washingtonpost.com — Air pollution interferes with the ability of bees and other insects to follow the scent of flowers to their source, undermining the essential process of pollination, a new study suggests. The findings may help unlock part of the mystery surrounding the current pollination crisis that is affecting a wide variety of crops.
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mikefromamericaMay 5, 2008
Bees should not be allowed to use cell phones in the first place. Problem solved.
pintomp3May 5, 2008
mind your own beesiness.
harrybauzoniaMay 5, 2008
I have a small apple orchard, and last year I put a couple of beehives at each end of it (four total).My apples are doing fine and I can eat honey right off the comb. I haven't had a die-off, and I do crazy things like use a cell phone and a gas-burning truck. Sometimes the temperature last summer got up into the 90's and 100's (shock) and they still didn't die. So much for "global warming", V8 engines, or phone calls killing bees.Instead of just bitching and fretting about bees dying off and blaming it on George Bush, perhaps some of you should get off your asses and do something about it. Buying a new car does very little, but it's easy to keep bees. They pretty much take care of themselves, and they live in a cheap box.
neozeedMay 5, 2008
Tell me why should I pay more tax's to have most of humanity culled? Oh what's that you've never heard of the Georgia guide stones? Yeah thats what I thought, get off the kool aid, and open your eyes.
neozeedMay 5, 2008
Careful, Al Gore & friends run strong today. CO2 is death to the plants, etc etc.
Closed AccountMay 5, 2008
Plugged in? Genocide? Dude, WTF are you smoking? Your posts make no sense and you seem to be replying to yourself. I was simply saying that cars and coal power plants put out way more s**t than just carbon dioxide, and that reducing those emissions, which are bad for us regardless of the CO2 issue, would hey, reduce the emissions of CO2 in the process, imagine that! I don't know where you got the idea that I was in favor of genocide, or that I didn't care about toxins that the navy dumps into the ocean.
saji79May 5, 2008
I don't see what the guidestones have to do with bees and air pollution. Try staying on topic.
jocareybradshawFeb 4, 2010
Two years ago, HUH?????