[decimon]

The little pollinators should declare beehad on the Israelis and the Australians.

[Abathar]

*Whew* - I was thinking they might ban all WIFI for a while...

[TLI]

What? You mean it isn’t cellphones?

[Ancesthntr]

The scientists report using a novel genetic technique and old-fashioned statistics to identify Israeli acute paralysis virus as the latest potential culprit....

Wait for it...wait for it...here it comes...from the small minds of moonbats and moon-worshippers everywhere: "Ahah! I knew it - its those damned JOOOOOOS again."

[OB1kNOb]

Well, I’ll bee!

[Ancesthntr]

Scientists previously have found blasting emptied hives with radiation apparently kills whatever infectious agent that causes the disorder.

If this was 1957, there'd be a really crappy film out about 50-foot bees next week, produced for about $122.87.

[LibWhacker]

No, no, no, it’s global warming!

[MaxMax]

Darn, I was hoping for global warming. Maybe later.

[nina0113]

You’d think somebody would have learned from the African bee importation problems (yes, I know the killer-bee movies were junk). Guess not.

[mtbopfuyn]

Ah, so the honey bees are stressed.

[DvdMom]

Missing HoneyBee Ping

[agere_contra]

“Listen to me! There’s no bee here ... there’s no bee here ... “

Surely Michael Caine has never had a finer role.

[GreyFriar]

Bee - utiful?

[alice_in_bubbaland]

I’ve heard of a number of causes. Cellphones, Merit (sp?) the stuff that kills grubs in Scott’s fertilizers & now a virus. I guess they really don’t know what the cause is for sure. I must admit that the virus seems the most plausible.

[Free Vulcan]

I’ve heard those beehads can be a real beeotch.

[The Great RJ]

But doesn’t the dogma of St. Algore attribute this to global warming?

[anymouse]

A virus you say? Oh, beehive. ;)

[Digger]

The mysterious deaths have struck between 50 percent and 90 percent of commercial honeybee hives in the United States

Organic beekeepers are having no effect. Commercial beekeepers put pesticides in hives, feed antibiotics to bees & have cells 50% larger than normal etc. Maybe not the answer but should be checked out.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

“The little pollinators should declare beehad on the Israelis and the Australians.”

Extremely too clever, decimon.

Thank you for the good laugh!

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[Reeses]

Bees are not native to North or South America, they were introduced by the white man. Yet American plants managed pollination before that. Maybe we should start butterfly hives instead.