[Slings and Arrows]

the Sunday night fire caused a large “whoosh,” singed the tree and killed the bees but no people were hurt.

Wuss.

[Darksheare]

It’s not my fault.

[LucyT]

SCIENCE — July 28, 2011 at 2:00 PM EDT
What’s Behind the Problem of Disappearing Bees?

“When the world learned five years ago that bees in America and Canada were dying in large numbers, and hives were becoming defunct, the agricultural community, beekeepers and the public became alarmed. Hives were deserted, the bees gone, presumably dead, honey production stopped, and the bee industry was crippled.

“The problem was called Colony Collapse Disorder or CCD, and it threatened California’s very profitable almond industry, which is dependent on bees to pollinate the trees that the nuts grow on.

“And not just almonds: 130 crops in California alone depend on honey bees.”

[snip].

“Researchers at universities around the country started looking into the problem; money was donated to target what was killing the bees. Stories appeared frequently about the scientific efforts to figure out what was causing CCD, and what might cure it. With all that attention, you’d think they would have solved the problem.”

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/07/disappearing-bees-progress-or-frustration-1.html

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Honeybees are still dying | Energy Bulletin August 31, 2011
http://www.energybulletin.net/node/52151 - Three years ago, honeybees started disappearing in the United States and ....

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“There are no honey bees native to the Americas. In 1622, European colonists brought the dark bee (A. m. mellifera) to the Americas, followed later by Italian bees (A. m. ligustica) and others.

“Many of the crops that depend on honey bees for pollination have also been imported since colonial times.

“Escaped swarms (known as “wild” bees, but actually feral) spread rapidly as far as the Great Plains, usually preceding the colonists. Honey bees did not naturally cross the Rocky Mountains; they were carried by ship to California in the early 1850s.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_bee

[TheOldLady]

Yeah, piker. He only woke up his own neighborhood. Everybody else for miles around never knew what happened.

And why wasn’t he arrested for killing bees? I thought that all the bees in America were dying and we’re all going to starve because the bees are gone.