To Bee or not to Bee

[race aficionado]

Have you guys heard of this one?
It's seriouse stuff I think and there are various theories on this one.


Honeybees Vanish Leaving Keepers in Peril

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/business/27bees.html?ex=1330232400&en=3aaa0148837b8977&ei=5088


:s mokin:

[Eki]

Animals are more mysterious than us humans think. Like this cat who seems to know who's going to die soon:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,290840,00.html

[race aficionado]

Animals are more mysterious than us humans think. Like this cat who seems to know who's going to die soon:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,290840,00.html

Indeed. Some say that the bees are being like the "first responders" or the "canaries inside the mines" - letting us know that something is indeed wrong and that we should do something about it before it is too late.

:s mokin:

[Rollo]

Half a bee, philosophically, must, ipso facto, half not be.
But half the bee has got to be, vis a vis its entity - do you see?
But can a bee be said to be or not to be an entire bee,
When half the bee is not a bee due to some ancient injury?

[race aficionado]

Rollo,
I want what you are having.

:)

[Jefe Máximo]

They've joined the coalition of the willing and buzzing.

[LotusElise]

It's all the fault of Japanese hornets apparently. They eat bees and they're spreading.

[race aficionado]

any link available LotusElise?
I am indeed very curious about the Bee dissapearance mystery.

[LotusElise]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1025_021025_GiantHornets.html

There are a few reports of these things managing to migrate out of Japan on container ships. Look on Youtube for "Japanese giant hornet" if you want to see them in action.

Japanese bees have developed a defence against the hornets: they surround them in a tight ball and cause the hornet to overheat and die.

[race aficionado]

Gracias.

[Hazell B]

To bee or not to bee?
That is the question.
Whether t'is nobler ......

My photographer friend Roger had to go with a bee keeping type from Yorkshire to Kent recently, moving a hive to help out a pollenation problem. They had to trap the bees in the dark and be right down south by day break to let them out. He had a load of them get in to the van's cab when the lights and heating woke them up on the M1 :p :

Anyway, Roger said Kentish bees are having problems and Yorkshire bees were being paid very well to restore the balance.

Little to do with this thread I know, but the photos Roger took of the rather angry bees in the van cab were very funny :D

[janneppi]

Have you guys heard of this one?
It's seriouse stuff I think and there are various theories on this one.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/business/27bees.html?ex=1330232400&en=3aaa0148837b8977&ei=5088


:s mokin:

I'll bring this up a bit.

There was a news article that numbers of wasps and bumblebees have began plummeting despite good estimates in spring.
Scientist are now thinking that it's linked to the bee problem in US and that the reason could be a disease that spreads among some insects.

Bird flue eat your heart out, bee flue is the next bogie man.

[race aficionado]

Add to that this other theory:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/22/news/wireless23.php



"Cellphones linked to honeybee death"

:s mokin:

[veeten]

Bees make honey.

I like honey. :lips:

... so, bees are okay. :)