Has anyone considered what the decline of the Honeybees is going to do to our food supply?
February 21st, 2009 | by beekeeper |
geekspazfreak asked:
The population on the West Coast is down by 70% and 60% on the East Coast, being tracked and studied by Professional beekeepers. These studies have seen these declining numbers, by recording the bees departure and subsequent return to their nests, or lack thereof. And one very strong suposition is cell phone towers disrupting their ability to succesfully return back to their hives.
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The population on the West Coast is down by 70% and 60% on the East Coast, being tracked and studied by Professional beekeepers. These studies have seen these declining numbers, by recording the bees departure and subsequent return to their nests, or lack thereof. And one very strong suposition is cell phone towers disrupting their ability to succesfully return back to their hives.
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10 Responses to “Has anyone considered what the decline of the Honeybees is going to do to our food supply?”
By Jenn H on Feb 21, 2009 | Reply
I’m sure we’ll survive. They’re just bees! Oh, and have you ever heard of trees? These produce for more oxygen than flowers!!! Bees are not crucial!
By Shon on Feb 21, 2009 | Reply
Yes, and I’m scared. Without them we will lose so many of the crops that provide us food!
By Italianlover17 on Feb 22, 2009 | Reply
yes actually, bee’x pollenate the plants which we get our Oxygen from and without oxygen we die…..face it we need 2 start cleaning up so we dont kill ourself from over pollution
By charles dickens on Feb 22, 2009 | Reply
Cell phone towers? How many honey bees even own a cell phone? You are right to be concerned. Orchards will be wiped out.
By vegansforever on Feb 23, 2009 | Reply
Yes, I think it’s awful. If plants are not pollenated they won’t produce fruit and veggies. People and animals could go hungry. I wish there was something that could be done. God help us. Modern conviences will eventually become the death of us.
By cutiepiecuka.zara on Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
=*( sad I do love honey. But dont they also have bee farms?? it depends on if the bees your talking about are raised or not. Well I dont really know what Im talking about but thats kinda scary.
By mysticduder on Feb 25, 2009 | Reply
There’s been an ongoing decline in the number of wild honeybees for years, but now something is hitting the ones that beekeepers keep. There is a new disease, at least here on the East Coast, that is killing them. I have never heard the cell tower argument or that bees were not returning to the hive. Bees don’t usually go more than 2 miles or so from the hive for food. I doubt the bee decline is attributable to the cell towers.
By rich_again on Feb 28, 2009 | Reply
without bees to pollinate we will lose valuable plant life that is crucial to the survival of the human race. so be kind to bees and do all you can to promote their continued existence. If the pesticides are killing the bees just think what is doing to us.
By Adam L on Mar 2, 2009 | Reply
i dont care. some other bug will probaly do it somethong.
By Quat on Mar 4, 2009 | Reply
Not to worry. Science has already provided the perfect solution decades before we even knew we had a problem. Since 1957 unbridled colonies of artificially Africanized Killer Bees have been spreading inexorably northward from South and Central America.
Soon they will have replaced all European Honeybee colonies in North America. Before long you’ll find them everywhere. The killer bees make far more efficient pollinators than European bees and are much hardier; they will easily survive whatever is wiping out the European bee colonies.
They will save all our crops. But don’t make them angry. You won’t like them when they’re angry.