Bee Worried

[houseisland]

There's no real need to be worried if you think you can live exclusively on a diet of wind-pollinated crops such cereals: wheat, rice, corn, etc.

If you want fruits, nuts, and vegetables, then just maybe you should start to worry a little and sooner rather than later.




Nature: Silence of the Bees

Wikipedia: Colony Collapse Disorder

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[Ferrit]

A very real concern.
I don't mind seeing the yellow jackets disappear some.
http://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/ent...s/ef411yja.gif
Seems like these guys are always cranky and just looking for an excuse to sting you
But the honey bees are very cool and gentle
http://honeybee.tamu.edu/local_image...llifera_sm.jpg
Their golden brown color is striking and they just want to be left alone.

[Guts3d]

!!! I can't live without veggies! I'm agreed with Ferrit about ^%$#@! yellowjackets, but as he stated, honey bees mind their own business.

[Niclo Iste]

Yes this has scared me too. Most people don't understand the big issue with it but I can see the long term ramifications of this. However you Okies out there will agree with me when I say I hope this happens to the RED WASPS.

[xpuser357]

Hornets too. When in California you saw yellow wasps on roof eaves
(overhangs). Here in missouri they are in ground. dragged hose across
grassy area and pissed off a whole Battalion. thank the great above I had
a escape route. I may be mistaken on color I believe they were red
Bees are not aggresive. Hopefully researchers will find the problem and maybe fix it.

[houseisland]

BBC: Bees seeking 'sugary' garden pest

"A lack of suitable flowers may be forcing bumblebees to seek out aphids to feed on their sugary secretions."

"Three species are extinct in the UK and many more are threatened."

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It is my pure and virtuous heart that
gives me the strength of ten!