It’s BACK!
the rage in the early 70’s was the disappearance of the honey bee.
I thought they were all gone already.
cold weather = bees go inactive
Apparently they have identified the cause of the honey-bee colony collapse, “a one-two, pathogenic punch from a virus and two species of fungus,” and are working on a remedy.
http://planetsave.com/2010/10/09/mystery-of-honey-bee-colony-collapse-solved/
“Rabobank said US bee colonies were shrinking even before CCD struck because cheap imports of Asian honey had undercut US hives. Note the parallel with the demise of the US rare earth metals industry, put out of business when China flooded the world with cheaper supplies in the 1990s. This is what happens when free trade is managed carelessly”
Has the homosexual lifestyle now spread to bees?
All I see anymore is those damn carpenter bees that bore holes in my woodwork.
Wasps are highly underrated.....as are moths, bumble bees and butterflies.
Honey bees don’t have a monopoly; their territory is limited to a few miles from the hive(s) while many other insects are going about their business.
So poor, stupid, non-rational, non-analytical, uncreative, un-self-willed, un-learned, unaccomplished, unmotivated MAN will not find, produce, implement any INVENTIONS to account for honey bee loses, should it become necessary. /sarc
MAN will just shake his fist in anger at G-d and walk dejectedly into extinction. /sarc
Somehow, without knowing exactly how, I think not.
Except he never said that. Like the article the quote is hogwash.
That globull warming is fizzling so we are inundated with the extinction catastrophes again... The Libturds are simply shifting lies and moving to undermine freedom in any way they can.
Honey bees do not pollinate maize - good old Iowa corn, to those of you who are not botanists.
Yet the American corn crop, while much increased, is also not getting into the food chain. It is being diverted into the manufacture of ethanol, a rather finicky motor fuel, that is both less energy-dense than petroleum fractions commonly used for fuel, and causes its own set of problems in the fuel blends in which it is dispensed.
Now, there is a HUGE source of ethanol available, but unfortuantely, it comes from a foreign source, Brazil, and the tariffs raised against its import to the US largely prohibit its use for fuel blending here.
What America does best, and should be allowed to continue to do - our agricultural productivity has in years past, largely outstripped most of the rest of the world. But this productivity has NOT been harnessed in the most effective manner, which is to package and offer it for export to those regions in which the demand far outstrips the capability to produce foodstuffs locally.
First thing to do, is to divert all that corn now going into ethanol production back into the food chain, and rather than subsidize ethanol production in this country, import all our ethanol needs from Brazil or other regions where the cost of production is far less than the use of feedstocks in this country. Lift the tariff against that plentiful substance, and spread the proceeds from its commerce to the localities that can produce it economically.
The stark possibility of starvation that now faces much of the restless parts of the world, can still be averted, but it is an act of will that seems to be beyond the current regime that holds sway in this country. Much like FDR’s New Deal, they seem determined to lock up and make inaccessible in many ways, the productive potential of this nation. If anything, the New Deal probably deepened and extended the Great Depression far beyond its normal cycle, as there was NEVER a time throughout the Roosevelt years when the machinery of bureaucracy was ever dismantled. It was just shifted around because of political and popular pressure, but there was never a thought to returning the means of productivity to those who could best apply those assets.
Well, on my farm, some years there are more, some years there are not as many but I see no serious decline. Honey bees are not the only pollinators. For me, I would take a single bumblebee over a hundred honeybees for pollination purposes. Of course you don’t get honey but bumblebees are fabulous pollinators.
It’s a sting!
What a buzz kill!
they haven’t died off, they’re all vacationing at my B.O.L. in Northern AZ. seriously you can not leave any source of moisture around without them swarming to it. last year we were pouring concrete for Mrs Reardon’s outdoor kitchen and they were even flying inside the mixer. lost count of the # of times we got stung. we went back there last weekend for a get away and they’re already active.
There was talk some radio waves -cell phone towers disrupted the bees GPS and hives failed. We need a 100 million $ study and bo is just the man to pay for it.
We’ll just have to hire Mexicans to pollinate all of the crops that the bees don’t get to.
1) Bees do very little grain pollinating.
2) Food prices are rising in the US due more to devalued dollars and 30-40% more ag land being planted in corn for ethanol production with subsidized energy policies.
3) In the midwest, bee colonie mortality often hits 30-40% ranges during the frequent cold and long winters.
4) CCD is the latest horror rage among environazis. Yes, it’s a problem, but it’s one we (beekeepers) have been struggling with for close to two decades (CCD hit the press only 3 years back).
5) It’s the sky that is falling.