Honey Bees Vanishing

[afghooey]

Vanishing bees threaten US crops:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6438373.stm

Could genetically modified crops be killing bees?
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/10/HOG5FOH9VQ1.DTL

Guess Joni Mitchell was right, eh? :hippy:

[Plastic Jesus]

Crazy shit! My GF's parents are beefarmers. I just e-mailed them the link. I have worked around bees... them be some nasty bitches if they're pissed!

[Dest]

hey guys theres a bunch of bees outside my house and i think they are blotting out the sun (i think i figured out where they all went :eek: )

[ATrain]

Stephen Colbert just did a story on that. Very funny!:thumbsup:

[Abattoir Dream]

its crazy, I THINK I KNOW WHATS GOIN ON!!!

they said they have no idea whats happenin to them, well.. i think i do..

THEY ARE MIGRATING!!!


TO ENGLAND!!!

lol i swear they are, the past few days there have been LOADS of bees in my back garden, like yesturday, i went outside, and theres 3 pairs of honeybee's mating, and about another 5-6 dotted around the garden..

i dont mind honeybees :) they are cute... i just HATE hornets...:(

im sure they are migrating.. usually there wouldnt be ANY bees out now.. there mite be the odd half-pissed bumble bee.. but not THAT MANY honeybees.. not this early..

I NEED TO FIND A WAY TO NOTIFY THESE PEOPLE... ANYONE?!?

[FreeVenice]

Global Warming!!!. . . lol, always wanted to blam that. . .

[Abattoir Dream]

lol it is man... for sure.. they are coming to europe...

[rebgirl420]

Holy crap, I saw this on FOX. I hate bees......in the summer they get so big and fuzzy we hit them with tennis rackets..

[Abattoir Dream]

hahaha... i did that the other day, there were so many and they were mating too, i had to get my weed plants somehow.. so i got a badminton racket and whopped a couple...lol it was quite harsh..

[rebgirl420]

Bees piss me off...

[Abattoir Dream]

Bees piss me off...

lol nah.. honey-bees are okay, bumble-bees are great...:) wasps are little shits...(they hackle me for beer worse than my friends lol) and hornets are just not to be fucked with... lol theres a video of like, 30 giant hornets, and they rip straight through a nest of 30,000 honeybees in minutes... its nasty...

mosquitos are much worse than bees.. yukky little things..

Do you get Horseflies in america...? I HATE horseflies...lol

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[afghooey]

Bees piss me off...

Bees are pretty fuggin' annoying... but I somehow think starvation might be worse. :P Maybe that's just me...

[rebgirl420]

Yeah we have horseflies. Luckily Ive only been bitten by one once. but damn did it hurt!

[ballllin]

horseflies bite???
they just look disgusting and make me feel gross

[Purple Banana]

YouTube - Japanese giant hornet vs. European honey bee clip (http://youtube.com/watch?v=zvVORX64D8o)

Bees vs hornets

[Abattoir Dream]

Yeah we have horseflies. Luckily Ive only been bitten by one once. but damn did it hurt!


i know... lol i got bit on the arm when i was little, (i didnt know it was a horsefly) so i kept scratchin it... obviously with a horsefly bite the more you scratch the more they itch... i got home and my arm was bright red, swollen up and rock solid... i was only about 6.. it felt like my arm was on fire, it literally just went rock hard, like i was tensing all the muscles in one arm, and it was literally bright red...

that was hell for me... i spent a week of my summer holidays doing nothing but sitting in pain...

now i just HATE those little bastards, last time a saw one we were all sat on a bridge by a river skinnin up, and one flew right onto my hand while i was doin it... needless to say i was up in seconds, i dropped the L-plate on the floor and just jumped off the bridge, the second my feet hit the bottom of the river i just ran as hard as i could away from the bridge..

i dont know what it is... ill hold a honeybee in my hand.. but a horsefly...no fucking way....

hey, purple banana... have you seen it when hornets go for the japanese honeybees? they are pretty much the same little bees, but they signal to each other, and when the time is rite they all jump the hornet together, then they start buzzing and warming up really hot, they get it to temperatures one degree to hot for the hornet, and one degree under whats too hot for honeybees... they basically burn it alive... how ghetto is that?

[rebgirl420]

again...bees suck

[Specialty Cakes]

its crazy, I THINK I KNOW WHATS GOIN ON!!!

they said they have no idea whats happenin to them, well.. i think i do..

THEY ARE MIGRATING!!!


TO ENGLAND!!!

lol i swear they are, the past few days there have been LOADS of bees in my back garden, like yesturday, i went outside, and theres 3 pairs of honeybee's mating, and about another 5-6 dotted around the garden..

i dont mind honeybees :) they are cute... i just HATE hornets...:(

im sure they are migrating.. usually there wouldnt be ANY bees out now.. there mite be the odd half-pissed bumble bee.. but not THAT MANY honeybees.. not this early..

I NEED TO FIND A WAY TO NOTIFY THESE PEOPLE... ANYONE?!?


I'd LOVE to see the giant cloud of bumblebees droning across the atlantic...

[Purple Banana]

hey, purple banana... have you seen it when hornets go for the japanese honeybees? they are pretty much the same little bees, but they signal to each other, and when the time is rite they all jump the hornet together, then they start buzzing and warming up really hot, they get it to temperatures one degree to hot for the hornet, and one degree under whats too hot for honeybees... they basically burn it alive... how ghetto is that?

Never seen it, but I think that'd be really cool to see. We don't get japanese honeybees over here.

That sucks about the horsefly thing- when I used to lifeguard, they'd bite me, and I'd get stung by bees- the horseflies hurt WAAAY more.

[Abattoir Dream]

I'd LOVE to see the giant cloud of bumblebees droning across the atlantic...

hahaha... id probably stay well away from that....


YouTube - Japanese honeybees (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp72gXkYJIw) < japanese bees...

[Inferius]

AWESOME!

[Abattoir Dream]

inferius... longtime no see? where u been?

or have you been here all along? and im just being a 'tard..?

[Inferius]

The thing that sits behind this keyboard comes and goes.
Similar to a... honey bee. ;)

[Inferius]

:) Ohh bother.

[Abattoir Dream]

lol fair doos man ;)

[Abattoir Dream]

WOOT!

my Damsel fly larvea hatched yesturday... :D its a pretty little guy...:)

theres a thread about it in the grow lounge if ya wanna see more...;)

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