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Colony collapse disorder - mystery solved?

Started by Mesozoic Mister Nigel, October 07, 2010, 08:09:57 PM

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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

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'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Bebek Sincap Ratatosk

#1
October 07, 2010, 08:13:01 PM
Excellent news!
- I don't see race. I just see cars going around in a circle.

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Disco Pickle

#2
October 07, 2010, 08:16:13 PM
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.
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Don Coyote

#3
October 07, 2010, 08:17:38 PM
YAY, maybe they won't all die off now.

Jasper

#4
October 07, 2010, 08:22:10 PM
Ahh.  Good news.  I hope we find some way of actually averting the crisis, instead of just understanding why we're all dead meat.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#5
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.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Reginald Ret

#6
October 07, 2010, 08:37:10 PM
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.
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#7
October 07, 2010, 08:40:38 PM
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.

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#8
October 07, 2010, 08:53:11 PM
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:
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Bebek Sincap Ratatosk

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October 07, 2010, 09:24:29 PM
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.
- I don't see race. I just see cars going around in a circle.

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Jasper

#10
October 08, 2010, 12:07:27 AM
Okay...

So losing the honeybees is not doomsday.

But "bumblebees" are unaffected?  Am I getting that right?

Triple Zero

#11
October 08, 2010, 07:22:10 AM
Yes but you can fight those off using the flowers of Leeks.
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Jasper

#12
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.

Don Coyote

#13
October 08, 2010, 07:29:50 AM
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.

Jasper

#14
October 08, 2010, 07:34:30 AM
Honey bees.  Yes.
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