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Barrett808 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-06-07 05:53 PM Original message |
Virus implicated in bee decline |
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SmokingJacket (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-06-07 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
1. The good news is... |
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krkaufman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-07-07 03:17 PM Response to Reply #1 |
18. I'm not sure that the extinction of native North American honeybees ... |
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SmokingJacket (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-07-07 06:44 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Honeybees are not native to North America. |
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zonkers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-06-07 06:13 PM Response to Original message |
2. This is fascinating. |
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PurpleChez (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-06-07 06:18 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Yes it is. |
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IsItJustMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-06-07 06:29 PM Response to Original message |
4. So goes the honey bees, so goes our food supply. |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-06-07 11:48 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. not true-- only about 1/3 of human agricultural output is insect pollinated.... |
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triguy46 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-06-07 07:01 PM Response to Original message |
5. Explains what happened to my bees 3 years ago... |
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lovuian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-06-07 07:06 PM Response to Original message |
6. Well now that they found |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-06-07 07:49 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Me too... |
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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-06-07 07:58 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. We are hardly "screwed". Honeybees are not native to U.S. There are lots |
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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-08-07 05:25 AM Response to Reply #8 |
21. The problem is that many of our crops aren't native to the US either |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-06-07 11:54 PM Response to Original message |
10. this doesn't surprise me at all.... |
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Lilith Velkor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-07-07 12:37 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. I thought it was the mites |
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Alameda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-07-07 01:52 AM Response to Original message |
12. Praying Mantis? |
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PurpleChez (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-07-07 08:14 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. I've seen one teeny-tiny one. That's all. |
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Alameda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-07-07 12:47 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Praying Mantis |
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PurpleChez (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-07-07 08:40 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Outside Athens, GA, about 60 mi east of Atlanta |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-07-07 06:52 AM Response to Original message |
13. Our garden has been filled with bumble bees doing the work |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-07-07 09:38 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. I'm getting to grow fond of my bumblebees. |
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Olney Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-07-07 07:09 AM Response to Original message |
14. Glad the agent has been identified. Good scientific detective work! |
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