  
  The bees are happy. >
  
  Bee Happy! >
  
  Companies are already preparing to sell non vaccinated bee honey at exaggerated prices. For the organic non GMO crowd. >
  
  I wonder if they will have a new customer base with the other side of the pendulum that are just against vaccinations now. >
  
  Could we see a vaccination needle for honeybees? Ha ha, now you're gonna know how it feels! >
  
  As a beekeeper I’m starting a business.  $10 to vaccinate a bee. >
  
  Hello yes I would like to get my bees vaccinated.  
  Ok sir that will be $500,000 cash or card? >
  
  No, you pay me for the privilege of stinging one of my bees with a needle. >
  
  yeah that's a huge market just look at the top rated comment >
  
  Domesticated bees are a lot like any other commercial livestock. Their genetics have been over manipulated, making them more susceptible to diseases and parasites. Most articles about bees are about commercial bee hives and not wild bees. Wild bees tend to have more diversity, so the verona mites aren't as big of a problem as they are for bees that have been bred specifically for their docility and honey production. >
  
  This vaccine doesn’t help with varroa mites…which sucks. I can’t say I’ve worried about foulbrood in my apiary. >
  
  Hard to vaccinate for parasites. >
  
  Ah now my half-bee Eric can be safe from Covid! >
  
  
  The vaccine, which will initially be available to commercial beekeepers, aims to curb foulbrood, a serious disease caused by the bacterium Paenibacillus larvae that can weaken and kill hives.
  
  Foulbrood is an awesome name. Like something out of a video game where you need to collect a secret item to remove the Foulbrood and get to the next level or some shit. >
  
  Anyone here see the X-Files movie. >
  
  Was this the first movie? I don't recall bees being in the second movie. >
  
  They should wear masks and stay 1.5cm apart until the vaccine rollout. >
  
  The Verroa mite is killing our bees. >
  
  I’ve never had a problem with foulbrood. Varroa yes >
  
  Beekeeper checking in - American foulbrood is not as prevalent as this article implies.  It is actually 4th or 5th on the list of issues for the honeybee. >
  
  What is the number #1 issue? >
  
  Varroa mites >
  
  so I can get vaccinated against honey bees? does this mean I can't get stung? /s >
  
  Yep. Knock yourself out Pooh Bearing. >
  
  Ok. I have no pants and just a shirt on. Now what? >
  
  Go to the nearest beehive and go hog wild. >
  
  Not sure why you're bringing pigs into this - Pooh's a bear. >
  
  I’m a hog. Sup? >
  
  Can’t wait to hear how it’s going to taint the honey and used as mind control . >
  
  Look what you did OP, all these bee vaccine jokes, it is like Reddit is a hive mind. >
  
  I can hear the grumble of anti vaxxers in the distance. Waiting to find any reason or correlation that cements their hatred on vaccines. >
  
  Vaccines made polio a thing of the past! I miss the good old days. Nobody had to walk if they didn’t want to >
  
  My aunt is forever angry at my grandmother for getting her the polio shot. She wishes she could have just “gotten polio and recovered to be stronger”, and blames her numerous health problems on being a “human Guinea pig for an experimental poison”.
  Some people are just proudly stupid and evil. >
  
  The conspiracy subs are already going nuts about this.
  It's not ALL vaccines that are evil. They've doubled-down on being incapable of nuance. >
  
  Not all vaccines are evil- just the ones that make you gay, or value an education! >
  
  This is good news, no doubt. Foulbrood means you have to burn all of your hive equipment. 
  The issue that causes most hives to collapse are mites - aptly named varroa destructor. They are becoming resistant to most common treatments, and the ones that they aren’t resistant to (yet) can be expensive, like oxalic acid vaporization. They also spread from hive to hive, so if you have a lazy keeper who doesn’t do mite tests or treat, they’re just endangering more hives. Which is foolish. The treatments and prevention are all great examples of integrated pest management in agriculture. >
  
  When do the bees start blocking highways for their Buzzing convoy. >
  
  So what's all the ~buzz~ about this vaccine? >
  
  First is was the humans now, Bill Gates is coming for the BEES!! >
  
  Is P.E.T.A. anti-vax or pro-vax?   Have the bees weighed in?   What is the efficacy level in the population?  Are there any side effects?   Is Pfizer involved?   So many questions! >
  
  PETA does only one thing, the most ridiculous lawsuits they can imagine to drum up attention. Practically invented click bait. 
  So obviously they will be suing the USG on behalf of the bees, who were not asked consent for this vaccine. >
  
  Does this effectively mean that bees will get free healthcare but ordinary human Americans won’t?