[mission9]

So the cause of Global warming is a celestial event, and Hoagland's got the bees to prove it...

[cripplecreek]

I’m not seeing a lot of honey bees but I am seeing a lot of our native bees.

[kjo]

Gotta be Bush’s fault.

[o_zarkman44]

My blackberry bush is full of blooms and the bees of all kinds are very actively pollinating. Should be a good crop.

Maybe bees prefer hollow trees instead of boxes?

Hmmmm.

I even heard a theory about microwave transmissions and cell phones chasing off the bees.

[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1785723/posts
Mysterious illness stings beekeepers

Note from thread:

“Imidacloprid was a partial nicotinic agonist, since it elicited only 36% of ACh-induced currents and competitively blocked 64% of the peak ACh-induced currents. GABA-induced currents were partially blocked when imidacloprid was coapplied and this block was independent upon activation of nAChRs. Our results identify the honeybee nAChR as a target of imidacloprid and an imidacloprid-induced inhibition of the insect GABA receptor.”

nAChR = nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

Nicotine enhances cognitive functions, such as learning, memory, and retention through activation of brain nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs).

The most common nicotinic receptors found in the brain are the low affinity a 7-nAChR and the high affinity a 4b2-nAChR. a 7.

***Imidacloprid, which is being sprayed as an insecticide, it is an agnostic. An agnostic is used to affect the addictive properties and some of the side-effects of nicotine.***

Hazards of imidacloprid seed coating - affects orientation flights, foraging bees
http://www.univ-tours.fr/irbi/UIEIS/Theses-DEA/Lefebvre-these.pdf

Also:

Effects of sub-lethal imidacloprid doses on the
homing rate and foraging activity of honey bees

Treated honey bees also showed anomalous
flying behaviour: they often fell in the grass and their
flight direction was not towards the hive. Treated bees
seemed to be disoriented, and that could be the cause of
their disappearance.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Is Art Bell keeping bees now?

[Sawdring]

A good article on how bees are used today. Traveling Bees

[CarrotAndStick]

Like I mentioned earlier...

If there are bees that are surviving this mystery, then that’s probably enough. It may be a slump now, but the ones which have survived (or have been “naturally selected”) are going to be the progenitors of the new colonies, and they will most probably be able to survive this onslaught.

Bees have been on earth for hundreds of millions of years. Methinks they’ve seen enough as a species, to be able to adapt to newer realities than they are given credit for.

[Boundless]

> Apiarists are flummoxed over the losses which are
> not being suffered by native, wild bees.

Note: “not being suffered by native, wild bees”

Conjecture: something in or on the crops is
wrecking the commercial hives.

Another thread speculated on GMO crops, esp.
those with pest-resistant mods.

Bees are insects, no?

[Paleo Conservative]

Perhaps the domesticated European honey bees are too inbred to defend agains some pathogens?

[gitmo]

Has anyone on this thread (other than mission9) actually read this article? The losses to apiarists is something I’m very interested in, but this article is wacko to the 4th dimension.

[gcruse]

“The after-life, magic, the Pyramids, aliens, time travel, invisibility, and pre-cognition all have hyper-dimensional explanations. And so it is with the missing bees.’

Why post such crap?

[RightWhale]

Hoagland has shuffled the commercial honeybee industry into solar system and global warming as well as his Egypt-NASA conspiracy. Most impressive.

[LibKill]

OK, I confess!

I ATE all those bees.

Fried. With fava beans and a nice Chianti.

[Viking2002]

Did anybody else find it ironic that, on this article's page, there was this ad:

Get Rid of Bees

Efficient Carpenter Bees Removal & Control Service. Call-678-493-7194

www.UrbanWildlifeControl.com

[Porterville]

Honey Bees are European... and we all know that all things european are retarded and suicidal... Let's exam prince charles and his british clowns subjects.

Let's exam the cowardice of france and spain... let's look at the lunatics in germany and the 8 foot tall mice of the netherlands. Consider the willing victims of the swedes and the fleeing moose humpers of norway.... The only thing good in western europe is that they have a few blond chicks left.

[Eastbound]

'Bees Survive Mars trek on Inter-galactic Highway 19.5,' according to Richard Hoagland, shown displaying recent Hubble image.

[mewzilla]

So it’s just “hot house bees” that are affected, not wild honey bees? If so, maybe because apiarists seem to depend on just a few species for their breeding stock? Less diversity, more risk?

[LambSlave]

I keep seeing these very large bees with two yellow bands on their rear body segment, flying like hummingbirds, with really long probiscus and reddish wings. Anyone know what these things are? Around here I’ve heard them called government bees... any ideas? I’ve wondered about them for years. There are lots of them around this year.

[xcamel]

FReepmail me to get on or off

Click on POGW graphic for full GW rundown

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Not politics - yet - but I have seen some of the strangest looking "bee like" creatures pollinating every flower and tree on my property....

[VxH]

[Simply, adjust the size of the honeycomb cell to be about one millimeter smaller. This will result in less honey, but it will save the hives]

Should be easy to design a study to validate this hypothesis.

Where’s the data, Mr. Hoagland?