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The Beeeeeezzzzz are dying.

Why are all the bees dying?

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Hotdog

Hotdog

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The bees are dying

Don't worry, it's not a big deal. I wouldn't worry about nothing until Obama or Romney tell us to worry.

If it were a novel, people would criticize the plot for being too far-fetched – thriving colonies disappear overnight without leaving a trace, the bodies of the victims are never found. Only in this case, it’s not fiction: It’s what’s happening to fully a third of commercial beehives, over a million colonies every year. Seemingly healthy communities fly off never to return. The queen bee and mother of the hive is abandoned to starve and die.

Thousands of scientific sleuths have been on this case for the last 15 years trying to determine why our honey bees are disappearing in such alarming numbers. “This is the biggest general threat to our food supply” according to Kevin Hackett, the national program leader for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s bee and pollination program.
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Zombie Bees? Big Pharma at fault? Haha. Sounds like the conspiracy theorists are at it again.


State's first case of 'zombie bees' reported in Kent
The first confirmed case of "zombie bees" in Washington state has been found by a Kent beekeeper. Discovered in California in 2008, the bees are infected by a parasitic fly that causes the bees to lurch around erratically before dropping dead
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Thousands of scientific sleuths have been on this case for the last 15 years trying to determine why our honey bees are disappearing in such alarming numbers. “This is the biggest general threat to our food supply” according to Kevin Hackett, the national program leader for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s bee and pollination program.

Until recently, the evidence was inconclusive on the cause of the mysterious “colony collapse disorder” (CCD) that threatens the future of beekeeping worldwide. But three new studies point an accusing finger at a culprit that many have suspected all along, a class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids.

In the U.S. alone, these pesticides, produced primarily by the German chemical giant Bayer and known as “neonics” for short, coat a massive 142 million acres of corn, wheat, soy and cotton seeds. They are also a common ingredient in home gardening products.


Bees in southern Germany have been dying off by the millions.

Research published last month in theprestigious journal Science shows that neonics are absorbed by the plants’ vascular system and contaminate the pollen and nectar that bees encounter on their rounds. They are a nerve poison that disorient their insect victims and appear to damage the homing ability of bees, which may help to account for their mysterious failure to make it back to the hive.
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A few links


https://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64999.shtml

https://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019244585_zombees24m.html?prmid=4939

https:// m.washingtonpost.com/business/washington-states-first-zombie-bees-reported-parasite-causes-bees-to-fly-at-night-die/2012/09/24/fbcefa56-0677-11e2-9eea-333857f6a7bd_story.html

https://renegadehealth.com/blog/2012/09/24/4-reasons-the-bees-are-disappearing
 
It sounds funny but if the bee population dies off enough some plants that rely on them for pollination go extinct. That causes a ripple effect. This is more dangerous than it sounds.
 
Stoked said:
It sounds funny but if the bee population dies off enough some plants that rely on them for pollination go extinct. That causes a ripple effect. This is more dangerous than it sounds.
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I know how serious it is.
 
Stoked said:
How serious is it Mr. Nye?
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I don't know how serious the epidemic is, but I know how important bees are.

Without bees we wouldn't have food.

Albert Einstein said, when the bees all die, humans will all die shortly after.
 
Hack said:
I don't know how serious the epidemic is, but I know how important bees are.

Without bees we wouldn't have food.

Albert Einstein said, when the bees all die, humans will all die shortly after.
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Did he really?
 
https://johnbakersblog.co.uk/einsteins-bees/

Albert Einstein is supposed to have said:

“If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”

And he has been quoted widely and credited with the remark in National newspapers and, apparently, on thousands of blogs.

But Einstein, though he knew a lot, didn’t know anything about bees. There are many people still searching through Einstein texts, trying to discover if the quote is correct and from which lecture or publication it has been taken.

But he didn’t say it.

It’s just a rumour.


I've read other links to where it mentions how there are now writings or speeches to be found in which he said this. That said, I'm not sure if it makes it any less true. I would guess it isn't. I doubt our entire plant life depends on pollination from bees. Can anyone confirm or deny this?
 
Last time I read up on colony collapse, one of the options was to domesticate a different species of bee. That would take time and would initially be unproductive, but in the long run, we'd still have bees.
 
Women and children should look away!

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Yeah guys, this **** is serious.
 
Hack said:
We'll just build robot bees in the future.
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And then the robotic bees will build even better robotic bees and then there will be Human colony collapse disorder.

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Stoked said:
That pic is pimp. Robot bees are Denver Bronco fans. Who knew?!
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Not true. God sent them all to New Jersey with Tebow. Rex Ryan is waiting for a 3 game losing streak to let this controversy out of his bag of look at me now tricks.
 
franklin said:
Not true. God sent them all to New Jersey with Tebow. Rex Ryan is waiting for a 3 game losing streak to let this controversy out of his bag of look at me now tricks.
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That would explain the bees disappearance.
 
I chose the liberal commies. This is obviously their ploy to create more work for illegal migrant farm pollinating workers & keep the borders open forever.
 
franklin said:
I chose the liberal commies. This is obviously their ploy to create more work for illegal migrant farm pollinating workers & keep the borders open forever.
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Hmmm. That's interesting. I didn't know that immigrants were pollinating plants.

It could work I suppose. There are probably more Mexicans than bees.
 
Scat said:
The Zombie infection is spreading! Apparently, it's a parasite causing the problem...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...cefa56-0677-11e2-9eea-333857f6a7bd_story.html
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I wonder if this 'Colony Collapse Disorder' could be caused by the same GMO plants that are giving rats tumors in clinical studies.
Or how about the chemicals in High Fructose Corn Syrup laden products that are fed to them.

https://m.naturalnews.com/News/035610_honey_bees_pesticides_corn_syrup.html
 
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