Are bees committing suicide?
It is no secret that certain species of bees are in danger of becoming extinct. The honey bee is one of these varieties. They are very important to our ecological balance and apparently scientists are studying the reasons why this is happening.
They have theories that suggest its due to climatic changes, global warming, bee viruses, contamination, bee poachers, bee fight nights and who knows what else. I was talking about bees with my daughter yesterday and since she works with a beekeeper I asked her if she knew what his theory was. She reiterated that her beekeepers bees are not dying because they get to take the winter off. She further elaborated by stating that the bee keepers in some countries (namely those ones where they are having bee extinction problems) feed their honey bees corn syrup and work them 12 months a year without a break. She said that feeding a bee corn syrup is like giving a 2 year old a red bull. The bees are super hyper-active and the stress of working 12 months a year on red-bull is driving them to leave the hive and go off and die from pure exhaustion.
Sounds like bee suicide to me. I find it interesting that in all the articles about bees I have seen not one of them mentions that the bees might just be fed up and tired of working in bee sweatshops.
Heres a good website that gives a pretty comprehensible over view of bees, but more importantly has some great links at the bottom to more bee information.
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I’ve read an article or two on this bee suicide phenom…it seems the scientists don’t have any ONE definite reason for the loss of colonies so Lan’s theory seems as sound as any i’ve read, that corn syrup angle makes a lot of sense, maybe the bees have become like meth heads, sippin on some sizzurp, buzzed out for months until they have little heart attacks and fall to the ground….twitching
(0 points)Sounds like a sound theory to me! Tiny bee sweatshops………lol funny but not funny
(388 points)I keep picturing tiny lil bees slaving over sewing machines.
I only kill bees that chase me. Last summer I had this HUUUGE bee hive in one of my front yard trees. I am sad for the bees. LMAO christie!! meth bees LOL
(0 points)TWITCHERS!
maybe winnie the pooh is responsible?
(388 points)its already confirmed scientific fact that certain types of insecticides are the culprits behind the massive bee die offs.
The rest of the theories are the kind of theories youd find at the county fair, about the bee die offs, and are being thrown out there to distract the public from the truth so the chemical companies can make a little bit more money on these destructive products.
A lot of countries have already banned the use and sale of these insecticides. Funny thing is I found all this out on one of tags here at ITSA.
Pretty freaky the kind of BS big business will throw out and people will swallow. America is quickly becoming a third world country because of how gullible the fast majority of americans are.
Anyhow…
(104 points)Oh and YES, we will die if the honey bee dies. Believe it. They are the sole means of reproduction MANY plants have. We lose them we lose an enormous chunk of our eco-system and it crashes and burns. And so do we.
The insecticides are produced by pharmacudical companies, and you know they have the power to run a scam like this.
Google Bee death by Bayer insecticide.
(104 points)here is a list of foods we’d lose without bees.
(104 points)I remember when i was little there was always a jar of honey that sat on the shelf at our gramma’s house, i suppose it was up high like that to keep us kids from sticking our paws in it like winnie the pooh, but i thought that the honey looked so beautiful when the sun shone through the glass jar, it lit up like a beautiful golden jewel, then i heard that bees made honey out of their butts from some kid at sunday school and after that i could never look at that jar the same, it seemed to me that the honey was the color of bee urine after that, and even now as a grown-up i still think of BEE PEE PEE whenever i use honey….here is an interesting fact about honey: Honey dates back for 150 million years. Honey is written about in hieroglyphics. Egyptians would used honey as a form of payment, like the Aztecs used cocoa beans (mentioned in another article of mine). Honey was fed to their sacred animals. It was often offered as a tribute to the gods.
(0 points)I’ve decided i’m going to invest heavily in honey because if the bees die off honey will become extremely rare!! RARER THAN DIAMONDS AND PEARLS!! and then i will be RICH RICH RICH!! Honey will be worth more than gold!! Honey will be like liquid gold only worth more than liquid gold!! I AM GONNA BE SOOOOO FILTHY STICKY RICH!! unless they figure out a way to make synthetic honey, just like they make synthetic diamonds and pearls, and some synthetic foods and jewels are already becoming more popular than natural foods and jewels, OMG what if they already have made synthetic honey?? hmmmm nevermind, i knew my GET RICH dream was too good to be true anyway.
(0 points)Rapeseed Brassica napus
Damn, now i’ll never get laid without the rapeseed.
God save the Queen (bee).
(0 points)Just had a massive suicide/homicide yesterday in my backyard. I’m in sunny Southern California and have a back wall where they’ve built hives in the past. Saturday there was an extraordinary amount of swarming going on. They stung my dog twice before they all (thousands of them) decided to take a header into the pool. This morning the bottom of the pool was covered wall to wall with bee carcasas. The bees by the wall were simply piled about 5 inches high in a neat pile. Very weird!
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