Vanishing bees equal end of world?

[iBlue]

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I get angry every time I see the TV ad for Raid Yellow Jacket Traps.

eff that, yellow jackets are little arseholes! I might feel a slight saddened sting for missing honey bees but good freakin riddance yellow jackets, hornets, wasps, etc. Mean little bastards!

by the way, your avatar is positively adorable.

 

[Teddy's]

I saw a news documentary about a Chinese doctor curing rheumatoid arthritis by inducing pain to the joints. This was done by using bees to sting the patient. He has thousands of bees in his clinic and he is doing pretty good money.

I don't know if he "replaces" the bees that give their little lives to save humans from pain. It's not something totally scientific proved, as this "doctor" didn't look a knowledgeable person IMHO. He mentioned that a few years ago he was a clerk or some sort, then he a bee stung him

At least the patients say they were feeling better.

Save Our Sweet Little Friends.

 

[fingers]

I heard from a friend of mine that the demise of the bee is down to the electro-magnetic radiation from cellphone transmitters. Apparently causing them to lose their way back to their hive.

Scary stuff, we are all doomed!

 

[walangij]

I saw a news documentary about a Chinese doctor curing rheumatoid arthritis by inducing pain to the joints. This was done by using bees to sting the patient. He has thousands of bees in his clinic and he is doing pretty good money.

I don't know if he "replaces" the bees that give their little lives to save humans from pain. It's not something totally scientific proved, as this "doctor" didn't look a knowledgeable person IMHO. He mentioned that a few years ago he was a clerk or some sort, then he a bee stung him

At least the patients say they were feeling better.

Save Our Sweet Little Friends.

I saw a shortened version in the NG video podcast! I hope the bees continue to pollinate the delicious fruits!

 

[Abstract]

I heard from a friend of mine that the demise of the bee is down to the electro-magnetic radiation from cellphone transmitters. Apparently causing them to lose their way back to their hive.

Scary stuff, we are all doomed!

Then why did it only kick in recently? We've had airwaves for ages....waves at many frequencies.

 

[fingers]

Then why did it only kick in recently? We've had airwaves for ages....waves at many frequencies.

Don't know. I'll ask him next time I see him. Although not a bee keeper, he has quite a knowledge of our little friends. I know we have had radio waves since the days of Marconi et al, but the amount of transmitters we have now (and possibly the specific frequencies that they use) could have something to do with it?

 

[Abstract]

I'm not even talking about that far back. Why didn't it happen last year, or the year before? The situation was somewhat the same. I guess there may have been an effect that takes time to accumulate, and eventually......they just fall over!

 

[fingers]

I'm not even talking about that far back. Why didn't it happen last year, or the year before? The situation was somewhat the same. I guess there may have been an effect that takes time to accumulate, and eventually......they just fall over!

Could be, I am going to email my friend now, and see where the source of this theory comes from.

 

[fingers]

My friend replied:
"apparently its all the wifi waves that disorientate them & they can't find their way back to their hives. The main killer of bees is sill the Varroa mite a nasty little red coloured parasite that eats them alive."
That would explain why it's only a recent phenomenon. I am so glad I am not a bee... urgh.

 

[srf4real]

That would explain why it's only a recent phenomenon. I am so glad I am not a bee... urgh.

It is not only a recent phenomenon. Check linkety..
"Fourth, even the original report describing and naming the phenomenon explicitly says it's something that has been seen before (repeatedly), named before, and studied before – in all cases without coming to any conclusion about the cause. The researchers didn't like the older names for the syndrome (which usually included the word "disease," which has connotations about infectiousness that don't seem applicable here), so they renamed it colony collapse disorder. That point has largely eluded the press, with the result that most people think this is a new phenomenon, when in fact the researchers who described it note reports of similar die-offs dating back to the 1890s."

 

[crazytom]

I heard from a friend of mine that the demise of the bee is down to the electro-magnetic radiation from cellphone transmitters. Apparently causing them to lose their way back to their hive.

Scary stuff, we are all doomed!

I don't think so:

" “Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?” It floated a baseless theory—citing a study that was not, in fact, carried out—that radiation from cell phones was disorienting the bees."

The rest of the article can be found here: Discover magazine website

 

[Pani]

Small Steps to Help Bees

Here is a link to 5 small steps one can take to help honeybees thrive. Every little bit counts.

http://lighterfootstep.com/five-ways-to-help-our-disappearing-bees.html

Mainly it applies to people with gardens. But the last suggestion is to support local bee keepers. Where I live, they have a farmers market downtown in Daley Center and they bring their honey every week during the summer. I think that is what everyone is getting for Christmas.

This IS a very serious problem. And only one of many serious catastrophies we are facing from global warming to economic collapse. We need to wake up and realize what is really important.

 

[zim]

Here is a link to 5 small steps one can take to help honeybees thrive. Every little bit counts.

http://lighterfootstep.com/five-ways-to-help-our-disappearing-bees.html

Mainly it applies to people with gardens. But the last suggestion is to support local bee keepers. Where I live, they have a farmers market downtown in Daley Center and they bring their honey every week during the summer. I think that is what everyone is getting for Christmas.

This IS a very serious problem. And only one of many serious catastrophies we are facing from global warming to economic collapse. We need to wake up and realize what is really important.

Thank you for posting that article, very informative.

 

[Bees]

No worries

I beekeeper I met (also at a farmer's market) told me that the hives that are in decline are commercial hives. These are hives that are trucked thousands of miles--from Florida through Texas to California--to pollenate crops here and there. These worker bees ain't workers. They're slave bees. In any case, the beekeeper's own hives are doing perfectly well (and producing extremely expensive honey--another consequence of the die-off) because she doesn't move them. The commercial bees are constantly moved, under stress, and as with most animals, are thus subject to disease and so on. It isn't as if this is a consequence of some global transformation or radio waves. It is a consequence of bad practices that hurt bees.

I chose my username long before this thread was conceived, by the way.

 

[Evangelion]

This was talked about in Finland as well last week. Apparently the population on bumblebees and wasps has gone dramatically down in just few weeks time, but honeybees are OK. Experts are blaming the drop on bad weather-conditions.

I hope we get some bumblebees this summer, I miss those little guys . Wasps I don't care that much for....

 

[iBlue]

Well a couple of weeks ago a bumble bee flew right into my bedroom and scared the living hell out of me. I shooed it out safely to happily propagate its species. Looks like there's hope in this far east london borough.

 

[the vj]

There are not bees in Venezuela neither.

After reading this article I realize that there are no more bees around here in Caracas. I used to see them around the bakery stores where there is a lot of shugar. Everytime you buy a coffe or a soda there is a bee around but not any more.

I posted the coment in my MSN and many of my friends realized the same thing and i have been like that for a few years now. Bees are gone.