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Bees pissed humans steal honey. Commit mass suicide.
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Another believe it or not!
Bees disappearing as mystery ailment sweeps U.S.
Bees are vanishing across the United States, leaving empty colonies behind and putting honey production in jeopardy -- and nobody knows why.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...hub=TopStories
WTF
Tired of working for peanuts...ah...what do they work for? Is it slavery?
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Maye they need a union?
This could develop into a serious problem for food production and availability, which may cause us to get stung by much higher food prices.
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Why is there always money for war, but none for education?
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Crap, one more thing to worry about.
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My stupid iPhone game: Nesen Probe, it's rather old, annoying and pointless, but it's free.
Was free. Now it's gone. Never to be seen again.
Off to join its brother and sister apps that could not
keep up with the ever updating iOS. RIP Nesen Probe.
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Yeah, I heard about this a few months ago. Pretty scary.
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Heard a story on this today. A beekeeper who was interviewed is convinced it is a result of the use of a certain pesticide (the name escapes me now). One of the principal effects of the pesticide in question upon insects is severe disorientation before death. This could explain why otherwise normal beehives, full of honey and pollen, are abandoned and void of bodies. The bees simply don't find their way back to the hive and eventually die.
Whatever the cause, the implications for the food chain are not so good.
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I'm so not ready for hordes of hungry bears in our streets.
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More like I'm so not ready for massive price increases in any type of food that requires bees for pollination. 
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Originally Posted by design219 
Crap, one more thing to worry about.
So don't worry then.  
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Being in debt and celebrating a lower deficit is like being on a diet and celebrating the fact you gained two pounds this week instead of five.
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Didn't we have a thread about this like a month back or something?
Bees are vanishing across the United States, leaving empty colonies behind and putting honey production in jeopardy -- and nobody knows why.
I know why. It's the GM crops.
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Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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Originally Posted by Doofy
Didn't we have a thread about this like a month back or something?
I know why. It's the GM crops.
What's General Motors got to do with it?
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back home in California, I have actually been noticing more and more bee carcasses around my house. I wouldn't have noticed except for the fact that it is A LOT of bee carcasses. Got curious one day and dissected one, and the stinger was still in, so I knew it wasn't because of them stinging something.
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Horatio Cain could use you.
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I'd rather have Grissom as my boss thank you
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This is actually far from funny and very worrying indeed.
About one-third of crops depends on honeybee pollination, said Jamie Ellis, an assistant entomology professor at the University of Florida's honeybee research lab.
"The agriculture industry is built on the backs of honeybees," he said.
Bees pollinate alfalfa and other crops fed to livestock, he said, so the loss of bees has the potential to disrupt the entire food supply.
Ellis, like other bee experts, references a quote attributed to Albert Einstein to illustrate the importance of the insects: If all bees disappeared tomorrow, humans would have four years left on the planet.
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so the alien bees came to earth. ****ed the earth bees, the earth bees had mutant kids (the current bee population) that can not reproduce for some reason and all Earths bees die out, AND if Albert Einstein is correct then we humans will have only a limited amount of time left here on earth and we in turn die out. then the alien race who sent the alien bees in the first place could inhabit earth for their own race???
do i have this right so far??
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Originally Posted by KarlG
Maye they need a union?
Hard to implement. They have a fiercely monarchial society.
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On one hand I think that it would be quite fitting if it were the result of GM crops. That's what they deserve for ****ing with the natural order of things. They gonna screw us all if they keep trying to improve upon things that they don't even understand.
On the other hand, these stories always talk of the worst case scenarios. Sensationalism sells. SARS, Anthrax, Spongiform Encephalopathy, Avian flu, Swine Flu, West Nile…
Now we have CCD. Yeah, I realize that the decimation of the Bee populations could be a disaster, but more than likely this will pass, we may take a temporary hit on the prices of certain food items, then things will go back to normal in a few years. IMO of course.
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Being in debt and celebrating a lower deficit is like being on a diet and celebrating the fact you gained two pounds this week instead of five.
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oh hey! here's a thought. if the flowers that need bees to pollinate die out, almost no more allergies due to pollen
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