Finally, the nutjobs will have to stop blaming cell phone towers!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/science/07bees.html?_r=1&hp
Excellent news!
Quote from: The Lord and Lady Omnibus Fuck on October 07, 2010, 08:09:57 PM
Finally, the nutjobs will have to stop blaming cell phone towers!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/science/07bees.html?_r=1&hp
I call rule 34 on fungus and virus tag teaming a bee.
that aside, very good news.
YAY, maybe they won't all die off now.
Ahh. Good news. I hope we find some way of actually averting the crisis, instead of just understanding why we're all dead meat.
Losing the honeybees is not doomsday... at least, not in the Americas. Native bees were pollinating plants for millennia before Europeans introduced the honeybee, which pushed the native species to the brink of extinction. Colony collapse disorder, which only affects European honeybees, has given native species a chance to re-establish themselves.
Great news, i get upset at the thought of losing an entire species.
Except for mosquitos, fuck them.
And dont even get me started on omni antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Yes those exist now.
I recently watched EO Wilson's epic TED talk. I'm resigned to the fact that, if something kills us all, it will be too small to see.
Quote from: The Lord and Lady Omnibus Fuck on October 07, 2010, 08:09:57 PM
Finally, the nutjobs will have to stop blaming cell phone towers!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/science/07bees.html?_r=1&hp
Nonsense, the fungus was made up by the government in order to protect the cell phone companies. :tinfoilhat:
Quote from: The Lord and Lady Omnibus Fuck on October 07, 2010, 08:30:55 PM
Losing the honeybees is not doomsday... at least, not in the Americas. Native bees were pollinating plants for millennia before Europeans introduced the honeybee, which pushed the native species to the brink of extinction. Colony collapse disorder, which only affects European honeybees, has given native species a chance to re-establish themselves.
Motorcycle!
It may mean we'll lose some kinds of crops, or at least we'll lose the current methods for farming those crops... but it doesn't mean we're all gonna die.
Okay...
So losing the honeybees is not doomsday.
But "bumblebees" are unaffected? Am I getting that right?
Yes but you can fight those off using the flowers of Leeks.
I don't want to fight them off. They're our patron animal.
Because when they decide to sting you, they fatally crap out their own guts to do so. Which is the most PDcom thing I have ever heard.
Queen and worker bumblebees can sting. However, unlike a honey bee's stinger a bumblebee's stinger lacks barbs, so they can sting more than once.
Unless you were talking about honey bees being the most PDcom thing ever.
Honey bees. Yes.
Quote from: Sigmatic on October 08, 2010, 07:26:14 AM
I don't want to fight them off. They're our patron animal.
Because when they decide to sting you, they fatally crap out their own guts to do so. Which is the most PDcom thing I have ever heard.
:spit2:
Despite my entomological leanings and love of bee products, I don't particularly care for the exclusionary activities of European invaders against natives. Bees that is.
I like the idea of honebees being like us. Awwwww! :)
Quote from: The Lord and Lady Omnibus Fuck on October 08, 2010, 11:13:24 PM
I like the idea of honebees being like us. Awwwww! :)
And "honey" is so sweet, European and otherwise. 8)
Quote from: Horrendous Foreign Liam Stoat on October 10, 2010, 11:11:38 AM
I for one am happy ;D I was one of the nutjobs blaming cell phone towers. The data seemed to fit.
I'm looking forwards to getting a few hives when we move.
Wouldn't getting hives make moving uncomfortable?
Quote from: Placid Dingo on October 10, 2010, 12:51:22 PM
Quote from: Horrendous Foreign Liam Stoat on October 10, 2010, 11:11:38 AM
I for one am happy ;D I was one of the nutjobs blaming cell phone towers. The data seemed to fit.
I'm looking forwards to getting a few hives when we move.
Wouldn't getting hives make moving uncomfortable?
:rimshot:
Quote from: The Lord and Lady Omnibus Fuck on October 07, 2010, 08:30:55 PM
Losing the honeybees is not doomsday... at least, not in the Americas. Native bees were pollinating plants for millennia before Europeans introduced the honeybee, which pushed the native species to the brink of extinction. Colony collapse disorder, which only affects European honeybees, has given native species a chance to re-establish themselves.
And now OUR bees are all Africanized! :lulz:
Leaked document shows EPA allowed bee-toxic pesticide despite own scientists' red flags
http://www.grist.org/article/food-2010-12-10-leaked-documents-show-epa-allowed-bee-toxic-pesticide-
Way to go, EPA.
LOL
Oh wait I mean :x
I am pretty sure this is NOT what Nixon had in mind.
GEE I WONDER IF THIS HS ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE DECLINE IN HUMAN FETUS VIABLITY IN NORTH AMERICA
NAAAAHHH.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/11/AR2011011100106.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/11/AR2011011100106.html)
Looks like the Bumblebees are tanking as well.
On the upside, this will spur a whole new job sector... people with q-tips manually pollinating crops.