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The Beepocalypse is Over
Powerline ^ | April 2, 2024 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 04/02/2024 9:06:09 PM PDT by chickenlips

Fifteen or twenty years ago, and for some years following, there was a great deal of publicity about bee colonies dying out. The cause of the decline was unclear, but most people assumed it was somehow our fault. Where I live, “Save the Bees” signs started cropping up in yards and in front of apartment dwellings, along with “All Are Welcome Here” and “We Believe In Science.” Some people let their lawns go wild, not, as one might suspect, because they were too lazy to mow, but because they hoped a weed-filled lawn would be good habitat for bees.

But it seems the signs can come down now, as the Washington Post headlines: “Wait, does America suddenly have a record number of bees?”

After almost two decades of relentless colony collapse coverage and years of grieving suspiciously clean windshields, we were stunned to run the numbers on the new Census of Agriculture (otherwise known as that wonderful time every five years where the government counts all the llamas): America’s honeybee population has rocketed to an all-time high.

We’ve added almost a million bee colonies in the past five years. We now have 3.8 million, the census shows. Since 2007, the first census after alarming bee die-offs began in 2006, the honeybee has been the fastest-growing livestock segment in the country! And that doesn’t count feral honeybees, which may outnumber their captive cousins several times over.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 0bloggers; 2006; agriculture; apiaries; beepocalypse; bees; bloggers; colonies; crisis
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To: chickenlips

Not only does the federal government count every llama and bee colony, they somehow manage to count just about every other farm raised animal and fowl.

They have determined that at the time of the 2022 Census of Agriculture there were 1,737,674,957 chickens.

Not 1,737,674,956, not 1,737,674,958, but exactly 1,737,674,957 !!!

And we thought they were wasting all of our tax money on illegal aliens and financing both sides of hot wars around the globe...


21 posted on 04/03/2024 5:23:15 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Bur he is at the head of the line waBut)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
So, was any cause for the colony collapse ever discovered?

It must have been the need to push honey prices up.....


22 posted on 04/03/2024 5:24:51 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Bur he is at the head of the line waBut)
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To: chickenlips

I saw two honey bees this week. Honey bees have been absent for years now.

Somewhere near there is a colony that survived the winter.

My last colony died in 1990 something


23 posted on 04/03/2024 5:25:58 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: PGR88

Lack of genetic diversity is also an issue.


24 posted on 04/03/2024 5:28:59 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: chickenlips

Whew! I’m glad I can cross this off the worry list!


25 posted on 04/03/2024 5:39:25 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.c)
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To: Rennes Templar
Don't bee yourself up over it.

It's the kind of intel that comes out of left field.

26 posted on 04/03/2024 5:50:18 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: chickenlips

I had a friend that was a beekeeper.
I asked him about this, back when it was happening.
He said it was a joke, and the people spreading this crap did not know what they were talking about.
I believed him.
And the bee decimation people hated me.


27 posted on 04/03/2024 6:02:44 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: chickenlips

Another government lie.


28 posted on 04/03/2024 6:04:51 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: joe fonebone; Rennes Templar
>>>

I had a friend that was a beekeeper.
I asked him about this, back when it was happening.
He said it was a joke, and the people spreading this crap did not know what they were talking about.
I believed him.
And the bee decimation people hated me.

<<<

Truly a case of fake news, the negative waves

of relentless colony collapse coverage and years of grieving suspiciously

Because who doesn't know that it all started with 13 colonies, and

We now have 3.8 million, the census shows.

29 posted on 04/03/2024 6:15:48 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: Delta 21

Yup. My sentiment exactly. More gaslighting.


30 posted on 04/03/2024 6:18:26 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: TigersEye

Gees...

/s


31 posted on 04/03/2024 6:19:03 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Reddy

Wow, that was amazing


32 posted on 04/03/2024 7:25:47 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Fresh Wind
what annoys me is that people in this region call yellowjackets bees.

Doesn't bother me a bit.

33 posted on 04/03/2024 7:29:14 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: chickenlips

Every scare for the last 60 years the elites have “assumed it was somehow our fault.”
Greenhouse Effect
Coming ice age,
Global warming
PCBs
Dioxin
magnetic fields of force causing cancer
DDT
Radon
loss of Prairie dogs
Loss of Polar bears
Killer Bees
death of bees
Murder wasps
Kudzu.
Weed killers

And the list goes on and on and on.


34 posted on 04/03/2024 7:30:40 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: chickenlips

And what happened to all the deaf frog stories? They were a sign of an eco apocalypse


35 posted on 04/03/2024 7:39:51 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

I thought some of it was due to parasites.


36 posted on 04/03/2024 11:05:50 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: chickenlips

I once had a stunningly intelligent encounter with a bee. I was sitting outdoors with a tumbler of apple juice on the wrought iron patio table in front of me. A bee dipped down into the tumbler to drink from the juice. One wing got wet, and suddenly he could not free himself to fly up. As he flapped around with his one free wing, he started to come close to sinking and drowning .

I picked up a large dried leaf from the table by the stem end, carefully scooped the bee up out of the juice.

He shook himself and flew upwards in the away direction, but then paused in the air, flew back to face me at eye level, and seesawed his wings side to side for an instant, then turned and flew off. It was clear as day, a “thank you” gesture.


37 posted on 04/03/2024 12:52:35 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Iron Munro
They have determined that at the time of the 2022 Census of Agriculture there were 1,737,674,957 chickens.

How many are left after they have burned down several of the chicken farms?

38 posted on 04/03/2024 12:55:18 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
So, was any cause for the colony collapse ever discovered?

Verona Mites.

39 posted on 04/03/2024 1:06:45 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: logi_cal869

LOL


40 posted on 04/03/2024 8:46:21 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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