Someone needs to ask this guy... I think he's been grinding them up into personal care products.
Posted on 10/08/2007 8:28:16 AM PDT by decimon
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Looking high and low, Robbin Thorp can no longer find a species of bumblebee that just five years ago was plentiful in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon.
Thorp, an emeritus professor of entomology from the University of California at Davis, found one solitary worker last year along a remote mountain trail in the Siskiyou Mountains, but hasn't been able to locate any this year.
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Two bee, ore knot two bee. That is the qwestion...............
Apparently even the bees are realizing that California has problems. I don’t blame them for leaving. They found one worker bee and are now trying to figure out how to tax him to support the rest of the state.
“So long and thanks for all the pollen!”
I live in Southern California, and years ago, they began spraying malathion (sp?), to kill the medflys. Anyway, right after that, all the bees and butterflies (all the wimpier creatures) started dying, and the only things you see anymore are wasps, hornets, big huge scary armoured, primitive things. It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to see what happened. They said it would only kill the medflys, but I always thought- how can it do that? Apparently, something went wrong and just nuked all the little critters, except for the Godzilla bugs.
Maybe the rest went on welfare ...
smart bee’s,states to liberal for them.
They can’t stand the Nasonex commercial and are committing suicide in droves?
A little Douglas Addams! Thanks for the smile.
I guess they all came to my backyard! Plenty of them here in Missouri.
Plenty here in Wisconsin, as well.
But, you know, only the Left Coast is important.
A web search indicates that malathion is highly toxic to bees.
If they are bumblebees and not carpenter bees.
Mind your own beesness!!
I thought it said Hucklebee disappeared .
whew!
They were all Mexican bumble-bees. They were afraid they were going to get deported and went home. < /sarcasm>
Either because I’m not wearing my contacts or because I didn’t get enough coffee, I read the title as “Following Huckabee disappearance...”
I would comment as to what the cause is but it would get this thread banned.
Believe it or not, I’ve been encouraging the carpenter bees on our little ranch. Every piece of wood I put out is treated and painted, so I haven’t had a problem with them hurting my structures. But I HAVE had a problem getting my garden pollenated the last couple of year, so I need them around.
They’re excellent for fruit pollenation. My honeybees haven’t showed up for the last couple of years, and it shows - my tomatoes and peppers have done dismally, but my fruit production has been acceptable. So I’m encouraging my carpenter bees to nest in some old cedar fenceposts I salvaged from my neighbor, and now I have a “wood bee” bee farm.
I also have a healthy population of hummingbirds, so that’s fun too! They like to pollinate my okra...
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