death of bees - death of us
 

Bees in the usa and uk are dying out.

this could mean end of food.

soon we could run out of food.

You just watched a documentary, didn't you?

probably "Bee Movie" - yeah

Hehe I also saw the documentary... we're pretty much fucked if they die

if thats true, then this is a wake up call to all of us

I like food.

um ok thanks for informing us,

Back to my regularly scheduled life :)

Nature always have "reserve" and in this case bumble bees are "reserve"

ya kinda crossing m fingers that something with step up to the plate so to speak and take over the massive job in this case ..or well y ait was nice knowing ya all .. yikkes ..

Please help the bees!

I?m hungry ?.

crap.. now I wont be able to sleep tonight

oh great.....no more food for us

Its obvious by the posts in this thread as to why we are in this situation. Most of us wont have to worry too much about it, but when you wake up and realize you care about what your kids will do, well thats a different story.

True, Bees are a very important "link" in the food chain. No Bees, No Polenization, No Polenization, no more Flowers/Fruits, If Vegetation dies, then animals dies... and so on ...

Pretty Scarry

well... its not like bees can't be raised and taken to crop fields to pollinate everything.. its being done right now. i seriously doubt there's going to be any catastrophic consequences of a temporary die off of bees

if anyone is experiencing a shortage of bees, please feel free to camp out in my back yard with whatever you need to catch and transport these little fuckers to your own yard.

I wish someone would tell the carpenter bees that are eating my house instead of the 1000's of trees in my yard that they are supposed to be dying.

they keep breeding..but the weird part is they just fly away and die

Scary shit.

I am more worried about stuff like this than Al Gore's messianic global warming fraud.

This is something we should be concerned about!!

i had sex with a bee once...

It made my cock sting!

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

bees arent dying out...only leaving the bee farms and heading to the 'burbs

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniont..._1n20bees.html

haha. Having the same problem here. Is there a good solution you know of?

Basically all I have been doing is squirting the holes full of poison to kill them, but by that time the damage is done.

Mono-culture is the problem.

There are still plenty of bees around, but simply not the kind that agriculture prefers to use... many farms depend heavily on artificial hives of honeybees bred specifically for agricultural pollenation purposes.

There are plenty of other bee species out there, such as as bumblebees, that exist in large numbers, but they take more effort to utilize.

Mono-culture tends to lead to trouble eventually because nature will often balance things out in a rapid, extreme way.

Ron

Nope, been doing that too :( It's weird, the holes they make on the logs (I live in a log cabin) are the perfectly formed holes. I spray those and thanks to some advice from a neighbor, fill them with a natural unpainted golf tee. But there's a place above the door on my screen porch where they go in lines and have been for years. Then there are the places I can't reach. I'm sitting here watching 3 of them from my office window that is 20+ feet in the air.

I have a friend who sits out during the spring with a tennis racquet and just swats at them.

Its the WILD bees they seem to be worried about.


All those Bee parties are killing them off.

I told them. They flipped me off. :Oh crap

bees tastes bad

BTW, if you have seasonal pollen allergies (and you live in the freaking sticks like I do) find someone who makes local raw honey and eat a tablespoon a day :)

This is a huge concern and truly nothing funny about it. I saw an article very recently where it appears the genetically mutated crops are causing many bees to literally have cancer in there bodies. I saw the autopsy of the inside of the thorax on them and the differences is literally balack and white.

However, and though this too is causing a problem in those areas of the world it seems to me the key to finding the problem is in the way the bees are disappearing. Does it seem odd to you that the bees leave the hive as normal and then simply do not make it back. Large numbers of them. Like they lose their sense of honing or direction capabilities. They are not finding them dead anywhere either. They are just gone. I bet it has something to do with energy waves or something in the air. Chemtrails?? Maybe cell phone tower emission?? or have you looked at HAARP?

Thats my 2 cents worth. And there is plenty of people out here as worried as you ... Trust me on that. Its called walking with our head out of our ass on the way through life. I prefer to see where I am going... its unbelievable to me how many people who don't though. To each his own I guess. Hell from my view point... the inside of an ass may be a better view these days!! Maybe they are the smart ones ey?

Bees also play a very important role in helping those of us with allergies.. The honey with pollen from the types of plants you're allergic to can help you build immunities..

I know a bee keeper in Nevada, it can be a very lucrative side business if done right...

They do that now. The bees die off within a couple weeks though.

I think it's a serious issue. Maybe it won't mean we all die off, but it could cause food shortages across the world. We are already seeing some shortages in parts of the U.S. of grain and other vegetables.

Wiki.

Honey bees are not native to the Americas, therefore their necessity as pollinators in the US is limited to strictly agricultural/ornamental uses, as no native plants require honey bee pollination, except where concentrated in monoculture situations—where the pollination need is so great at bloom time that pollinators must be concentrated beyond the capacity of native bees (with current technology).

They are responsible for pollination of approximately one third of the United States' crop species, including such species as almonds, peaches, soybeans, apples, pears, cherries, raspberries, blackberries, cranberries, watermelons, cantaloupes, cucumbers and strawberries. Many but not all of these plants can be (and often are) pollinated by other insects in small holdings in the U.S., including other kinds of bees, but typically not on a commercial scale. While some farmers of a few kinds of native crops do bring in honey bees to help pollinate, none specifically need them, and when honey bees are absent from a region, there is a presumption that native pollinators may reclaim the niche, typically being better adapted to serve those plants (assuming that the plants normally occur in that specific area).

However, even though on a per-individual basis, many other species are actually more efficient at pollinating, on the 30% of crop types where honey bees are used, most native pollinators cannot be mass-utilized as easily or as effectively as honey bees—in many instances they will not visit the plants at all. Beehives can be moved from crop to crop as needed, and the bees will visit many plants in large numbers, compensating via sheer numbers for what they lack in efficiency. The commercial viability of these crops is therefore strongly tied to the beekeeping industry.

Ironically, in some of the crops listed above, studies have shown that while the farmers pay for honeybee "pollination", in fact native pollinators do almost 100% of the work, the farmer's money being wasted. For example, cucurbits like cucumbers, melons, and squash are all pollinated within a few hours of sunrise by squash bees, before honeybees are even active for the day. Since female cucurbit flowers bloom days after the male ones, the cucurbit-loyal squash bees also are able to correctly deposit the pollen days later, while the honeybees may have dispersed most of the pollen to non-squash plants by then.

Cows don't need pollinating. Maybe this just means all the veggies and vegans are going to die off. *snicker*

Holy shit....... anyone know how to set up a beehive?

I wanna make one in my garden now.

My neihbour had one and it pissed me off but i think i better get one.

We can pollinate too, by hand, with Q-tips.

Save the Earth, plant a Bee.

Agent Smith: I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area.

There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague . . .

what do you think cows eat?

Even if we KNEW let's say cellphone towers were killing all the bees, and would eventually lead to our demise.. If that "eventual" is any more than, say, 5-10 years, nobody will care. We are way too selfish of a species (even with mass communication!) to refuse the dollars created by an industry, even if it means the money will be worthless to the next generation, because all they want is something to eat.

this thread calls for it:

http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/uploa...ky-falling.jpg

While I'd agree that more research is needed to figure out if we're severely impacting the viability of bees, in general (and, hell, if we're to blame, I'm all for moving to correct for it)... I do think that a lot of the trickle-down "we're all gonna die" cries are coming from doomsday alarmists, and aren't soundly based in science.

Isn't the earths magnetic fields changing? Maybe that's why the bee's can't navigate.

Finally a problem not caused by humans!

I think the whole Honey Bee thing is a Scam.

I got so many fucking Bee's where I live...
What I am reading is Pure Bullshit, the Bee's are not gone they are all at my fucking house.

Man I love how Foriegners fantasize about the fall of America.
Dieing Bee's? Destryong America? C-mon...

Please. You foriegners are seriously grasping at straws these days.

do you have any clue what one colony of bees is worth??? If we have to resort to raising bees. honey bees with blow oil right out of the fucking water as a resource worth fighting over. beekeeping is not as easy as it maybe seem or sound...

i don't honestly think there's any catastrohpic drop in bee populations. it is something to think about as a possibility yes. but i think they're really grabbing at straws with this one...

all the honey ..

Probably saw the trailer for this

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/thehappening/