Happy Easter!
Bee seeing you...
Posted on 04/07/2007 7:02:03 AM PDT by Nomorjer Kinov
How were North American trees and plants pollinated before the Europeans introduced the honey bee?
Hives only produce as many workers as they can support. CCD is an interruption of this process. It is not a pesticide kill. CCD can be caused by attempts to mimic pollination using various pheromones. A principal component of this would be farnesol. Bees that have low levels of farnesol in their honey tend to be more inclined to mite infestation.
Well I had one land on my shoulder just the other day.
Somebody told them to buzz off, and, well...
I live in farming country and both sets of my grandparents were farmers.
I don’t think this is a laughing matter. You can’t laugh it up on the internet if you’re starving because the bees haven’t pollinated the crops.
Am I alarmist? Maybe.
Is this the end of the world? Probably not.
Worth looking into further, and more seriously? Most definitely.
Sincerely,
CD
AHA : the X FILES and KILLER BEES, must be the rebel aliens killing the bees...
I have a huge flower garden which attracts many bees. I will be observing carefully what happens in the next month or so. I would note that I have many honeybees because there is a beekeeper fairly nearby, but I also have many other kinds of bees. The reported bee losses are apparently honey bees, and, of course, beekeepers would notice that. As far as pollination goes, honeybees are not the only ones in that line of work, so part of the question has to be whether the decline is in the honey bee species or is a general problem affecting many other pollinators.
It is not a pesticide kill.
Sure.
A microscope will quickly prove or disprove mites. If it is mites, they’d be widely publicized by now. OTOH, if it is NOT mites, well, certain agencies and companies would prefer to NOT have it publicized in a big way that it is not mites.
They will put off throwing a handful of dead bees into a blender and then up the tube of a chromatograph for as long as they can, and hope to quietly remove the nicotinamides from production and use.
A quick web search leads me to believe that 'tomatoes' is the correct spelling.
41,200,000 for tomatoes / 630,000 for tomatos
It is utterly amazing the number of Libs I run into that scream about the Kyoto treaty. Not a single one has read it or knows anything about it that I've encountered. Equally amusing is the lack of knowledge that the Senate voted it down 99-0 and it was Clinton, not Bush, who refused to sign it.
Do they try to take advantage of social give away programs?
Thank you Perfect Stranger - I didn’t know there could be more than one way to spell it. I’ll go with tomatoes from now on. I could have looked in the dictionary but didn’t take the time. You wouldn’t happen to know the Vice President’s name that misspelled potato, would you?
Good morning. We didn’t get down to freezing last night but we did have SNOW! Unbelievable event. There was an inch or two that had collected in the valleys of the roof.
We can stick our toes in the Gulf of Mexico and had snow on April 8th.
LOL!!
Dan Quayle
Thank you very much. It was driving me crazy but I had a contest going with myself that I couldn’t look it up but would remember before anyone on Free Republic answered. - I lost. Either he was very forgetable or my memory is going.
The bees disappearing is really disturbing . Also were supposed to have the cicadas appear again too this summer ....
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