To The Rescue!
Posted on 05/08/2007 4:25:15 PM PDT by dvan
As I said in #34, it was after talking to beekeepers. Sorry for a late response.
I have alot of flowering shrubs also and I’ve noticed no bee activity except a few large wood-boring bumblebees. It’s happening and we need to find out why. These are akin to the “canaries in the mine-shaft” as far as I’m concerned. We can all handle a little natural temperature variation but gene modification of plants and animals is playing God and will likely be our downfall.
They built nests in the all plastic slotlike places on my hose reel. I couldn't figure out what all the yellow stuff was I was seeing until I did some research. It was the pollen stores put in the cavity where they will deposit their larva.
I’m even thinking of building a mason bee house. It's nothing more than a block of wood with holes drilled in it where the bees deposit their larva with a pollen store. You then put a little roof on it so water doesn't drip in and plastic straws in the holes as a kind of a liner that you can remove and replace to keep the nests clean for future use. Looks like a bluebird house with a solid block of wood drilled full of small holes instead of a box.
Almonds - maybe more.
Maybe much more.
I’m sorry about your husband :(
I hope you continue to see more of those bees.
uh....ok.
obviously I missed it.
What did the beekeepers have to say?
“You have Viagra?”
good one.....
I know the bees are from europe.
One news program claimed many of the fruit trees did not exist here prior to europeans settling.
I’m not sure which plants are pollinated by which types of bees, so I can’t really form an opinion there yet.
“I saw a posting some time ago in which someone mentioned that they had seen “Black” bees”
Is that what happens when a black gooey alien symbiote attaches itself to honeybees? Like what happened to Spiderman in Spidy3?
That would explain their unusual behavior lately.
Bush’s fault.
What did North America do before it had honeybees?
SunnyFlorida, you have to have a better argument then that.
Your original post implied that the bee die off was a hoax, and you listed Snopes as your backup.
I then pointed out that Snopes is not disputing the die off, but disputing whether Einstein made the famous statement about bees.
I then gave you a link that proves the die off is going on and is a problem, but evidently you never bothered to read any of it.
If you had read the transcript at that link you would have seen that it was only the prepared opening statement of Diane Cox-Foster, Professor, Dept. of Entomology for Pennsylvania State University. Only her words, no Democrats.
Wouldn't it have been easier just to say you did not realize the die off was actually happening?
Live free or die.....!!! agreed!
To The Rescue!
IOW's, the bees are overworked, overexposed, possibly undernourished.
Good post. Thank you.
You nailed it there.
Another key word in this article is "genetically modified".
Gen.1:11 And God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth:" and it was so.
God doesn't approve of "hybrids" and much of our crops are now hybrids. Perhaps this is what the bee problem is all about. As one who plants a garden I know it is difficult to find things that aren't altered. I usually grow Brandywine tomatoes but my seedlings died this year so I bought plants from a nursery - all are hybrids. The seeds from these tomatoes will not produce others. The same with the corn. Here in the south the "Silver Queen" corn is mouth watering but it is probably a hybrid too.
As I have told you before there have not been any bees around my garden and flowers at all. I did see a bumble bee yesterday and his little legs were packed with pollen, but he was the only one I saw. I was shocked last week as I was weeding an area. I actually heard a buzzing. As the sound has been absent I really noticed it and tracked it down. There was one lone honey bee working in a patch of flowers. He is the first I have seen in two years. I'm being very careful to not use insecticides on anything. Maybe he is a sign that they are coming back.
Thank you for sending this ping. I think it is something we should be very concerned about.
.......Ping
You offer NO PROOF. Links are never PROOF -just stories and “testimony” before congress(anyone that trusts THAT is defacto guilible.) There are others that say the bee population swings up and down. So people report all time bee highs. My citrus was full of bees.
I never said hoax, I said hysteria. People living in glass houses should not through stones.
Hysteria for the hysterical.
“IOW’s, the bees are overworked, overexposed, possibly undernourished.”
Call in the IBoKB, UNESCO, Ray-School-Bus-New-Orleans. Sounds like another govmint program is needed. All I want to know is who is in whose pocket - follow the money.
“God doesn’t approve of “hybrids””
How do you know?
BTW, at some level ALL plants are hybrids.
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