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the_ignored
SFN Addict
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 Posted - 05/03/2010 : 17:29:21
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How much worse? Read this.
They don't really have a clue yet, and a LOT of colonies are going down the tubes.
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>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
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> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
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> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.
What brought that on? this. Original posting here.
Another example of this guy's lunacy here. |
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ThorGoLucky
Snuggle Wolf
USA
1487 Posts |
Posted - 05/03/2010 : 21:47:43 [Permalink]
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 05/04/2010 : 03:08:23 [Permalink]
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Through an apiarist friend, I've been following this for a couple of years. In it's way, this is as serious as the LA oil spill.
Each summer, my son-in-law's garden is a buzzing riot of honey bees, all happily competing for the best of the blossoms, and they seem healthy enough. They are from a wild hive -- I accidentally found it year before last and have told no one where it is. Nor will I, so don't ask.
If we should lose the gentle Italian honey bee, what might take it's place as a pollinator? Africanized bees? No one seems to know how those are faring in this crisis.
Without that major pollinator, there will be no more tailgating at the NASCAR races; no more greasy McNuggets; no more honey-mustard glop to dunk them in.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
1888 Posts |
Posted - 05/04/2010 : 04:35:09 [Permalink]
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"We believe that some subtle interactions between nutrition, pesticide exposure and other stressors are converging to kill colonies," said Jeffery Pettis, of the ARS's bee research laboratory.
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And I read essentially the same thing a couple of years ago in Scientific America article on CCD.
In addition to their work as polinators they are also just fun to watch. I have two plants in my yard that in years past have simply been full of bees, an American Basswood tree (bee tree) and Cat Mint.
It is sad, and disturbing, I also have large patches of clover without a single bee. |
Life is good
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. -Anonymous |
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Bee Hive collapse getting worse.
