Einstein was right - honey bee collapse threatens global food security

Telegraph (UK) ^ | 8:30PM GMT 06 Feb 2011 | By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor

[driftdiver]

LOL Honey Bees aren’t weeds. I guess you won’t know what you’re talking about.

[org.whodat]

Fine you have proved that we do not need to give anymore welfare checks to people growing corn and people making corn liquor.

[Wonder Warthog]

"LOL Honey Bees aren’t weeds. I guess you won’t know what you’re talking about."

No, they're not. But they have a similar short life-spans, and hence similar evolutionary rates. And yes, Virginia, I "do" know what I'm talking about. Try again.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Fine you have proved that we do not need to give anymore welfare checks to people growing corn and people making corn liquor."

I much prefer to give it to US citizens producing useful products for the US economy, and keeping those dollars IN the US economy than send those same dollars to the Mideast oil countries, most of whose people want to kill us. Why do you want to subsidize the Islamists???

You DO realize that it is Saudi money behind the propaganda push against ethanol fuel use???

[Onelifetogive]

They’re in my refrigerator right now awaiting the time to put them out.

I hope they are not sleeping with their little legs straight up like Jim's horse on Taxi...

[org.whodat]

ROFLOL, sell the crap without forcing people to buy because I don’t want are need it.

[org.whodat]

Actual thing killing honey bees, was a bee MIT, treatable with termicin. Look up bee MIT, my brother keeps bee’s, I have a swarm in a hollow tree have been trying to give them away for two years.

[BradyLS]

There’s a kind of hornet in Japan called the “swallow hornet” (due to it’s size—it’s as big as your thumb) that can wipe out a bee colony with just a few of them. The bees’ only defense is to swarm a hornet in a ball so that the internal body temp of the hornet rises until cooks to death. In the meantime, it can kill a bunch of bees.

I’ve seen a “bee ball” once. It’s just what it sounds like: a little, ping-pong ball-size mass of buzzing bees.

[Pelham]

Most ethanol crops are wind pollinated.
Here’s a list of bee pollinated crops:

http://tinyurl.com/nxy4qg

[Puckster]

"The Theory was wrong but it was a step toward our current ideas on plate tectonics." Click Here "Interestingly, today's pole and the two ancient poles lie in a straight line equidistant from the planet's biggest feature, the Tharsis rise, a bulge just north of the equator that contains Mars' most recent volcanic vent, Olympus Mons." These ancient poles lie near the equator of Mars today. There is very little dispute that Mars was subjected to a crustal displacement. I believe (qualification) that resistance to this theory occurring on earth is due to the implications it would have on numerous scientific disciplines. There is much evidence in solidified lava flows with magnetic markers showing orientations that are at times 90 degrees off from the magnetic poles that can't be explained by a magnetic reversal (geologically slow) due to the short solidification time of lava flows.

[Puckster]

"The Theory was wrong but it was a step toward our current ideas on plate tectonics." Click Here "Interestingly, today's pole and the two ancient poles lie in a straight line equidistant from the planet's biggest feature, the Tharsis rise, a bulge just north of the equator that contains Mars' most recent volcanic vent, Olympus Mons." These ancient poles lie near the equator of Mars today. There is very little dispute that Mars was subjected to a crustal displacement. I believe (qualification) that resistance to this theory occurring on earth is due to the implications it would have on numerous scientific disciplines. There is much evidence in solidified lava flows with magnetic markers showing orientations that are at times 90 degrees off from the magnetic poles that can't be explained by a magnetic reversal (geologically slow) due to the short solidification time of lava flows.

[1010RD]

free trade is managed carelessly

That's really funny.

[1010RD]

You make too much sense. You’ll be in the first class at America’s Re-Education Camps.

I’ll see you there. ;-]

[Wonder Warthog]

"ROFLOL, sell the crap without forcing people to buy because I don’t want are need it."

NO crap. Why do you want to subsidize Islamists, because that is precisely what not developing alternate fuels does.

"Actual thing killing honey bees, was a bee MIT, treatable with termicin."

I assume you mean "bee MITE". Might I suggest some remedial classes in grammar and spelling.

[org.whodat]

Try using a droid, meat head, and you can take your ethanol and your corn welfare and stick it where the sun don't shine. And yes every-time I type droid, the auto spell changes it to druid.

[org.whodat]

And yes it changes mite to MIT, all. Caps because somebody thinks that is the schools name.

[txhurl]

I wish there was something we could do about the hornets. A way to trap them: do they fly higher than bees? In more breeze?

[The Comedian]

Killer'd-bees ping.

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Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.

[Quix]

The wasp traps that Lowe’s carries work quite well.

[txhurl]

But don’t attract bees?