Posted on 05/12/2007 10:36:36 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Bush’s fault
It must be the lefty objective of the day............Our local fish wrapper (The Milwaukee Urinal Sentinel) posted a similar story today.....
Still, this is a development that bears close watching.
"I'm beginning to smell a big fat Commie rat."
This may be a real concern, unlike the bogus global warming scare. Bees are crucial to agriculture, and they are mysteriously dying at an alarming rate. Of course, since it’s real, and the left hasn’t yet figured out a way to blame it on Republicans, it hasn’t been talked about much in the Left-Stream Media.
Enviromental Wackism, the new Secular Religion. All regions have their wacko doomsday cults, “Environmentalism” is our secular version of them.
We’re next.
I'll beekeeping a close eye on this problem.
It would bee a good time for the guys who sell bees.
Fellow I know of who lost his, got a new batch UPS.
Are the bears killing the bees?
The bees are showing up here even though there is nothing for them to do yet.
Actually, this is very true! We just had a field trip (homeschool group) to visit with a beekeeper, last week, here in GA. We learned that beekeepers “rent” their hives to farmers during pollination seasons, and having the bees augment the pollination process increases crop yield by approximately 80%, which as you can imagine is a significant profit for the farmer, and a significant increase in the supply of fresh produce to US markets, thus decreasing our prices as consumers.
One of the mothers asked the beekeeper if he himself had experienced this hive loss, and if so did he have any explanations for it. He said he had had some hive loss, and that it specifically occurred at farms where either the crops were GMO (genetically modified), or where they had recently been sprayed with any kind of chemical (such as fertilizer, or bug repellent). It seems the honeybees only feel inclined to pollinate natural plants, and if they didn’t find such plants near the hives, they would fly as far as, IIRC, 45 miles away from it to find something suitable as food. As you can imagine, they don’t all make it back to the hive, either through disorientation, or through being slammed on someone’s windshield, etc.
It was actually quite fascinating to learn how strongly our economy leans on honeybees! Here is a link to his website:
(BTW, the honey he brought with him for us to taste was the tastiest I have ever had!)
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“Beekeepers in Texas and several other states send thousands of hives to pollinate crops around the country, moving them from state to state and crop to crop.”
What FOOD crops are dependent on bees? I thought most food crops are grown from seeds.
Do flowering-plant crops - fruit orchards - depend on bees, or do fruit trees make their fruit whether or not bees pollinate their flowers? I thought the only difference was whether or not the seed produced would be fertile or not.
Nature’s bees are dying too I suppose. Why would it effect just commercial bees?
” “I’m beginning to smell a big fat Commie rat.”
It’s the flouride in the water..
We used to have bees in our yard. Haven’t noticed any this year.
Commercial bee hives support agriculture, which of course is not natural habitat. If you want to grow high concentrations of crops, you need high concentrations of bees. The natural environment doesn’t produce enough food to sustain a civilization. Assuming that any enviromental concern is leftist BS is just as foolish and knee-jerk as the environuts hysteria.
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