Alert! Bees are mysteriously disapearing!
The bees leave the nest and don't come back, leaving the larvae to fend for themselves until eventually the queen is left all by herself.
Adding to the mystery: after the bees have gone, other animals like moths don't come to steal the honey. Nodoby can figure out why this is happening but it
it is happening in several countries of the world simoultaneously. Canada too. Some people think it's cell phones. Others pesticides, or maybe a fungus.
Einstien: If the bee disapeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left."
what year is this?
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Bees
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yeah, the bees. further signs of trouble.
The Bees, sequel to The Birds, only this time instead of attacking everyone they just disappear, and humanity is even more screwed.
heh. no doubt.
i was reading today about the vast amount of plants that we eat that require pollenation from bees--
apples, walnuts, grapes, soybeans, etc etc etc.
It's over for us.
All we do is consume.
Think about the wholesale changes that will be required for us to turn this ship around!
Most of us don't have it in us; too worried about meeting our immediate needs, too worried about climbing some form of ladder.
It's over I tell you, it's over!
i picture carlos and i, in a few years, wearing long robes and standing on streetcorners with signs saying: "THE END IS NEAR!"
but yeah... as churchill, i think, said, there's the age of taking (his age, he admitted), and then the age of consequences that will follow.
lucky us, eh?
On a side note, I was watching cbc the other night and they featured a story about these tiny beetles, about the size of a piece of rice that are killing all the lodgepole pines in BC. Apparently, because of the longer hotter summers, these beetles are reproducing way more than they used to and you can see clouds of them around the trees.
They burrow into the trunks eating the wood and consequently produce mists of sawdust. Once inside the tree they secrete a fungus substance that obstructs water to the tree and kills it.
You can see the dead, red colored trees for miles (I actually noticed this a few years ago when I went on a roadtrip across BC a few years ago and wondered why the hell there were no green trees).
So, this massive area of dead trees is a crazy fire hazard and the only way to prevent the fires it to bascially clear cut large areas of boreal forest.
Anyway, they anticipate these beetles spreading east and potentially destroying our forests which is a HUGE problem, on so many levels.
Pretty crazy. Man, we need you treeplanters more than ever.
yeah... the beetles are in ontario, too, but to a lesser degree, and you see the same effect.
it's crazy-- clear cut/dying forest/clearcut/dying forest, etc.
doomed, i tells ya, we're doomed!
unless, of course, we miraculously produced wholesale changes almost overnight.
Yeah so, what are we going to do about it? My biggest challenge right now is quitting smoking and I know that even if I accomplish that the world will be no better because of it. I'm so apathetic.
way to go Anita.
Your world will be better when you quit and that is worth something.?
(okay, quite obviously I'm having a mary poppins moment, did I mention you should try a spoonful of sugar...,) But seriously I think that's awesome since I had quit for two years while preggers and breast feeding and then boom, after the last suck...I started up again. sigh.
Anyhow, have any of you checked out some of the work of winnipeger Agnetha Dyck. She is not new, but new to me in the last few years. Apparently, she is taking the art and science community by storm with her work on/with/about bees?
Can wasps do what bees do? There was no shortage of wasps last year.
Maybe we can train mosquitos to pollenate, or clone them with bees or something. The has to be a biological solution to all this(which will lead to an equally horrible disaster)
Aganetha's work is very fascinating, it also makes me think of Mathew Barney. He uses wax and polyurethane and his stuff has an insectoid quality.
She did the meat dress too, right? She's fabulous.
Scary times, epidemics, diseases, extinctions, the world turns. Maybe we'll find bees on a new planet. Abandon ship! Abandon ship! I hope not.
Wasps are omnivores (eat insects but are part time nectar eaters too, so they pollenate but their sleek bodies do not attract as much pollen). Bees are vegetarians and have hairy bodies, more pollenation opportunities and attract more pollen (that's what the hair is for). Also, did you know that most bee species don't make honey?
did you know the human head weighs eight pounds?
did you know that dogth and beeth can thmell fear?
lmao
:)
I just got excited about researching some nifty new bee info...I'm such a nerd.
Hey Carlos, why don't you shut up? LOL
It's over for us.
(speak for yourself, I'm just getting started)
All we do is consume.
(not true we also produce relentlessly)
Think about the wholesale changes that will be required for us to turn this ship around!
(Think of the wholesale changes {not to mention scant odds) that were required to make this ship)
Most of us don't have it in us;
(Who know's what's in us? I think it will have to be tested to see our potential, there is no point in speculating) too worried about meeting our immediate needs (Or too worried about having already failed the future), too worried about climbing some form of ladder.
(Even if we are given new ladders, look how desperately good we climb!)
It's over I tell you, it's over!
(Bah, celebrate a new begining, a chance to make things right. The inevitability you speak of may start with destruction, but will lead to something else. Personally I'm not too worried if humans aren't even a part of that new thing, but I suspect they will be, it's too grand a project to scrap, their is still potential)
Also you can quit smoking. You were born a non smoker. Say it to yourself " I was born a non-smoker, it will be nice to be healthy and positive once again {positive cause nicotine affects mood)" . And "the world will change considerably by me not smoking, I will with hold thousands of dollars from a morrally inept company, make less need for a toxic imoral product, pollute the environment less, add positivity and hope to my surroundings. It already feels better"
Also, Einstein might have been a smart dude, but what did he know about the future? Thanks for the A-bomb jackass =o
bee nerds
i mean be
nerds is (n't) the way we
bee
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Quit smoking (better yet quit everything)
sort of like "nobody moves nobody gets hurt" kind of philosophy
although not
really just
bee
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be.
Start everything.
quit nothing.
start living like your lungs matter.
That is a key idea in a lot of the self help books etc. You can't succeed when your being negative, saying "why am I so stupid for smoking"? You need to be positive "I AM a non smoker, and it feels and smells and tastes good to be a nonsmoker like me =) "!
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