Bee's everwhere going missing . Mass extinction event ?

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Not sure I buy the mobile phone theory. Surely that would result in a gradual decline in bee numbers rather than the sudden drop. It's not as if mobile phones have only appeared in the past year.
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Im fucked if Im gonna let monsanto steal ma bees
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IanRedpoint wrote:Not sure I buy the mobile phone theory. Surely that would result in a gradual decline in bee numbers rather than the sudden drop. It's not as if mobile phones have only appeared in the past year.
Good point, good point.
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silo flame wrote:sounds like a south park episode
it really does, with Randy running through the streets shooting this :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Post by justin »

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!


The bees are back !

they were just all chillin in my den . all 500 million .


But seriously .. A world with out bee vomit (mmm precious bee vomit ) is a world like one without the toilet snorkel .And thats a world i don't want to live in !!!

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Boards of Canada better release a few albums before 2012...
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six-five-two wrote:Boards of Canada better release a few albums before 2012...
exactly what I was thinking :cry:
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I read this a few days ago and was beginning to think I'd imagined it. Apparently not:

http://environment.guardian.co.uk/conse ... 67,00.html
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A friend of mine is a bee-keeper.. I've seen them the other week and it all looked good for as far as I can judge it. I haven't heard him about it but I shall ask what he knows about it. He is the expert so he should know I guess..
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Infinite E wrote:You're exactly right, straight out of a disturbing sci-fi movie :?
"Children of Bees."
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I love bees.
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Bees are awesome to watch.
If I see some bees, I just stop, get real close and watch them. If you don't annoy them, they'll be perfectly fine with you around them. :D
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The Telepathic Kid wrote:Bees are awesome to watch.
If I see some bees, I just stop, get real close and watch them. If you don't annoy them, they'll be perfectly fine with you around them. :D
If you're careful, you can even stroke them.

Bee-fact of the day.
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I've been stung by bees before and it was no big deal. But last summer I was reading one of my routes for work and must've stepped on a hornets nest or something. I got stung in my leg and I never felt anything that painful from an insect sting beore. It felt like I got bit by a pit bull. I looked down at my leg and half of he fuckers body was still in my leg, stinger and all! I still have a scar from it.
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Post by bleak. »

really interesting topic...

i have noticed fewer bees in the past two or three years, let alone currently...

i'm petrified of the things...the last one i saw tried to escape my bedroom, failed then dropped to the floor...thinking it was dead i tried removing it but it suddenly woke up again...

hmm. x
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Looked for a topic about extinction and man's part in it and this was the closest I could find.

Thought-provoking article in The Guardian a couple of weeks ago, Just caught up with it.

'Is this all humans are? Diminutive monsters of death and destruction? New research suggests that there was never a state of grace. We have always been the nemesis of the planet's wildlife.

You want to know who we are? Really? You think you do, but you will regret it. This article, if you have any love for the world, will inject you with a venom – a soul-scraping sadness – without an obvious antidote...'
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I'll just leave this here.
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There's an inevitable ending for a civilisation that considers parts of nature and ecosystems to be 'optional'.
Its tragic that a society where the economic buzz-word is 'efficiency', can't see the folly in replacing much the delivery systems of our basic needs, fine tuned by billions of years of planetary evolution, with 'technology'.
No doubt there's folks working away on some sort of large scale artificial pollination technology which can then be sold at profit.
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