Live by the sting....
Posted on 07/29/2015 9:10:45 AM PDT by rktman
Fear often trumps facts in media coverage. The past several years of worries about dying colonies of bees was certainly no exception, but The Washington Post recently supplied some much-needed sting to the honeybee situation.
News media scare stories about bee deaths and the label that came to describe the occurrence -- Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) -- saturated the news. Magazines, broadcast networks and left-wing websites blamed bee deaths on a host of factors, including cell phones, pesticides, mites and fungi. Oh, and global warming, of course.
Hype was rampant.
Time magazine warned of “Beepocalypse” in 2013, claiming the “economic and environmental damage could be immense.” In that story Time’s resident climate alarmist Bryan Walsh cautioned that if CCD continued it could there could be “dire” consequences -- “even for our ability to feed ourselves.” NBC referred to the die-offs as almost a “natural disaster” and ABC worried that it could cause ice cream to “disappear.”
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
The beekeepers in our area lost their hives two years ago. Since then we’ve noticed very few honeybees. This summer we’ve noticed a few more, but not like when I was a kid. Playing outside and barefoot, we were always trying (poorly) to avoid stepping on them. My kids don’t even watch where they step and have never (knock on wood lol) been stung. I’ve planted a lot more bee attractors, too. They love my purple cone flowers.
But what about the mead?! Oh, the huge manatee!
Live by the sting....
Yeah...here's his picture.
I have a tupelo gum tree in my back yard. One day I was outside cleaning my grill, and the sound of bees buzzing around that tree was unnerving. It only has these little tiny green buds for flowers. I saw literally hundreds of bees buzzing around that tree. I would say thousands, but I don’t want to exaggerate. But it was the noise they made that was amazing.
A lawn pleasing to the goal of the perfect lawn, is a desert to bees. We need more natural areas in urban and suburban regions. Bees need a constant supply of nectar and pollen. Especially pollen which is the bread they eat and feed the young. One type of plant or food source is not good. They need hundreds of diverse flora, blooming at all times of the growing year. ie, April thru October.
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Did you all know bees will work only one type of plant or tree at a time? Whatever is the most generous plant in bloom at the moment gets the bee's attention. Natural selection at it's finest.
The lack of an emergency was explained in the third season of “Elementary.” After all, Sherlock Holmes is an apiarist.
LOL!
Just this morning, on the local weather report, they have cameras all around the area to show the weather at different locales. One they showed had a huge wasp on the lens!...............
You may already be aware of this, but if you have swarming bees, finding the hive isn't exactly a good idea unless you're suited. They're queenless and probably not in a very good mood.
And here I thought he was an Anglican..................
The only hive loss I was seeing these past couple years were keepers that did not leave enough honey behind during these bitterly cold winters up here in the north east. I have two hives going strong and caught a swarm about two months ago that from the looks of things I either got the queen or they produced a new one. Either way, it’s been six plus weeks and I have new brood and almost ready for a super.
This is true. We keep bees and the price for essentials is going up.
Got 26 pounds of clover honey yesterday, though ...
Ah, enlightenment!
Good one. But I’m afraid there isn’t anything that he worships besides himself.
Cocaine, maybe............................
If there has been a real on decline in wild pollinators on which a lot of crop production is reliant, shouldn’t there have been a corresponding decline in crop production?
Which is more or less the point of “Elementary.”
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/flow-hive-honey-on-tap-directly-from-your-beehive
Have you seen the above? I got in early on a kickstarter for it and mine should be arriving in November for use next year.
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