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How Senescent Coconut Trees Become the Solution to Global Bee Colony Collapse

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Jul 18, 2025
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Why aging coconut palms could save both the world's beekeeping and poultry industries


Right now, as you're reading this, two silent catastrophes are unfolding that threaten the global food system.

In beehives around the world, 90% of colonies are infected with varroa mites that can collapse entire operations within 2-3 years.

Meanwhile, in poultry farms across Europe, 94% are battling red mites that can drain 5% of a hen's blood in a single night.

Both parasites have developed resistance to every chemical treatment available. They always do and always will. also, we have chickens drinking a solution which ends in C-I-D-E to eradicate a problem which is external to them the inefficiency of ignorance is astounding

Beekeepers are losing over a million colonies annually in the US alone. European poultry farmers face €360 million in losses each year, with some operations seeing 10% drops in egg production.

But what if I told you the solution has been sitting in plain sight for centuries, rotting in coconut groves across the tropics?

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