Φοβοῦ τοὺς Δαναοὺς καὶ δῶρα φέροντας

Oh, sorry, I thought this was the Greek section.

The bee rapture is upon us

GoDawgs!: shiat, I read that as "beer rapture" and got worried.

I don't know about you, but I intend to get a good buzz on.

Meh...15 years ago, Killer Bees were going to be the end of America. Now, they're some scientists upset because there aren't enough bees. Kind of like the Global Cooling to Global Warming thing. Maybe they'll start calling Accelerated Bee Population Change.

Good lord, you're a weak dick.

meshman: "mile upon mile of wild blueberries were in bloom just waiting to be pollinated."Too bad there's nothing else that will pollinate them. Going by this story our entire food supply should collapse next year. Quick, buy more newspapers.

It's a story that's been going on over the past year and people's response is, "Oh, how strange." and don't really think about it after that. What's left to pollinate is wild bees, bumblebees, and some varietys of pollinating wasps and moths. All of which don't quite exist in the vast numbers that the domesticated bees did as used by commercial fruit growers. The North American fruit and vegetable industry may be in serious trouble. Berries and orchard fruits may get rather expensive.

space_cadet_28: Go to montreal. They attacked me everywhere i went. (they hang around the trash cans)

Those are common hornets. Those little mofos don't pollinate anything, they just eat garbage and try to attack helpless passersbys. Not as bad as yellowjackets, those little biatches all will try to attack you at once if you swat just one.

When you have a bee go into your ear when you're 16,
and you have to get mineral oil poured into your ear to drown the bee,
and a doctor extracts HALF of the dead bee from your ear,
and the other half comes out on its own a couple of weeks later covered in earwax,
you really don't see the loss of all the bees in the world as a negative.

/just sayin'

Good f*cking riddance. I don't even care about the crops, if it means no more bees.