Beez Buzzed Away

[Atheist-Lite]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/0 ... 03896.html

North American bees are disappearing at a rapid rate, signaling a dire threat to the production of countless food sources. The Guardian reports that four common species of U.S. bumble bees have declined 96 percent in recent decades, and scientists allege that disease and inbreeding are responsible.

Honey bees have long been known to be in decline, suffering from the enigmatic colony collapse disorder, and the latest research on U.S. bumble bees only exacerbates concerns over future food production, as bees are responsible for pollinating 90 percent of the world's commercial plants, from fruits and vegetables to coffee and cotton.

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[FBM]

We'll just have to hire small, poor brown people to do the pollinating by hand, I guess.

[JimC]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/0 ... 03896.html

North American bees are disappearing at a rapid rate, signaling a dire threat to the production of countless food sources. The Guardian reports that four common species of U.S. bumble bees have declined 96 percent in recent decades, and scientists allege that disease and inbreeding are responsible.

Honey bees have long been known to be in decline, suffering from the enigmatic colony collapse disorder, and the latest research on U.S. bumble bees only exacerbates concerns over future food production, as bees are responsible for pollinating 90 percent of the world's commercial plants, from fruits and vegetables to coffee and cotton.

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You do enjoy it when bad things happen, don't you...

Kevin, thy name is schadenfreude...

[Feck]

Last thing I heard was that CCD was caused by a virus from Australian bees that were imported to replace the losses due to the other set backs Bees have had over the last few years . Another triumph for intensive farming and mono culture .

[Atheist-Lite]

The amphibians are going extinct as well apparently. I don't understand why? Seems everywhere I look these days things are turning from gold to rust?

[lsdetroit]

moms going to fix it all soon.

[Pappa]

The amphibians are going extinct as well apparently. I don't understand why? Seems everywhere I look these days things are turning from gold to rust?

Its primary cause is a fungus that's being spread round the world (probably by human activity). It's called Chytrid Fungus (Phylum Chytridiomycota) and creates a kind of necrosis.

http://www.amphibianark.org/the-crisis/chytrid-fungus/

[Atheist-Lite]

The amphibians are going extinct as well apparently. I don't understand why? Seems everywhere I look these days things are turning from gold to rust?

Its primary cause is a fungus that's being spread round the world (probably by human activity). It's called Chytrid Fungus (Phylum Chytridiomycota) and creates a kind of necrosis.

http://www.amphibianark.org/the-crisis/chytrid-fungus/

It's had millions of years to do that. Why now?

[Azathoth]

It is all in preparation for the rapture.

[Pappa]

The amphibians are going extinct as well apparently. I don't understand why? Seems everywhere I look these days things are turning from gold to rust?

Its primary cause is a fungus that's being spread round the world (probably by human activity). It's called Chytrid Fungus (Phylum Chytridiomycota) and creates a kind of necrosis.

http://www.amphibianark.org/the-crisis/chytrid-fungus/

It's had millions of years to do that. Why now?

Human activity is the most likely reason. We spread all sorts of diseases all over the world very quickly due to international travel. The pet trade might be a factor too.

[Deep Sea Isopod]

Who was it who said that without bees humans would only have four years to live?

[Clinton Huxley]

Who was it who said that without bees humans would only have four years to live?

Probably some bee.

[Feck]

Who was it who said that without bees humans would only have four years to live?

Well if I was farming almonds in california for a living then I would be cutting down trees and planting a golf course because they are screwed .

I guess when the farmers are offered self pollinating strains of all the crops we need to survive they wont be so keen to say that GM crops are 'frankinstein' foods and we are 'trying to be god ' .

[Deep Sea Isopod]

Good point about TM.

[Atheist-Lite]

I think we might be toast. Food prices on the rise again.