Is there any scam this "administration" ISN'T involved in?
Whutz the buzz about?
So while the VA slaughters our veterans, ISIS slaughters the Iraqi army, and a horde of Central Americans slaughter our economy, Obama has in the last week...
Banned Ugandans from entering America
Saved the bees
The administration is entering the Carter phase of clownery. What’s next, a slew of puppet show regulations?
Maybe they can hitch a ride with the kids from Central America.
Just think of all of the things the fascists will ban while pretending to save the bees.....
There is in fact a crisis. It’s been going on for a number of years now. I know people who have lost all their hives in one season. That said I think universities research labs can more efficiently determine cause and course of action better than government.
FTA: “that has alluded scientists”.
err...s/b “eluded”.
Other than that - we’ll be lucky to have any bees left after the zero admin “creates strategy to restore pollinator populations”. Everything he touches is a really expensive FLOP.
Great. With the government’s track record, bees will be extinct in 3 years!
Nice going Zero!!!
(Do I really need to tag this?)
Obama is gonna save the bees?
This will not go well for the bees.
Poor little guys might as well kiss their beehinds goodbye.
Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is a phenomenon in which worker bees from a European honey bee colony abruptly disappear. While such disappearances have occurred throughout the history of apiculture, and were known by various names (disappearing disease, spring dwindle, May disease, autumn collapse, and fall dwindle disease),[1] the syndrome was renamed colony collapse disorder in late 2006[2] in conjunction with a drastic rise in the number of disappearances of Western honeybee colonies in North America.[3] European beekeepers observed similar phenomena in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain,[4] and initial reports have also come in from Switzerland and Germany, albeit to a lesser degree[5] while the Northern Ireland Assembly received reports of a decline greater than 50%.[6]
Colony collapse is significant economically because many agricultural crops worldwide are pollinated by European honey bees. According to the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the worth of global crops with honeybee’s pollination was estimated to be close to $200 billion in 2005.[7] Shortages of bees in the US have increased the cost to farmers renting them for pollination services by up to 20%.[8]
The mechanisms of CCD and the reasons for its increasing prevalence remain unclear, but many possible causes have been proposed: pesticides, primarily neonicotinoids; infections with Varroa and Acarapis mites; malnutrition; various pathogens; genetic factors; immunodeficiencies; loss of habitat; changing beekeeping practices; or a combination of factors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_collapse_disorder
Imagine 2+ more years of this...or maybe I should say...imagine where we’ll be maybe a year from now....?
I can’t.
bump
"If you put the government in charge of the Sahara desert, there'll eventually be a shortage of sand." Milton Friedman
The bees are about to be wiped out.
Monsanto will be pleased.