/technologies/industrial-automation-space/b/blog/posts/what-s-happening-to-the-worldwide-commercial-beesBeekeepers load up tractor trailers with bees to pollinate crops on a farm. (Image Credit: Wikimedia /Pollinator, CC-BY-2.5 ) Beyond the bee shipping to smaller bee keepers , there is a whole industry of commercial bee pollination of crops! Their condien-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/technologies/industrial-automation-space/b/blog/posts/what-s-happening-to-the-worldwide-commercial-beesFri, 02 Dec 2022 22:53:45 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:5aedc1cb-4c2a-45e9-b1f1-9960d188bc4cdougw0<p>Bees are being exploited in every way we can think of. We steal all their honey and wax, entrap them and drag them all over the place to unfamiliar territory and different plants and generally force them to work at a subsistence level, stranding many bees stressing them to their limits and exposing them to pesticides. They are amazingly resilient, but we certainly test that resilience.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=24876&AppID=141&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">