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- cyberdork, on 10/12/2007, -4/+70Dude, there were already a couple of similar articles on the frontpage over the past weeks. The world knows, but they just don't seem to care. Funny, considering this:
"Since about one-third of the U.S. diet depends on pollination and most of that is performed by honeybees, this constitutes a serious problem, according to Jeff Pettis of the U.S. Agricultural Research Service." - foamweapons, on 10/12/2007, -9/+66The other articles were better too.
Corporate media doesn't want to report this story because after reading you have to think "something bad must have been introduced to the environment." Why are bees and other bugs treating the honey like poison? It's not just bees who abandon the hives, but other bugs that usually steal the honey.
The answer to "WHY" will obviously involve a large corporation. Any story that raises food issues, like why are they putting so many pesticides on crops or why are 40% of our corn crops Genetically Modified... might start making people question these things, and wonder if that's what is killing the bees. That's not a question corporate agriculture wants average people asking... that's why MSM avoids this story. - paulyras, on 10/12/2007, -2/+49I know where they all are. They're in my freaking front yard. I live in Minnesota, where 2 weeks ago it was literally freezing cold at mid day, and now they're everywhere. Not just me either. Everyone I speak to has been seeing WAY more bees than usual.
Digg me down if you will, but perhaps some sort of climate change issue causing them to move north. And no, I'm not an environmental nut. Just curious and surprised. - MackDiesel2010, on 10/12/2007, -7/+50Bees are *****. You can be standing there, trying not to provoke them, and they fly around you, all in front of your face, until you run away, and I looked back, and it was still after me, and I ran into a light pole! WTF did I do to deserve this!
- venom8599, on 10/12/2007, -2/+43It's the bee rapture. All the righteous bees have gone to heaven with Bee-Jesus.
- DarkXanthos, on 10/12/2007, -4/+41@lolcopter
"You act like we could do something about it..."
You're right. We're such a helpless species that hasn't been able to affect the world in any meaningful way thus far, why should we think we could start now? I give up. - booksoutloud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+37Children of Bees
Coming: fall 2008. - ebolaworld, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28Don't worry, the killer bees are coming to take their place.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+30Its just Stage One of their masterplan.
I for one welcome our new bee overlords. - 2oonhed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24So I DIDN"T see the other stories and am glad someone put this one up, (because I don't live on the internet OR on digg), and didn't see the other posts.
Neeways...insects & birds are our "coalmine canaries". If they are dying, or disappearing, or behaving wacky, it is very important to find out why before whatever is affecting the bees starts to affect us humans. - zephris, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26You know what's funny? You sneeze at the oil supply and it's price doubles. Practically destroy the bee population worldwide....no price increase for food (in general) OR honey (or even wax).
hmmm. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20
So long and thanks for all the fish. - crashflow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20"Thanks for the pollen!"
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22A bee is often like a human being who is in touch with their heart. If you hate them or disrespect them or want to harm them, even just in your thoughts, they might sense it...and might come after you.
You need to actually be honest and decent toward these fellow creatures. They can feel it, and you can't usually trick them.
They give us so much....and all they need is that we respect them as the dedicated workers they are. But if you f*ck with them, you will get stung. If you befriend them, they will even protect you from hornets....( I have had that happen)
Now hornets...ARE *****! They are like the neocon scum of the bee world.
(Don't tell them I said that.) - Shaman760, on 10/12/2007, -8/+25The bees are sick of Bush too.
- headcase, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20The bees have officially started Plan B. The bees know we suck. They also know that once we're gone, they will be the ones calling the shots. 20 years of bees on strike and our numbers will plummet, they will rebound and our survivors will be living in greenhouses using q-tips to pollinate crops. I wonder what will happen to all the animals though.
- lifeandtimes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15This is the best line in this article by far:
"One beekeeper alone lost 40,000 bees"
...that's not even the population of one hive of bees during peak summer activity. - tearor, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16 “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.” - Albert Einstein
- jonpotz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14All the bees are committing suicide in protest to Bush's "who gives a crap" attitude about the environment.
- unibomber999, on 10/12/2007, -14/+25@cyberdork
What exactly is anyone supposed to do about this? If the scientists are stumped, I'm sure as hell not going to come up with any good theories.
Although, I could always work on the good ol' digg, unsuported-conspiracy theory. Ooh, I've got one. It is an evil plot by Monsanto, who is trying to sell genetically modified seeds to farmers that don't need bee pollination!
someone help me out with the link to George Bush... - Wacer, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17@mike17032 "Yes, this is clearly the evil work of a large corp. They are the spawn of satan afterall. What have they ever done for us? Well other than give us huge amounts of cheap, safe, quality food (by far the safest humans have EVER had)."
Oh so that means salmonella tainted peanut butter, E. coli hamburgers just now recalled, Lettuce at Taco Johns, Spinach from California, and poisoned wheat gluten from China that killed 10,000+ animals don't count. These all happened this year and we are only in April. Why the hell is corporate America buying wheat gluten from China?!? So the big companies can save a buck.
If China's food products are as bad as all the other crap they make over there, then our food quality if gonna go to the *****.
People who support GM crops usually have something to do with the companies involved with it. - goodoldharris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9It's interesting that 1/3 of our "modern" agriculture is dependent on harnessing the activity of bees. If the problem shows anything, it's that humans are still as dependent on nature as ever and in ways most people don't have a clue. We need to put more resources into understanding and protecting it. Maybe this bee crisis will generate some awareness.
- Wartz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11I lol'ed
I know your pain - Homet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Yeah I have a hard time understanding the full extent of the problem because of asinine reporting like the quote above. How many bees are we really talking? Are food supplies at risk now or soon will they soon be? I've read elsewhere too that this isn't effecting organic bees. Has anyone done any extensive reporting/research into this aspect of the story.
I keep getting the feeling that I'm not being told the full story here at all. I can't trust the MSM with their obvious corporate bias, but at the same time I can't really trust sensationalist internet articles. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10The bee population is not practically destroyed.
And honey prices HAVE increased - Lane, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9GLOBAL WARMING!! ahh!
- Barnolde, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11BRBee.
- Moeface, on 10/12/2007, -11/+19To be honest I've already heard about these bees about 12 times.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Facts don't back up this theory. Like how it is more prevalent in the US, where cell towers are far less dense than it is in Europe.
- MrWh33l3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Sorry to shoot down your theory but I've used bt before and it is pretty safe. It only kills caterpillars and a few other bugs by affecting their digestive system. Basically they starve to death. The good thing about it though is it is a naturally occurring bacteria and it does not kill pollinators.
- slimnickyy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The honest Monsanto corporation said that genetically modified crops were safe and natural. Apparently natures little workers don't think so.
- rheaume, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I almost HOPE were *****. This piece of ***** world needs a violent kick in the ass or were doomed for real.
- M2Ys4U, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8You missed the "So long and "
- MrWh33l3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@wacer
I think most of our food ends up in the ***** anyways - AlexApetrei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7It's pretty true that bees are in touch with emotions. In a way they are like dogs, hang around you just for a laugh, if you hate them then they will react but if you politely tell them to go away, very often they do.
Bees are not *****, anything that can throw up honey is is all right by me. Note that honey tinted with human bile juice does not count. - Nerdculture, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Pesticides maybe??? We already know that all the chemicals we use for farming comes down the Mississippi river from upstream and kills off part of the sea life off the coast of Louisiana....
- tearor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6http://www.scq.ubc.ca/?p=771
I thought this was interesting
Bt corn has had a special gene inserted into its make-up.
This, incidentally, is a gene from the Bacillus.
Which, incidentally, is responsible for producing something known as a crystal delta-endotoxin.
Which, incidentally, is often shortened to cry.
Which, incidentally, has the power to kill insects that might otherwise make your corn look a little spotty.
Which, incidentally, is the same stuff that is commonly used as pesticide in organic farms. - 0crabby0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Marked as inaccurate
The bee you want for pollinating isn't honeybees, but squash bees.
http://www.fao.org/AG/AGP/AGPS/C-CAB/Castudies/pdf/1-002.pdf
The honeybee isn't from the US anyway, but from Europe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_honey_bee - supermanred, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7
Children of bees indeed, hopefully the neuro-toxins or genetically modified food doesn't affect us. I know we keep many vaults with virgin, untouched, unaltered seeds for every plant we eat...but Im not so sure we keep a vault filled with human beings that havent eaten non-genetically modified foods.
I can picture it now, US helicopters searching remote parts of the earth to find humans that have been eating naturally...most likely they would have names with clicks in it... in order to keep humanity alive.
Meanwhile, Norway makes a KILLING selling bees and many countries that have banned these neurotoxin pesticides and genetically modified foods are laughing at us here in the west. - TheSheepMafia, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7http://www.snopes.com/quotes/einstein/bees.asp
Since when was Einstein a biologist? - catalysis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4George Bush hates bees!
- wushu18t, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4there an area i walk through to and from school. there are flowers around that area. usually there are lots of bees dong their busy work. i was never scared of getting stung by one. i started reading the stories of the bees on digg. i was wondering how long it would take to come to phoenix,az. now, there just completely gone. kind of creeps me out.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Bii would like to play!
- M4tt3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Now I feel really bad for calling in the bug-me-nots to get rid of the 2 hives I've had in the past 10 years. I'm a bee murderer. :'(
- calvmari, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3KILLING ME WON'T BRING BACK YOUR GOD DAMNED HONEY!
- TheSheepMafia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's from The Hollow Men (1925) by T.S. Eliot.
- Sendss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I heard that the cause was that bee's aren't eating their own honey due to genetic modification of crops.
- VeryBoredNow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Didn't Einstein say something about when the bees die it will be 4 years till humans are gone too???
I will miss the bees. - valdo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Have all the bee keepers write a report of when they started to notice change.
Figure out, which areas were affected first.
Cross reference that information with weather changes, new chemicals, communication technologies, genetic crops, or anything that came about the time of first noted disappearances.
Figure out if this situation is true of low population density and technology areas (Mongolia, Nepal, Siberia, Alaska...)
How are the bees doing in Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii? - fantasticFlan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sounds like another Silent Spring.
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