Current Events > Bees are bouncing back from Colony Collapse Disorder! Hurray!

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-01/good-news-for-bees-as-numbers-recover-while-mystery-malady-wanes

everything is fine

what

Colony Collapse hysteria in a nutshell:
"OMG! Insecticides are killing all the bees!"
"Oh, it's a tiny mite causing it instead. But - insecticides!!!!"

I like how it's still called a "mystery malady"

Monsanto and other companies are spraying shit on plants and we've known that's the issue for over 10 years now.
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Etherealfare posted...

I like how it's still called a "mystery malady"

Monsanto and other companies are spraying shit on plants and we've known that's the issue for over 10 years now.

oh is this the part where leftists start spreading conspiracy theories about monsanto and gmos?

Etherealfare posted...

Monsanto and other companies are spraying shit on plants and we've known that's the issue for over 10 years now.

Monsanto and other companies have been spraying shit on plants for about a hundred years. Colony Collapse is just a bit more recent than that.

Does this mean Bee Movie 2 is finally happening?
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*sweet guitar riff*
The bees are back in town (the bees are back in town)
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Yes, they're coming back.

For revenge.

wow you're really sensitive and emotional, bro

Questionmarktarius posted...

Etherealfare posted...

Monsanto and other companies are spraying shit on plants and we've known that's the issue for over 10 years now.

Monsanto and other companies have been spraying shit on plants for about a hundred years. Colony Collapse is just a bit more recent than that.

It's as if newer sprays have been developed since 1917 in the last 100 years or something.

Shut up.

I have no problem with you people's sarcasm...but sarcasm that is not only blatantly wrong, but about an issue that is like...beyond a shadow-of-a-doubt we know what the issue is...wat.
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Transcendentia posted...

wow you're really sensitive and emotional, bro

And you're really wrong, bro.
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Etherealfare posted...

beyond a shadow-of-a-doubt we know what the issue is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varroa_destructor

No, I'm actually not bro. Tell me where the genetically modified corn touched you. Show me on the doll.

Transcendentia posted...

No, I'm actually not bro. Tell me where the genetically modified corn touched you. Show me on the doll.

don't you have to be sucking off your wax statue of elon musk or something?
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Etherealfare posted...

Transcendentia posted...

wow you're really sensitive and emotional, bro

And you're really wrong, bro.

I'm sorry, it appears you're talking to a conservative. Might I recommend a brick wall instead? Same thing in essence, but a bit easier on the psyche.
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lmfao at this pack of leftists spouting alex jones conspiracies about genetically modified corn

Etherealfare posted...

Clothianidin has already been banned by Germany, France, Italy, and Slovenia for its toxic effects. So why won’t the EPA follow? The answer probably has something to do with the American affinity for corn products. But without honey bees, our entire food supply is in trouble.

Not banned yet, but bees are recovering anyway.
Hmmm....

There's a much more effective method of preventing cornworms anyway: http://homeguides.sfgate.com/mineral-oil-corn-earworms-39677.html

Twinmold posted...

Etherealfare posted...

Transcendentia posted...

wow you're really sensitive and emotional, bro

And you're really wrong, bro.

I'm sorry, it appears you're talking to a conservative. Might I recommend a brick wall instead? Same thing in essence, but a bit easier on the psyche.

indeed

Questionmarktarius posted...

Etherealfare posted...

Clothianidin has already been banned by Germany, France, Italy, and Slovenia for its toxic effects. So why won’t the EPA follow? The answer probably has something to do with the American affinity for corn products. But without honey bees, our entire food supply is in trouble.

Not banned yet, but bees are recovering anyway.
Hmmm....

There's a much more effective method of preventing cornworms anyway: http://homeguides.sfgate.com/mineral-oil-corn-earworms-39677.html

Bro, Monsanto is evil! That genetically modified banana is going to kill humanity!!!

Omnislasher posted...

Twinmold posted...

Etherealfare posted...

Transcendentia posted...

wow you're really sensitive and emotional, bro

And you're really wrong, bro.

I'm sorry, it appears you're talking to a conservative. Might I recommend a brick wall instead? Same thing in essence, but a bit easier on the psyche.

indeed

should've known you lot have a very fragile psyche that can't support having your opinions challenged by facts lmfao

Questionmarktarius posted...

Etherealfare posted...

Clothianidin has already been banned by Germany, France, Italy, and Slovenia for its toxic effects. So why won’t the EPA follow? The answer probably has something to do with the American affinity for corn products. But without honey bees, our entire food supply is in trouble.

Not banned yet, but bees are recovering anyway.
Hmmm....

There's a much more effective method of preventing cornworms anyway: http://homeguides.sfgate.com/mineral-oil-corn-earworms-39677.html

It has been banned. States are being left to ban it, because the EPA is paid-off (as the article says...did you read it?)

More than 20 states out of the 50 have banned it.
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Fuck yeah need them bees
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It's hip to fuck bees.
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I see now why such dumbass things like not vaccinating your kids actually spreads and becomes a real thing that people buy into.

When there are people like TC in the world, calling perfectly viable and indisputable science a "leftist conspiracy theory" - what more can you really hope for other than the apocalypse?
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this whole bee colony collapse was a passage for the critical reading section on my pcat recently

Its not a drug that is most effective because the mites causing the colony collapse have started becoming immune to it. what is really effective is a fungal spore that is harmless to the bees, but deadly to the mites. and the bees natural reaction to a foreign object within the hive is to attempt to remove it, but doing that with a fungus ends up spreading the spores
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Etherealfare posted...

More than 20 states out of the 50 have banned it.

Then we should see a direct correlation between state bans and state hives.

(as the article says...did you read it?)

Where? There's no mention of state-level bans in the article, whatsoever.

Transcendentia posted...

alex jones

Did you just compare leftists to your god

Did I miss something here

have right wing people stopped pleasuring themselves to the thought Alex Jones penetrating them
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Then we should see a direct correlation between state bans and state hives.

"States and countries have banned it"

"Then we should see a correlation between said bans and more hives popping up!!"

*Quite literally In a topic posted about more hives popping up*

Like...what? IT'S THE POINT OF THIS ENTIRE TOPIC!
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XD

*Comes in a topic about more hives popping up*

"Oh yeah!? Well then we'd see discussion about more hives popping up!!!! Hey, what's this topic about anyhow???"
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Etherealfare posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

Then we should see a direct correlation between state bans and state hives.

"States and countries have banned it"

"Then we should see a correlation between said bans and more hives popping up!!"

*Quite literally In a topic posted about more hives popping up*

Like...what? IT'S THE POINT OF THIS ENTIRE TOPIC!

URL for a published study correlating bee recovery in ban-affected states, versus stagnation or decline in a control, please.

hey Etherealfare do you think that there'd be more bees if we got rid of the genetically modified turnips out there?

Lastly, just to finish you off:


(as the article says...did you read it?)


Where? There's no mention of state-level bans in the article, whatsoever.


*my* article about Oregon finding 25,000 dead bees in a parking lot in 2013 and banning it shortly thereafter. Not the TC's article about more bees popping up

I already posted Article 1 about them FINDING the bees dead. If you're asking for the article about the state BANNING it, here you go:

http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2015/02/oregon_bans_use_of_bee-killing.html
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Etherealfare posted...

http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2015/02/oregon_bans_use_of_bee-killing.html

Thank you.

Now, because you seem to have an exuberant interest in the issue, help me out with this also, please:

As evidence tying neonicotinoids to colony collapse disorder mounts

That is great news!
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shockthemonkey posted...

My girlfriend keeps bees both at home and at the organic farm she works at. She's had colonies collapse due to mites.

are you sure it wasn't monsanto's genetically modified strawberries?

Transcendentia posted...

hey Etherealfare do you think that there'd be more bees if we got rid of the genetically modified turnips out there?

No. But I think Liberals that buy into the whole "GMO is awful" thing is both selfish and stupid.

Genetically Modified food helps feed Africa. It helps make food cheaper, more resistant, and gives higher yields. You'd have to be a massive dick, or a weird tree-hugger, to be against such things.
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Okay, again, everytime you take what I am saying about the SPRAY being the issue, and claim that it is because of GMO strawberries, you're making yourself look stupid - and also using a strawman that nobody in here claimed.
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Etherealfare posted...

Transcendentia posted...

hey Etherealfare do you think that there'd be more bees if we got rid of the genetically modified turnips out there?

No. But I think Liberals that buy into the whole "GMO is awful" thing is both selfish and stupid.

Genetically Modified food helps feed Africa. It helps make food cheaper, more resistant, and gives higher yields. You'd have to be a massive dick, or a weird tree-hugger, to be against such things.

b-b-but monsanto

wait

the bees were dying because of a mite and not climate change?!?!
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darkphoenix181 posted...

wait

the bees were dying because of a mite and not climate change?!?!

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m-m-monsanto is behind those mutated global warming mites! their genetically modified turnips are evil!!!

Etherealfare posted...

Genetically Modified food helps feed Africa. It helps make food cheaper, more resistant, and gives higher yields. You'd have to be a massive dick, or a weird tree-hugger, to be against such things.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice