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Fears for crops as shock figures from America show scale of bee catastrophe
The Guardian ^
| 5/2/10
| Alison Benjamin
Posted on 05/04/2010 2:37:26 AM PDT by Daisyjane69
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To: KosmicKitty
To: LibLieSlayer
I remember my ex telling me how married guys in his outfit used to position themselves in front of microwave transmitters to become sterile.
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posted on
05/04/2010 7:53:18 AM PDT
by
Chickensoup
("A corrupt society has many laws" - Tacitus)
To: Scotsman will be Free
As I understand it the US is importing bees from Australia, where the CCD problem hasnt appeared yet.
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posted on
05/04/2010 7:57:51 AM PDT
by
Vanders9
To: dirtboy
They have found evidence of extensive ancient land management in the Amazon, so much for that being a pristine wilderness since time immemorial. The total area cultivated in modified "dark earth" soils (terra preta) is estimated to be the size of France.
Meanwhile, current estimates are that native American hunters were so efficient that there may have been no more than 5,000 grizzlies in all of North America. Even after the catastrophic zoonotic die-off, Lewis and Clark went 18 days in the Yellowstone basin without seeing a single megafauna species.
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posted on
05/04/2010 8:00:38 AM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
To: firebrand
How to Fix a Screen Door. Once you figure out what a spline is you're all set. Thank you. I know that it will eventually come down to me fixing the door :-) Of course, as soon as I start my husband will say "Hey, what are You doing that for, I said I would fix it"
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posted on
05/04/2010 8:03:11 AM PDT
by
KosmicKitty
(WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
To: spectre
Honey never spoils if stored in reasonable conditions. Archeologists have found honey from ancient times, simply reheated it to make it liquid again, and eaten it.
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posted on
05/04/2010 8:16:35 AM PDT
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: KosmicKitty
That was sort of the idea. : )
To: Mad Dawgg
How do you suppose that our crops are going to get polinated? Native bumble bees and miner bees can’t do it!
To: Brad from Tennessee
Because of competition from China.
To: James C. Bennett
Mark Levin played that Carlin clip on Earth Day. It’s one of the funniest bits I’ve ever heard him do. He really nailed the eco-freaks to the wall, didn’t he?
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posted on
05/04/2010 9:52:53 AM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: DCBryan1
Saw a piping virgin queen the other day after the swarm.Hey now, this is supposed to be a family-friendly site. :-)
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posted on
05/04/2010 11:49:03 AM PDT
by
zeugma
(Waco taught me everything I needed to know about the character of the U.S. Government.)
To: Daisyjane69
Obama’s fault.
Last I heard, it’s the cell phone towers that are confusing the bees. They can’t function normally.
To: upcountryhorseman
"How do you suppose that our crops are going to get polinated? Native bumble bees and miner bees cant do it!" Crops got pollinated before the honey be was brought here by the Europeans.
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posted on
05/04/2010 12:58:40 PM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)
To: AlexW
I was only referring to the supposition that RF is killing bees. I in no way would refer to any FReeper as a leftist. Sorry.
LLS
To: AlexW
Being light and bridging what I thought was a misunderstanding was my intent... I see you still do not understand my post. So be it. Have a nice day.
LLS
To: Chickensoup
In Alaska they stood in fron of the radar antennas to stay warm.
LLS
To: Chickensoup
Also, today there are RF exposure levels that must be met... and standing in front of an antenna at UHF is not the same thing as being exposed to RF energy at low levels... and the exposure drops rapidly as you seperate from the source.
LLS
To: Mad Dawgg
Early crops may have been poorly polinated, but for modern
orchard crops, caucasian bees are absolutely necessary.
To: Daisyjane69
As a former bee man, I still keep eye my out for working bees. Sunday afternoon I went to the disk golf course and saw a ten acre field covered with white clover. There were no bees.
When I had bees just a block or so away, they would have covered the field working the clover from daylight till dusk. There were no bees to harvest this abundance
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posted on
05/05/2010 8:33:14 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Ostracize Democrats. There can be no Democrat friends.)
To: Jimmy Valentine
Yes..... with the euro migration came the honey bees
The most popular race today is the Golden Italian followed by the smaller and darker Caucasian.
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posted on
05/05/2010 8:36:35 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Ostracize Democrats. There can be no Democrat friends.)
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