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bees are dying: wikipedia on CCD

please discuss possible causes, ramifications, and mitigating actions. is it even real or is it just a media frenzy?

― lfam, Sunday, 15 April 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

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― lfam, Sunday, 15 April 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/5903/nailbiteio6.gif

― lfam, Sunday, 15 April 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

Maria started a thread about this awhile ago. I forget if ilx solved the mystery.

― Beth Parker, Sunday, 15 April 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

every time you sexy text, god kills a bee

― ^@^, Sunday, 15 April 2007 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

thought this said 'colon collapse disorder'

― and what, Sunday, 15 April 2007 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

the answer is we're all gonna die

― gabbneb, Sunday, 15 April 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

I think it's my dog eating them all.

― Abbott, Sunday, 15 April 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

gabbneb otm, humankind is telephoning its way to end times

― ^@^, Sunday, 15 April 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

no, we'll just use super 'africanized' killer bees for everything. they're tough! and if we all have to wear beekeeper hats and heavy canvas when we go out, well, so what?

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Monday, 16 April 2007 09:06 (eighteen years ago)

They've realized that colonies and queens are passé and they'll be back with something new and a president.

― StanM, Monday, 16 April 2007 09:08 (eighteen years ago)

OMG

"We selected Bank of America Business Capital to lead this transaction because of the success we've had working together on a number of deals," said Bumble Bee president and CEO Christopher D. Lischewski.

― StanM, Monday, 16 April 2007 09:13 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah this is weird. It seems like some kind of bee AIDS.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:57 (eighteen years ago)

anyone who has ever thought they were the bee's knees should be considered a suspect.

― estela, Monday, 16 April 2007 11:16 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe it's the Hive-mind version of a mental breakdown.

― Stone Monkey, Monday, 16 April 2007 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

Seriously, I have heard it suggested that the genetically modified (GMO) crops, which carry spliced-in genes that cause them to create thier own insecticide, may be behind this situation. Bees, after all, are insects and they've never had to cope with GMO crops until quite recently.

Seems worth investigating, muy pronto.

― Aimless, Monday, 16 April 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

every time you sexy text, god kills a bee

haha

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife/article2449968.ece

(not sure what I think of this theory quite yet, but here it is)

― Milton Parker, Monday, 16 April 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

sad fat bee to thread.

― teeny, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

My dog found a whole manwhole full of bees and tried to eat all of them. He was torpeedoing through them, trying to catch them in some kind of crazy death spin like a baby alligator, chomping as many as he could. he must have eaten at least 25 bees. It was so surreal I couldn't bring myself to drag him away from it until about 10 minutes after it started.

He's really insanely good at finding bees with his powerful basset senses. I think he could track all the missing bees, but then there's a potential he'd try to eat them all. So.

― Abbott, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.behindthelyrics.com/serendipity/uploads/BTL-BeeGirl.jpg

― schwantz, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

Abbott, keep a close eye on him, or else he's going to turn into one of these: http://www.beedogs.com/

― StanM, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

Oh no! He'd have to eat himself alive!

He also likes to eat flies, wasps, and butterflies. BRUNDLEPUP.

― Abbott, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

"bee AIDS"

!!

― ^@^, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

This is one of the many current news items that sounds like something out of a J.G. Ballard short story.

This one about the nwq primeval ocean is another one that reminds me of J.G. Ballard

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/oceans/la-me-ocean30jul30,0,6670018,full.story

― earlnash, Monday, 16 April 2007 23:46 (eighteen years ago)

― NickB, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 08:00 (eighteen years ago)

lots of updating here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/23/42210/9088

― gabbneb, Monday, 23 April 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

Perhaps Zim has begun his war against.. the bees!

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 23 April 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

countdown to dailykos story connecting bees and halliburton

― lfam, Monday, 23 April 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

That's not a bee, that's a bear in a bee suit!

― Abbott, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

new factoid hiding on the wikipedia page, posting this update here as I posted a link to the Independent story upthread

In April 2007, news of this study began appearing in major media; at least one article, in The Independent, stated that the subject of the study was "mobile phones",[6] a term usually used to refer to cellular phones. Cellular phones were in fact not covered in the study, and the researchers have since emphatically disavowed any connection between their research, cellphones, and CCD, specifically indicating the aforementioned article in The Independent as misinterpreting their results and creating "a horror story"[39].

― Milton Parker, Monday, 23 April 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

maybe the bees are tired of living

― lfam, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

jesus, that article about the ocean is terrifying

― bernard snowy, Monday, 23 April 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

The few photos of basset hound bees i've seen make them look non-plussed with the situation.

― kingfish, Monday, 23 April 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

if only we had done the right thing and sacrificed Nic Cage to the Wicker Man...

― latebloomer, Monday, 23 April 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

Ed was right. I blame women Morris dancers! It is the end times.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 09:13 (eighteen years ago)

oh this isn't a goatse thread

― ken c, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/abfab/images/designgallery/bubblebee.jpg

― the table is the table, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

oh god, that bees scene with nic cage is one of the funniest things ever.

― the table is the table, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

four years pass...

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/2012-releases/colony-collapse-disorder-pesticide.html

Lu and his co-authors hypothesized that the uptick in CCD resulted from the presence of imidacloprid, a neonicotinoid introduced in the early 1990s. Bees can be exposed in two ways: through nectar from plants or through high-fructose corn syrup beekeepers use to feed their bees. (Since most U.S.-grown corn has been treated with imidacloprid since 2005, it’s also found in corn syrup.)

― dayo, Saturday, 7 April 2012 18:57 (thirteen years ago)

lolling at honey that's made from high fructose corn syrup tbh.

― dayo, Saturday, 7 April 2012 18:57 (thirteen years ago)

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