I would love to watch a good documentary on this and learn more...too tired lately to read everything!
Disclaimer - I haven't seen it, but I've heard a few buggy folks say that Queen of the Sun was pretty well done, even if it did stray to the new-agey end of the discussion. I think it's still running festival circuits, though, not out on DVD yet.
I just watched the Bee Movie with my daughter. I find it funny that even though I am reasonably aware of things that are going on in the world, including the bee issues, that the movie actually gave me a lot of insight into what the consequences would be.
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I realize this thread is old but Dougloas Coupland wrote a book about bees being extinct in the future.
Generation A:
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In the near future bees are extinct—until one autumn when five unconnected individuals, in Iowa, New Zealand, Paris, Ontario, and Sri Lanka, are stung. Immediately snatched up by ominous figures in hazmat suits, interrogated separately in neutral Ikea-like chambers, and then released as 15-minute-celebrities into a world driven almost entirely by the internet, these five unforgettable people endure a barrage of unusual and highly 21st-century circumstances. A charismatic scientist with dubious motives eventually brings the quintet together on a remote Canadian island. But their shared experience unites them in a way they could never have imagined. Generation A mirrors the structure of 1991’s Generation X as it champions the act of reading and storytelling as one of the few defenses we still have against the constant bombardment of the senses in a digital world.
I think if we genetically created maybe 10 bee's 75 feet tall with a 200 foot wingspan and the IQ of a 6 year old we wouldn't need to worry about these piddly a$$ tiny bee's.
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I was at a bee farm this summer and I asked them about this and the girl at the farm said that in the last year or so bee populations have recovered quite a bit.
The latest issue of National Geographic magazine has an article about Jamestown and the transformation of the North American ecosystem after the English landed in 1607. Honeybees were introduced to North America by them. I guess we can just go back to whatever they were eating here before then.
That will work fine once 9/10's of us die of starvation, hopefully I can avoid the whole canibalization stage that we get to go through before equalibrium sets in.
After that its back to living in tents and eating gophers.
Several reports have documented the disappearance of bumblebees in Europe and Asia, but no one had done a large national study in the Americas.
Cameron’s team did a three-year study of 382 sites in 40 states and also looked at more than 73,000 museum records.
“We show that the relative abundance of four species have declined by up to 96% and that their surveyed geographic ranges have contracted by 23% to 87%,” they wrote.
it is all very concerning, particularly when bumblebees that are in traditionally non agricultural areas are suffering. why would high tundra bees decline?
it is a big deal.
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Future historians will celebrate June 24, 2024 as the date when the timeline corrected itself.
I just came across this article about a leaked document that shows the EPA approved a pesticide made by Bayer CropScience called clothianidin, despite testing showing it was toxic to "pollinators" including bees.
I just came across this article about a leaked document that shows the EPA approved a pesticide made by Bayer CropScience called clothianidin, despite testing showing it was toxic to "pollinators" including bees.
