Saving Pollinators From an Imaginary Bee-Pocalypse

Townhall.com ^ | April 10, 2021 | Paul Driessen

[Kaslin]

I remember when I was a child, which was a long time ago and we went into some Meadow to pick wild flowers and bees were flying around and because we chased the bees away. So many times we were stung by the bees, and the Bee sting was left in my skin.

My teacher told us, that whenever a bee stings you and leaves her stinger in your skin, the bee dies. From that time on I respected the bees and left them alone and I was never stung again.

[Chicory]

Back in the 1960s and 70s, every time we had any food, especially sweet drinks, outside, there were bees around.

Now, none. There are bumblebees (not very many) and wasps but I rarely see honey bees.

[ClearCase_guy]

the authors violated multiple guidelines for scientific integrity

There is a lot of that.

Bee colony collapse
Lemmings -- remember when they were considered suicidal? They're not.
Climate Change
DDT
COVID

I think people need to stop respecting science so much. This whole "settled science" and "follow the science" -- that is language of manipulation, not science.

And I'll just throw out my feeling that "Evolution" is, in my opinion, about as well understood as Climate Change. But anyone who questions Evolution -- anyone who questions man-made Climate Change -- is a "nut". Because we should never question Scientists. I mean, they're scientists, right?

[13Sisters76]

I know where all the honeybees are- the 5 big holly bushes in my yard! You step outside and all you can hear is the hum.

[yelostar]

Informative article.

Many of us do not realize the extent of the use of organic pesticides.

[bert]

You need to spend some time reading and in the field

Your understanding of evolution is minimal

[Flick Lives]

Queen bees can live 2-3 years, even 4 years or more; they lay up to 2,000 eggs per day. Male drone bees live several months during warm weather, but die after mating with a queen, because their reproductive organs are ripped from their bodies in the process! Female worker bees live only 4-6weeks, because foraging for food takes them miles every day and wears their bodies out quickly; they live up to 20 weeks in the winter, when their job is keeping the hive warm.

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Sounds like the Great Reset society planned by Leftists.

[Neverlift]

When someone says follow the science they are counting on you really don’t know any science but agree to what ever they said for fear of looking stupid.

[IrishBrigade]

‘But anyone who questions Evolution — anyone who questions man-made Climate Change — is a “nut”.’

plenty of people have questions about macroevolution; what plenty of people don’t do is reject its concepts just because they have questions...

[Paleo Pete]

Canola??? Canola crops??? I see canola and canola crops mentioned twice.

Since when does a canola plant even exist?

I looked up canola oil about 10 years ago, people were telling me it’s the best oil to use, yada yada, as if it were the best thing since peanut butter.

Naturally I was suspicious, absolutely nothing advertised by corporate America in the past 50 years as being he greatest thing yet has been oriented toward our better health or in our better interest.

So I found out canola oil was pressed from the seeds of the rapeseed plant, which was originally used as an industrial lubricant and an insecticide, being poisonous. And there was no such thing as a canola plant. That was specifically mentioned in most of the articles I read, there is no such plant.

It was named canola because it was developed in Canada, (can) and their word for oil is “ola”, (ola), put it together and you get canola. An invented name for an invented oil.

Rapeseed was genetically modified to reduce the amount of poisonous compounds, and genetically modified again later by Monsanto to make it resistant to Roundup. It’s also then hydrogenated, making it just as bad as any other hydrogenated oil you might use.

Now I find out there is actually such a thing as a canola plant, sometime in the past 10 - 15 years or so they have decided to split it off and make it a plant of its own, not even calling it rapeseed any more, now they call it a relative of rapeseed, not telling you it’s a genetically invented plant.

Insane...I’ve refused to touch canola oil since I looked it up years ago, anything derived from a poisonous plant then genetically modified is not a good idea. I use olive and sunflower oils, beginning to use coconut oil in some cases, it seems to be better than most commercially processed cooking oils too.

[whatexit]

Varroa is a massive problem. Colony counts reflected in the article are net, but colonies losses are averaging 40-50% each year due to the mites and the related viruses. There’s a hellova lot of work and expense to maintain the net counts.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

My teacher told us, that whenever a bee stings you and leaves her stinger in your skin, the bee dies. From that time on I respected the bees and left them alone and I was never stung again.

My mom told us the same thing but more succinctly;

"Don't bother them and they won't bother you."

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I use olive oil exclusively. Except when deep frying...which is about once per year. Then I use corn oil.

[Republican Wildcat]

Aren’t honeybees an invasive species?

[Bon of Babble]

I was alarmed by the so-called bee colony collapse a few years ago - there was a huge display and “expert” at the local county fair who was pretty good at fear mongering.

After that, I planted a bee garden in the far corner of my back yard, with specific bee-friendly flowering plants.

It’s flowering now and I’m getting a few bees - but nothing like when my citrus trees flower, they are covered with bees, but the grand champion is when my eucalyptus trees flower, which is not every year - the branches quake from so many bees. I also get a lot of bees in my angel trumpet’s flowers - which are very poisonous - and wonder if those bees are making honey with the pollen?

Doing my part to make sure there are a lot of bees.

[TheWriterTX]

Exactly.

The introduction of foreign bees brought the Varroa mite to the US. Our bees carry Nosema Ceranae but have built up a natural defense. When their systems have to fight off both, it overwhelms their natural defenses and results in stunted, deformed bees. CCD occurs shortly thereafter.

Also, taking almost all of their honey and replacing it with HFCS from genetically modified corn has not helped. It does not contain the same nutritive value for growing bees.

You can only mess with God’s creations for so long before things go astray.

[Fai Mao]

The rapeseed plant is not poisonous. It is widely eaten throughout Asia. The call it “Choi Sum” the king of vegetables. It is also known as one of the plants known as Chinese broccoli.

[faucetman]

I live in the woods. Bees aplenty! Can bees get COVID? Asking for a friend. /s

[Paleo Pete]

I use olive oil a lot, look into sunflower oil. It’s pretty good too, might be better than olive, and can handle higher temperatures. Coconut oil seems to be good too, but IHaven’t done a lot of looking, need to do that. A quick search turned up some intresting info, coconut oil can be used for anything that calls for butter, but I dont think it can handle the temps sunflower oil can. Sunflower oil works well, I’ve used it for the past 5 years or so, the only time I use olive oil now is for pizza and italian recipes.

Coconut also has other uses I knew nothing about. No chapstick? Coconut oil works well, and is being used in some of the lip balms now. Looks like it’s the only oil I’ve seen that is not only not detrimental, but might actually be good for you. Can be used as a sexual lubricant too, if one is needed. (I’ve had a couple of girlfriends who would have loved to know that. It’s not fun when she’s bone dry...)

Definitely look into both, sunflower and coconut, the info I’ve found indicates they might be the best two available. And olive oil is pretty good too. I won’t touch canola, worst crap you can ever use. I try to avoid soybean oil, it’s not great, and any hydrogenated oil is not a good idea. Hydrogenated vegetable oil is what actually causes heart disease, not cholesterol.

Hydrogenated vegetable oil was originally used as an ingeredient in paint, varnish and putty, because it hardens on exposure to oxygen, including the oxygen in your bloodstream. The companies that made it thught they needed to sell more but were too cheap to pay for the research, which is usually done on pigs, because their body physiology is close to ours.

Some enterprising salesman got the idea to sell it to the pig farmers, then just send out the researcher to check the pigs, rather than payng for the building, group of researchers, pigs, feed etc.

all was going well, the pigs were getting fat as hell and ready to take to the maret earlier, when they started dying from cancer and heart attacks. The researcher found it was the hydrogenated vegetable oil doing it. Ha later admmitted in court to accepting a bribe to change his paperwork and blame it on cholesterol. And now we have every doctor in the country squealing about cholesterol, which is actually not the problem.

When I first looed it up, my curiosity got to me, I found an article by a doctor who was previously ship’s doctor on the space shuttle. His regular twice a year checkup showed high cholesterol, his doctor put him on Lipitor, I think it was. A couple of weeks later he suddenly lost half a day of his memory, one of the undocum=ent3ed side afects of statins, and got off the lipitor.

Six months later his doctor did the same thing, and put him on haldf dosage. He lost his memory again and threw the stuff away, and started researching. His other job on the space shuttle was researching the long term afects of zero gravity on the huiman body, he knows how to do the research.

He said he was “appalled at how little my fellow doctors actually know about cholesterol”.

He found that cholesterol is not the problem, hydrogenated vegetable oil is. Cholesterol is required for the brain to function properly, foro the skin to transform sunlight into vitamin D, and for every cell in your body to form strong cell walls.

Required for the brain to function properly - I now wonder if anyone has even tought about plugging that into their research into Alzheimer’s, Parkinsons and dementia.

Low cholesterol - Institutional studies in jails, etc have found that low cholesterol is definitely related to things like depression, suicidal and violent tendencies, and a number of psychological and emotional disorders.

High cholesterol has been found to be related to - absolutely nothing. Not even heart diease or heart attacks. Several studies have shown that autopsies of 1000 people or more who died from heart attacks showed 60 to 65% had normal or low cholesterol levels, not high. If it causes heart attacs, I would expect to see 80% had high levels. Nope, it’s the opposite.

Not one study done since the 50’s has proven a definite link between heart attacks and cholesterol. Not one.

That’s what got me into checking out some of the oils used in cooking, digging into the cholesterol scam. Now it’s the 2nd greatest scam ever perpetrated on the American people, coronavirus just took 1st place.

Oh, one other note...years later, I can’t find half the articles I originally looked up. Seems many of them have been scrubbed of the web. Especially the story by the space shuttle doctor, I looked for it for a week...

[sneakers]

They were also in the dining room wall of our house. They came back every year. For years, we tried to get somebody out here to get them out. Every May, the hive would get so big that it would split and half fly away and establish a new hive. You always knew when they were getting ready to swarm because you could hear them in our dining room! Finally, last year, a beekeeper came and got them and told us how to humanely prevent them from coming back into our house. So far, this year, we have not had a problem. We did our part to contribute to saving the bees!