Colony Collapse Disorder?
Ok, this is strange but it seems a great number of honeybees (drones) are dying off in incredible numbers.
This is not good. As pesty as they are, Bees play an integral role in the food chain to pollinate lots of crops.
Scientists seem to think it is due to a single spore parasite but others want to link it to low level radiation from cell phones etc....
Hmmm.
posted by Nrjetik1 @ 8:30 PM
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One way or another, I hope they come back soon. Today I read that something similar happened in the 90s, but I get the feeling that the mass bee die-off isn't supposed to happen as often as once every ten years.
I am thinking bees aren't actually a native species in the New World ... they were brought here to pollinate certain crops.
I wonder if my memory is any good or if I dreamt that.
SO I checked:
"I've come here to spend a couple of days looking at bees with Parker, who has studied the creatures for 41 of his 64 years. But the tiny specks dancing around this astragalus can't be bees: I can't hear them buzz. I can hardly even see them. Parker smiles patiently. He comes up against attitudes like mine all the time. Many North Americans think all bees are honeybees-the domesticated buzzers first brought to the New World by European colonists in the 1600s.
Frank Parker's fascination lies with the 30,000 wild bee species that buzz the planet, about 4,000 of which are native to the United States." http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1169/is_2001_April-May/ai_73749253
And found out that I was dreaming that -- or someone, somewhere, is lying. I seriously thought all bees came from the old world. Silly me.
I heard that on the npr today, and have heard about for awhile...it's the scale of it that's extra creepy.
XFiles....
"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man."
Albert Einstein.
no more man...maybe a good thing for the earth
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