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Old 05-03-2013, 05:17 PM
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Honeybees at a fifty year low.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...ories/?hpid=z3

The Europeans suspect neo-nicotinoid pesticides (tabacco juice) and have banned them for two years to see if their suspicions are confirmed. In the US we're so afraid of big agro to the point of calling for more studies instead of actually doing something. More tail wagging the dog, I suspect.
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Old 05-03-2013, 08:35 PM
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Many honey bees took teaser variable rate mortgages on their hives and when the bottom dropped out on value they were forced into foreclosure because they had overextended themselves. I wonder where they live now...

All kidding aside from what I heard this is a huge problem since the bees are so responsible for pollination of crops.
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Old 05-03-2013, 11:55 PM
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Yeah, all those predatory banks and their lobbyists didn't have anything to do with that mess.
Even this here nailpounding goofball thought something didn't smell right about variable rate mortgages. Pretty much a scam through and through.

You're right about the threat to the food supply. Maybe we can all just go out in the fields and orchards with paintbrushes and do their job for 'em.
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I just wounder if there is some common link between the bee's and the white-nose syndrome bat disease??

So goes the bee's so go us....



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Old 05-04-2013, 08:32 AM
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Everything suffers when more people are involved. I read somewhere the bee
population has decreased at the same rate digital radio signals have increased.
They were doing fine when everything was analog and I would say pesticides were
much worse 50 years ago.
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Old 05-04-2013, 09:24 AM
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Everything suffers when more people are involved. I read somewhere the bee
population has decreased at the same rate digital radio signals have increased.
They were doing fine when everything was analog and I would say pesticides were
much worse 50 years ago.
So we're going to have another digital vs. analog debate.

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So we're going to have another digital vs. analog debate.

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I thought that was a conspiracy too.


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Old 05-04-2013, 02:32 PM
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Everything suffers when more people are involved. I read somewhere the bee
population has decreased at the same rate digital radio signals have increased.
They were doing fine when everything was analog and I would say pesticides were
much worse 50 years ago.
Organo phosphates and carbamides were but these new pesticides weren't around back then. The widespread use of these new ones correlate with the decline and collapse of overwintering hives. It could be that as the bees dehydrate the nectar into honey they are also concentrating the new water soluable pesticide. Here's a wiki on neo nicotinoid pesticides.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-nicotinoid
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