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Global Warming Is Killing Bumblebees, Study Claims
Apex Tribune ^ | July 14, 2015 | Jenna Lewis

Posted on 07/14/2015 4:17:19 AM PDT by Zakeet

A new research carried out by scientists at the Universities of Ottawa and Calgary claims that global warming is killing bumblebees. The climate change is affecting the habitats of the bumblebees and making them shrink in size. The bumblebees in Europe and North America are at risk of disappearing.

Researchers have said that other species may adapt to the change in climate to a certain level and can expand their homes, but the conditions in the climate change didn’t allow the bumblebees to expand their homes as well.

(Excerpt) Read more at apextribune.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bees; environment; globalwarming
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To: Zakeet

Idiots!

Bees are thriving in Colorado!

Mine are quite happy.


21 posted on 07/14/2015 5:06:35 AM PDT by G Larry (Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

We’ve got bullfrogs galore around here.


22 posted on 07/14/2015 5:10:42 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: 1010RD

>>> I mean, that’s the history of the world: extinction. If we need bees we’ll figure out a way to keep them around. <<<

I keep telling the grandkids that the reason we don’t have dinosaurs any more is that they didn’t taste good.
If they tasted good there would be dinosaur farms just like chicken farms.


23 posted on 07/14/2015 5:27:45 AM PDT by JJ_Folderol (Diagonally parked in a parallel universe...)
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To: Zakeet

Tasmanian Tiger

Extinct for 70 years until one was videoed by Michael Moss ...

Oops...!

24 posted on 07/14/2015 5:37:53 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: 1010RD

What do commercial honeybees have to do with bumblebees?

Besides, it’s not all fine. Beekeepers have been having problems for years with Varoa mites & now colony collapse disorder probably related to neonicotinoid pesticides. Europe banned them, we won’t.

Climate change is constant, we are no longer in an ice age and Britain no longer produces wine as in Roman times. Doubt there’s an issue.


25 posted on 07/14/2015 5:42:17 AM PDT by zek157
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To: Zakeet

Isn’t it curious that honey bees that were A-OK in Florida, cannot now survive in Michigan, where even warmists must admit it’s not warmer than Florida has been in the last 10,000 years.

Are there any scientists left?


26 posted on 07/14/2015 6:01:28 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Zakeet

There were literally hundreds on our plants over the past month or so.


27 posted on 07/14/2015 6:13:14 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( "Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Zakeet

drivel, unmitigated drivel


28 posted on 07/14/2015 6:14:11 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: bert
dangerous drivel, unmitigated drivel

Let's be transparent.

29 posted on 07/14/2015 6:35:11 AM PDT by IncPen (Not one single patriot in Washington, DC.)
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To: Zakeet

Another load of Bee-S from the loony left.


30 posted on 07/14/2015 7:58:24 AM PDT by Augie
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To: FirstFlaBn

>>> My pants are too short because of global warming. <<<

My pants are too wide because of global warming.


31 posted on 07/14/2015 10:19:23 AM PDT by JJ_Folderol (Diagonally parked in a parallel universe...)
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To: cripplecreek

He might like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbMV9qYIXqM

It’s brilliant and innovative.


32 posted on 07/14/2015 5:09:44 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: JJ_Folderol

Exactly.


33 posted on 07/14/2015 5:10:24 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Zakeet
I live in Michigan.

I have seen a bunch of bumblebees hanging out around my lavender and roses.

No more and no less then other years.

34 posted on 07/14/2015 5:20:23 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: zek157

Honey bees are non-native to the US, so there’s that. Toss in the fact that large bee die offs over the winter aren’t that unusual and have been effectively dealt with every year. Globally honey bee populations are larger than in the last half century. So where’s the problem?


35 posted on 07/14/2015 5:23:29 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD

Ingenious.

Something like that could really bring a lot of people into beekeeping. I know harvesting honey is the primary reason I’ve never considered doing it myself.


36 posted on 07/14/2015 5:27:48 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: 1010RD

There are some concerns about the flowhive from beekeepers but that’s actually good because criticism is how things get better. Still, making harvest easier would likely bring a lot of hobbyists in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ScDMIakxd4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4v4IHGvPLA

I’ll send the video of the flowhive on to my neighbor and see what he thinks.


37 posted on 07/14/2015 5:41:34 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: cripplecreek

Ping me, please. I’d love to see what he says and how this thing improves over time. This is the kind of innovation that brings honey prices down and makes people more productive. I love the free market where millions of strangers spend hours, days, years working to make me happy.


38 posted on 07/14/2015 6:36:16 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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