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Apples and pears at risk due to dramatic decline.....

dailymail.co.uk — British apples and pears are under threat because of a dramatic decline in honeybee numbers, experts have warned.The bee population in Britain has fallen by a third over the past year alone due to bad weather, insecticides and soaring numbers of parasitic mites.

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  • palehorse864, on 09/05/2008, -4/+39Well, bad time to invest in Apple stock it seems. Whoever this pear company is though, I've never heard of them.
  • Webnower, on 09/05/2008, -3/+13Orange you glad they didn't say banana?
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  • DCstewieG, on 09/05/2008, -0/+8All the goddam apples in my front yard and the goddam pears in my back yard beg to differ. Stupid fruit trees!! Who plants these in a yard? Gah!!
  • niradg, on 09/05/2008, -0/+8British apples and pears? Upstairs?
  • unitedkronos, on 09/05/2008, -0/+7It's a shame all the bees are disappearing and not all the bloody wasps instead.
  • theCreator79, on 09/05/2008, -2/+8Don't worry, Steve Jobs will save Apple again!
  • kingofinternet, on 09/05/2008, -0/+6shut up, you *****

    maybe it's not on the front page because the premise of that story is absurd. what are you, blaming obama for crime? you might as well blame community organizers in colorado for forest fires.
  • GlitchEnzo, on 09/05/2008, -0/+6NOOO! Think of the cider! Mmmm, delicious cider.
  • Iztikeit, on 09/05/2008, -0/+6I think it has more to do with the fact they pollinate a great percentage of the worlds food supply.

    But, you could be totally clueless and chalk it up as their honey supply.....
  • inactive, on 09/05/2008, -0/+5That's why they invented copy/paste
  • inactive, on 09/05/2008, -0/+5I'm gonna go up the apple and pears to bed.
  • Greenergrass, on 09/06/2008, -0/+3Yes the law of nature is destabilized. Same in France, it is serious.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_Collapse_Disor ...
  • skiboy352001, on 09/05/2008, -0/+3Those traps are to detect the presence of Africanized honey bees. This slight loss is minor in comparison to the fungal devastation the bee colonies are experiencing.
  • Gogogo111, on 09/05/2008, -0/+3Ba dum shhh
  • unitedkronos, on 09/05/2008, -1/+4It's a repeat of the same situation that wiped out all of the unicorns thousands of years ago.
  • jcaino, on 09/05/2008, -0/+3Someone who likes fruit? You know you can eat them, right?
  • suckanucka, on 09/05/2008, -1/+3"WTF?"
  • waydee, on 09/05/2008, -0/+2No it is true to an extent, the odd weather over the past 8-10 years is having noticeable effects on insects and, as I've noticed especially, pond life. The milder winters are screwing with their sense of when to come out and get the job done, in simple terms.
  • W00DR0W, on 09/05/2008, -0/+2Obviously the solution is to rain down insecticides to kill the parasitic mites.
  • edwartica, on 09/06/2008, -0/+2You need to seek medical attention, as over exposure to memes can be fatal!
  • SuicideMouse, on 09/05/2008, -0/+2I don't believe it has anything to do with our consumption of honey...
    It's about lack of pollination as far as I'm aware.

    Anyways, not my words but like I said, they stick with me.
    It is believed by some that Albert Einstein said it, but I haven't found any proof of that, so I don't just slap his name on there. I leave it blank.
  • doublefelix, on 09/06/2008, -0/+2According to this article the British apparently know what causes Colony Colapse Disorder.
  • andrewtheart, on 09/06/2008, -0/+2I'll be fine, and most people will be fine - Who eats fruit anymore, anyway? Personally, my Cheetos and Twinkie reserves should tide me over any food crisis.
  • PpuLATIONLiquid, on 09/06/2008, -0/+1heeeeeey, you know what is primarily responsible for killing bees? Don't blame temperature changes (for now.)

    It's the synthetic carcinogenic ***** humans spray on plants to keep bugs away, and the similar synthetic ***** we put in the soil to increase yields that, in force with the monoculture, makes the pesticides necessary. Chemical agriculture is gonna kill (ruin immune system and make them susceptible to diseases and parasites) the queen beez! And we're gonna have to eat a whole lot of tasteless ***** if there's no fruit (assuming you survive the initial environmental catastrophe of bees failing to pollinate most fruiting plants.)

    Hopefully it won't come to that...if your gonna worry, use that energy finding places to buy food that do not come from this unnatural machine that could end most of us.

    The thing that is Biden/DuPont; now that is something to be worried about. I wonder what Obama's position on the dying bees is...

  • sklter84, on 09/06/2008, -1/+2Humans didn't cause it so not our problem.
  • Eisim, on 09/06/2008, -0/+1helped you. -1
  • SuicideMouse, on 09/05/2008, -2/+3“If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.”

    I can't speak for how true those words are but I can say this, the words creep lazily around in the back of my mind and have been all summer as I sit outside and wonder about the bees, where are those summer buzzes, where are we headed now, what have we done?
  • deltaandroid, on 09/05/2008, -1/+2I beleive that they are a member of the rose family and rely more heavily on pollination than other fruits for means of reproduction, I could be wrong however.
  • savethejets, on 09/05/2008, -3/+4In other news Puppy Dogs and Rainbows were also affected.
  • mhw1986, on 09/06/2008, -0/+1waste of some really fresh fruit. I wish I had a fruit tree... or a yard.
  • miamistu, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1Not just you - I thought it was gonna be an article about how well Stannah Stairlifts are doing.
  • mhw1986, on 09/06/2008, -0/+1the point is that if the bees die, we lose yet another valuable source of food. Great Britain has very few crops that it is capable of growing. If this trend continues, bees and humans and many other animals will be screwed. The ocean ecosystems are taking the hardest hit right now
  • UniqueJewelry, on 09/07/2008, -0/+1The bees seem to be disappearing ... honey production is way down in most parts of Europe and here in Turkey as well...
  • AlienMushroom, on 09/05/2008, -1/+2Send some iBee, quick!
  • SitPoMk, on 09/05/2008, -3/+4Hopefully I'm not the only one that started reading the title thinking it was about Apple the company and then completely turned off realizing it was about fruit
  • demosthenes247, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1Is it The Happening yet?
  • Import98, on 09/06/2008, -0/+1http://sweetpeavine.wordpress.com/2007/04/18/peas- ...

    Uses the same quote and adds a little bit more information on what bees are good for.
  • jeeky, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1I'm sure plenty of people get turned on by Apple on Digg.
  • ChileanGoD, on 09/06/2008, -0/+1Ohh... poor apples and pears. Poor them... while no one gives a flying ***** about the bees that are dying.
  • kayjay, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1ok, this is serious.......
  • SuicideMouse, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1Really wasn't expecting people to take this so literally, it's just one sign of decreased pollination, which might not even end society, who knows, but I believe the quote fit here.
  • Iztikeit, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1I for one welcome our foodless future.
  • RIPtechtv, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1Living in So Cal and in an area where there are a lot of bees I have noticed in the past 10 years or so a lot less bees around the area ^_^.
  • Iztikeit, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1I hope you are, because food should be higher on your priority list than some sleazebag corporation.
  • atgmac, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1Do other countries not produce apples?
  • atgmac, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1Oh god, this is the third time I've seen this today.
  • santaliqueur, on 09/05/2008, -1/+2He giggled at the hardon he obtained while typing *****.
  • kenchie, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1I'm really crapping myself about this
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