Bees!
Posted on 05/22/2014 4:14:09 AM PDT by gusopol3
NEWARK, Del. - A lone honeybee, its wings wet and its mind likely muddled, crawled across a porch on Old Cooches Bridge Road yesterday, a seemingly safe haven amid the bee-pocalyspe all around.
Just 100 yards away, across the busy lanes of Interstate 95 near the University of Delaware, the scene along a northbound on-ramp resembled a tiny battlefield after a major conflict. Bees clung to a gnarled guardrail, barely moving, while others tried to fly between the raindrops, in and out of the many smashed, wooden hives spilled all over the small strip of grass.
A traffic sign warned passing motorists to keep their windows up to avoid "bee swarms."
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Somehow the loss of all these honey (worker) bees is a metaphor for the workers in the USA. We are losing the hives.
Unfortunately, the social insect model seems to be the driving force of political elitism in this country. Just so long as the queen at the center of the hive is cared for, everything will be ok.
> the 2007 Freightliner tractor-trailer driven by Adolfo Guerro, 55, of Miami, overturned as it tried to negotiate the I-95 on-ramp from Delaware Route 896 northbound.
Yet somehow thousands of other truck drivers manage to negotiate the same on-ramp without flipping their rigs over. I wonder if Adolfo is a legal citizen? He owns this one.
I saw a truck carrying hive turn over there were a lot of dead bees on windshields of passing cars.
I live about 10 minutes from there, and have used that ramp many times. Hundreds of trucks use the ramp daily. There's nothing difficult or treacherous about it
The bees were headed for the blueberry fields here in Maine. Our country’s large scale model agriculture requires moving bees around the country.
The bees are dying at rates that are not sustainable for the industry. The stress, the insecticides,and the viruses are killing off hives faster than they can be replaced.
Here is a trailer for one of many documentaries about the issue;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLi12sQpdzQ
Bees!
Unrelated story, but it’s true! My local bee keeper has about 75 hives (we’re in the boonies). He normally doesn’t need a bee suit as he’s been doing this since childhood. His dad and grandpa were also bee keepers. A while back someone came to help him extract the honey and wore a white bee suit. For whatever reason the bees attacked the guy in the bee suit but left my neighbor alone.
After that for the rest of the season any time someone pulled up in a white car to buy honey the bees attacked the car! Crazy but true. Bees are the coolest insect. One day I’ll have my own hives I hope.....
I saw these signs last evening. I thought bees didn’t sting when they are swarming.
I am having to go out to my squash plants with a small craft paintbrush and pollinate the flowers. It works really well. It just a small garden though.
there’s a difference between swarming and being ejected from their hive. These bees were likely quite angry.
I hate wasps. Yellow jackets love to sting.
Up here in Maine there is ‘Pumkin sex’
Yeah... my wife makes fun of me when I do pollination by hand. She shouts out the window the old seventies porn music : “bow chicka bow bow”
Yeah... my wife makes fun of me when I do pollination by hand. She shouts out the window the old seventies porn music : “bow chicka bow bow”
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