Posted on 05/02/2007 12:38:30 PM PDT by Froufrou
The answer to what happened to America's vanishing honeybees is simple, a caller told entomologist May Berenbaum: Bee rapture. They were called away to heaven.
No, wait, it's Earth's magnetic field, another caller told the University of Illinois professor.
And when Berenbaum went on the Internet, she found a parody news site that quoted her as blaming rapper Kevin Federline and his concerts for the disappearance of the bees. Berenbaum loved it.
The sudden disappearance of one-quarter of America's honeybees has brought out some strange ideas and downright myths.
"I just can't get any work done," Berenbaum said. "I'm overwhelmed by e-mails. I can't keep up."
A couple of bee myths are big on the Internet.
A small German scientific study looking at a specific type of cordless phones and homing systems of bees exploded over the Internet and late night television shows. It morphed into erroneous reports blaming cell phones for the honeybee die-off, which scientists are calling Colony Collapse Disorder.
The scientist who wrote the paper, Stefan Kimmel, e-mailed The Associated Press to say that there is "no link between our tiny little study and the CCD-phenomenon ... anything else said or written is a lie."
And U.S. Department of Agriculture top bee researcher Jeff Pettis laughs at the idea, because whenever he goes out to investigate dead bees, he cannot get a signal on his cell phone because the hives are in such remote areas.
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This story won’t make it to the MSM until Bush is blamed.
Maybe they all moved to Canada because they don’t like Bush.
What about disappearing because of the continued spread of killer bees?
You think they suffer from BeeDS?
Mebbe they went to THAILAND!
“Bees are working themselves to death creating crop circles.”
I caught a subpanel of congress hearing on this issue, seemed to be a consensus amoung those called to testify that it was a particular pesticide and its widespread adoption that had a pretty strong link to the honeybee’s decline.
Methinks whenever the press actually gets off their lazy butts and do some research, they’ll find that these folks from various professions and fields who have a vested interest in honey bees for their livelihoods are probably right.
It’s the aliens.
...the ones named “Fhowaerhgtojhs” or “Skjhdksjhfllshfgde”; not the ones named “José” or “Juan”.
Speaking of Global Problems Predicted by the Earth First Crowd that Haven't Been What Was Claimed, what about the Killer Bees?
Say, is that a bee in your bonnet, or are you just glad to buzz me?
Still, Bee Rapture would make a kick-a** name for a punk band.
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| Posted by rhinohunter On News/Activism 05/01/2007 5:53:46 PM CDT · 22 replies · 445+ views AP ^ | 5-1-07 | Jim Brooks LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A swarm of bees clustered outside the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Medical Center shut down the emergency room Monday, as officials waited for a beekeeper to come vacuum up the 7,000 insects. Although no one was stung, the Little Rock emergency room still decided to be closed for ambulance traffic. "We'll take walk-ins, but ambulances are being diverted to other hospitals," UAMS spokeswoman Andrea Peel said. Doctors did not see any patients with bee stings, but emergency room physician Dr. Delaney Kinchen said it was an important precaution to close the ER while... |
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Hey! You may be onto something...would it have to be a reggae band?
Maybe they were all bisected accidentally.
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