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- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+90Best news is that it is preventable/curable and it is cheap! Hooray for the honey bees!
- ChazHollywood, on 10/11/2007, -24/+89You mean it was nature and not my gas guzzling SUV? But they told me that is was Global Warming that was killing the little bees. I wish I hadn't traded in my Hummer for that Prius now...
- Neiby, on 10/11/2007, -8/+44Global warming and cell phones. I guess all those knees were jerking for nothing.
- Infantrydude, on 10/11/2007, -11/+37So will the alarmists admit they were wrong on this...........
Malthus....
Charles Dawson.... (OK cheap shot)
Rachel Carson.........
Paul Ehrlich....
Anti- Saccharine zealots......
Anti-Alar nuts........
Nope guess being an alarmist means never having to say you were wrong - vroom101, on 10/11/2007, -0/+20Here are the links to the Reuters article, "Asian parasite killing Western bees: scientist"
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL1826459120070718?sp=true -- on one page
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL1826459120070718 - MrMysterious, on 10/11/2007, -8/+25It's like Pearl Harbor...except with bees.
- techweenie1, on 10/11/2007, -14/+31In other news, ManBearPig is still on the loose.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -6/+19Asian bee? Commie plot!
- austin63, on 10/11/2007, -4/+17And smokers, its always those dirty smokers.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14I just wish this ***** would mutate and start infecting hornets and mosquitoes instead. Their extinction wouldn't bother me one bit.
- CompIsMyRx, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13What jackpot? The cure costs $2.80 per year per hive. It's a cure so cheap even the most run-down beekeepers can afford it.
- Akaji, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11It doesn't. Possibly because you weren't there, and thus didn't know what it felt like. It's also possible that it's due to the fact that this isn't anything like it.
- killcops, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11i was totally just thinking last night that we hardly hear about the beepocalypse anymore
- Idugdigg, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9Another theory points a finger at mobile phone aerials, but Higes notes bees use the angle of the sun to navigate and not electromagnetic frequencies.
- wendelgee2, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8I think I've seen 4 bees this summer...it's been creepy. Glad to have them back swarming around garbage cans and stinging babies just like in the good old days.
- faskill, on 10/11/2007, -4/+9But.... but... global warming!
No, but seriously, what about all the stories that preceded this one dubbing "global warming" the culprit? Digg me down for not going with the status quo, but at least give me some sort of answer. - erhizad, on 10/11/2007, -8/+13We will see if Real Time on HBO acknowledges this. Since this was Bill's pet project all last year. Thank god, I didn't get rid of my SUV, and throw away my palm treo, and withdrew my petition to NASA to dim the sun to make sure the bees could find their way back!!
- wendelgee2, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6He's a political appointee, not a climatologist. What the hell does NASA have to do with climate anyway? Can we get some statements from the USGS?
- wendelgee2, on 10/11/2007, -4/+9Blaming colony collapse on global warming really was grasping at straws. People need to be more careful and measured when they claim causation unless they want their cause to look totally ridiculous.
- deadowl, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7Does anyone remember Buzz Buzz from Earthbound? He'll always be missed.
- austin63, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7Are you cereal?
- eggloaf, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6It makes me want to cry myself to sleep on my asian-made mattress, clutching my asian-made teddy bear to my asian-made shirt...
- azzageddi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Actually, they are more likely to fall. More bees = cheaper honey.
- allaboutdatiki, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5"Treatment for nosema ceranae is effective and cheap -- 1 euro (US$1.4) a hive twice a year -- but beekeepers first have to be convinced the parasite is the problem."
So what's the treatment, Kenneth? - paulzy, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7Maybe Ron Paul mentioned it on the subway.
- wendelgee2, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5That theory was debunked forever ago. The authors of the paper came out publicly to say "that's not what our paper was about, quit ***** citing us!"
- johnpaul191, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5well, they have not tested any bees in the United States yet, and the whole thing is technically still just a theory.
hopefully it is something easy to get past. unfortunately having to treat bee hives, as cheap as it may be, is not good for wild bee hives. that's still pretty important for people not living near farms or bee keepers. flowers, trees, backyard gardeners are generally visited by wild bees. - xGORDOx, on 10/11/2007, -6/+10Seriously? This isn't Global warming or George Bush's fault?
Well, why is this even news then?
How did this even get to the front page of Digg? - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+8Relax, we are kidding.
- KILLSTRUCTO, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3this was never a mystery, every bee keeper already knew that this was the problem. It was just the news stations blowing things out of proportion .
- icepick314, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4we did that with African honeybee and look what happened....
- beggersfunk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3This is a good news , man imagine without honeybees it would be catastrophic for the vegetation!
- SpaceMonkeyZero, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Slightly OT mini-rant: True Vegans would be against the exploitation of the honeybees for human needs! Where do they stand on a cure being found for honeybeekeepers to use? To them this would be like curing Mad Cow disease.
- xGORDOx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3So, this IS spam.
- VitriolAndAngst, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I'd heard the Cell Phone theory -- which sounded fishy to me.
The Global Warming theory, I didn't hear. Must be another straw man. I'm sure there was a Chewbacca theory as well.
In the future, nothing can be proven in science, because there will always and forever more, be the Chewbacca theory to make it sound ridiculous.
>> I thought it was either a disease (including parasites) or something being done to crops. Very happy that they've found the reason. We don't need anything else jeopardizing crops yields. - acid0426, on 10/11/2007, -11/+14***** Asia. Anyone notice how much ***** happens because of them? Avian bird flu, missile crises, poisoned toothpaste, bad tech support, need I go on?
- SpaceMonkeyZero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Asian Parasites Are Killing
Asian Parasite Is Killing - SpaceMonkeyZero, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4If you're so worried about CO2, please... stop breathing. Do your best to reduce YOUR CO2 output!
- VitriolAndAngst, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3I'd heard the Cell Phone theory -- which sounded fishy to me.
The Global Warming theory, I didn't hear. Must be another straw man. I'm sure there was a Chewbacca theory as well.
In the future, nothing can be proven in science, because there will always and forever more, be the Chewbacca theory to make it sound ridiculous. - Yage2006, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2At least we know now.
And knowing is half the battle . - DiamondIce, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2No *****, $2.80 a year for a cure, or $200 a year for a new package of bees. It's not a tough choice.
- ttravis84, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5*****... do research on what genetically modified pollen does to a bee's stomach lining. It abolishes their immune system thus leaving them prone to any infection. Albert Einstein was not lying when he said "If they bees dissapear from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years left to live".
- Gabberwok, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2What is it about genetic modification that would cause bee's to react poorly to plants? You know that we've been genetically modifying plants for 10,000 years now, right? The only difference is now we know what we're doing....
- fossilnews, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4I'll make that scientist a very large bet - to be paid off in 10 years + 1 day - that his prediction is wrong.
- pushmouse, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Hooray for the honey bee and us. Without the honey bee our many of our crops would be lost to. We kind of depend on them.
- karel747, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2...And using chemicals for-which we have no idea what their long term affects are. 10,000 years of artificially selection is completely natural...If there's any defect, it will slowly disappear from the gene pool. 100 years of using mystery chemicals to see which one works best it not natural, and unpredictable. (e.g., DDT affecting bird eggs). Who know what kinds of havoc pesticides and artificial fertalizers are causing to a plant's genome...as well as ours.
- blacklist, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2The news stations and sites like digg.
- queenstarsha, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2WHO blamed global warming? bill o'reilly? 'cause i didn't hear one person in my little liberal bubble blaming global warming.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Too many Asian jokes possible! Cannot execute! Kernal Panic!
- wendelgee2, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4What?
"By the 11th century, Europe had learned of Islamic astronomy. Around 1070 started the Renaissance of the 12th century, featuring an intellectual revitalization of Europe with strong philosophical and scientific roots, and increased appetite for the study of nature. By then, abundant records suggest that any doubts that Europeans may have had in earlier times in regard to the spherical shape of the Earth were generally eliminated." - Wikipedia.
Mind you, 11th century is well before we even had the word "science" or "scientist" in the English language (William Whewell coined the word in 1833.) It was the religious community that staunchly contended that the earth was flat despite all evidence to the contrary.
In conclusion, you're a ***** idiot. Do your homework next time. -
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