Recent News About Bees

Green Faery · **Posted:** 13 Apr 2010 9:03 pm

Thanks Andrew. You got spells, Clarmonde? Bee careful what you wish for, is all I can say!

Hmmm, off topic now... am enjoying the revamped news thread. Although I'm not entirely sure if I would put quote marks around the pope's "crimes against humanity" – as a crime against humanity is just that and requires no further grammatical tarting. But 'New Takeaway from Last Supper' is just genius! :wink:

Andrew Gough · **Joined:** 17 Sep 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 874

Hee hee. Thanks Green Faery; )

I think you are the only one who has noticed lol

Thank you!

Andrew

Wombat · **Posted:** 16 Apr 2010 3:09 pm

ndawe · **Posted:** 20 Apr 2010 7:39 am

For bee lovers, 17 stunning pictures of pollen -

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/pict ... ollen.html

Green Faery · **Posted:** 21 Apr 2010 11:42 am

Male bees play the field, led astray by female impersonators... who needs a trip to Bangkok anyway? :lol:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8632814.stm

Andrew Gough · **Joined:** 17 Sep 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 874

Very interesting. Thank you Green Faery!

Cheers,

Andy

richard.webster · **Posted:** 18 May 2010 7:45 am

Bee part of it:

The National Trust in the UK has launched a campaign with BBC local radio to introduce new bee colonies, and to raise awareness about the plight of this creature.

Quote:

The National Trust and BBC Local Radio are encouraging people to ‘Bee Part of It!’ this summer through a campaign to help the honey bee.
In the UK alone, the number of honey bee colonies halved between 1985-2005 due to changes in land use, the varroa mite (which sucks the bee’s blood and spreads disease), and cold wet summers.
To help tackle the problem we're introducing 45 new honey bee colonies at locations all around the country. Every hive is being adopted by a BBC Local Radio station, as well as by the BBC in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. They’ll tell the story of their hive across the summer, and BBC Local Radio websites will have everything from key bee facts, to advice on bee-friendly planting at home.
As part of the project, every BBC Local Radio station will be giving away 1,000 packets of bee-friendly wild flower seeds (subject to availability) for listeners to sow in their gardens.

See more here:

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w- ... -of-it.htm

And the various different regions of the BBC all have something on this. Hampshire and bee keeping at Mottisfont Abbey, for example.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/hampshire/h ... 680654.stm

Serendipity · **Joined:** 20 May 2008 3:32 pm **Posts:** 2894

Bees Swarm White House!

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/98075-thousands-of-bees-swarm-white-house

The bees have found the enemy...and they're going in! Attack!

At the head of the bee army was of course...William Wallace Bee....crying FREEDOM!!!!!

richard.webster · **Posted:** 08 Jun 2010 1:04 pm

Some recent good news about bees - the story below describes how the number of hives in the UK has grown from 40,000 in 2007 to 80,000 today, and how in the past two years the honey bee population here is estimated to have increased from 23 billion to 48 billion, thanks in large part to the increase in bee keeping in smaller city centre gardens and allotments, whereas in the past this sort of activity was mainly confined to farms and rural areas. Apart from a growing desire by people to produce their own food, this must also stem from increased awareness about the plight of the bee, and the need to replenish their numbers, and these latest statistics are highly encouraging.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthn ... hives.html

eldarbee · **Joined:** 03 Apr 2010 4:18 pm **Posts:** 1

Just found a couple of articles regarding the origins of ancient bees:

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/08 ... s-20100608

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/06/ancient-bees/

Also this appeared in the Guardian regarding the honeybee collapse:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... rom-behind

Bee well,

deb.

Bethania · **Joined:** 25 Mar 2010 1:36 pm **Posts:** 20

"If bees and other pollinators were to disappear completely, the cost to the UK economy could be up to £440m per year, scientists have warned.

This amounts to about 13% of the country's income from farming."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment/10371300.stm

Green Faery · **Posted:** 22 Jun 2010 4:12 pm

http://www.france24.com/en/20100622-bri ... ain-damage

Andrew Gough · **Joined:** 17 Sep 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 874

Thanks for all of the updates on this thread guys!

The Cybermacht · **Joined:** 10 Dec 2009 9:05 am **Posts:** 93

my contribution:

Theres a point in history where ancient zoomorphic gods ( from the very first civilization-babylon) lost the battle against zoomorpich-antropomorphic gods (newer egiptian gods) and then they subsequently lost the battle againts pure antropomorphic gods (newer greek gods), just remember the myth of the mynotaurus.

But christianity took again the egiptian mythology!!!! so we have men with wings, or sacred lambs, OR a pope who dresses like the Egyptian God Ra

Since the bee represents Ra, then maybe some real bees are being oculted on a cave on Egypt

-T H e C Y B e r m A C h t

p.s. OR at the base of the 99% unexplored babylon

richard.webster · **Posted:** 26 Aug 2010 11:31 am

British Man Claims To Have Bred Indestructible Bees

Quote:

A British man claims to have bred a strain of bee capable of protecting itself from a deadly parasite that is wiping out the environmentally vital insect.

Article here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildli ... -bees.html

lovuian · **Posted:** 30 Aug 2010 1:28 am

this is the BEST NEWS

Thanks Richard
Now if the Bees can get rid of the Mite
we will see if they can survive...or if it is something more

Tertius · **Joined:** 12 Sep 2011 11:17 pm **Posts:** 412

La USDA accusee de savoir parfaitement
bien la cause du genocide des abeilles

http://www.truth-out.org/usda-ignores-p ... 1327507123

Sheila · **Posted:** 25 Jan 2012 11:36 pm

Organic farmers have been saying this for decades...Honey is made by small independent producers and the powers that be want BEET not BEES...it's all about the worldwide domination of the sugar industry (sugar beet) over the home produced more healthy alternative, honey. Everyone used to have bees and that was all the sweetness they needed and when the industrial revolution kicked in suddenly the corporations that-be needed an industrial sweetener, because the city workers didn't have gardens.
It's all about wiping out the small producers, just like they did with the refined white flour during the wars that put an end to the independent millers...it is all about taking away the independence of the people and handing it over to big business who are hand in hand with the governments.

All you people out there who insist on using white refined sugar and white refined flour are destroying your own health and your environment...and, your own local economy.

2012 will be the year when we, the people take back OUR planet along with the right to feed ourselves.

lovuian · **Posted:** 26 Jan 2012 3:08 am

Sheila wrote:

Organic farmers have been saying this for decades...Honey is made by small independent producers and the powers that be want BEET not BEES...it's all about the worldwide domination of the sugar industry (sugar beet) over the home produced more healthy alternative, honey. Everyone used to have bees and that was all the sweetness they needed and when the industrial revolution kicked in suddenly the corporations that-be needed an industrial sweetener, because the city workers didn't have gardens.
It's all about wiping out the small producers, just like they did with the refined white flour during the wars that put an end to the independent millers...it is all about taking away the independence of the people and handing it over to big business who are hand in hand with the governments.

All you people out there who insist on using white refined sugar and white refined flour are destroying your own health and your environment...and, your own local economy.

2012 will be the year when we, the people take back OUR planet along with the right to feed ourselves.

Right On Sheila
:idea:

rain · **Posted:** 26 Jan 2012 3:20 am

Sheila wrote:

Organic farmers have been saying this for decades...Honey is made by small independent producers and the powers that be want BEET not BEES...it's all about the worldwide domination of the sugar industry (sugar beet) over the home produced more healthy alternative, honey. Everyone used to have bees and that was all the sweetness they needed and when the industrial revolution kicked in suddenly the corporations that-be needed an industrial sweetener, because the city workers didn't have gardens.
It's all about wiping out the small producers, just like they did with the refined white flour during the wars that put an end to the independent millers...it is all about taking away the independence of the people and handing it over to big business who are hand in hand with the governments.

All you people out there who insist on using white refined sugar and white refined flour are destroying your own health and your environment...and, your own local economy.

2012 will be the year when we, the people take back OUR planet along with the right to feed ourselves.

I just bought a small stevia plant. It's so sweet though but it's supposed to have medicinal properties as well.

Sheila · **Posted:** 26 Jan 2012 8:32 am

now that sounds interesting...

BULLDOGNIC · **Joined:** 24 Apr 2008 2:43 pm **Posts:** 1873

Quote:

I just bought a small stevia plant. It's so sweet though but it's supposed to have medicinal properties as well.

I just bought a small sativa plant. It's so sweet though but it's supposed to have medicinal properties as well. :lol:

Just kidding
Regards
Nic

Sheila · **Posted:** 26 Jan 2012 10:16 pm

rain · **Posted:** 27 Jan 2012 1:00 am

BULLDOGNIC wrote:

Quote:

I just bought a small stevia plant. It's so sweet though but it's supposed to have medicinal properties as well.

I just bought a small sativa plant. It's so sweet though but it's supposed to have medicinal properties as well. :lol:

Just kidding
Regards
Nic

Potplanthead :!:

Renne · **Posted:** 01 Feb 2012 12:52 am

Was the genetically altered corn invented to be used for fuel?

The included insecticide genes kill off more than pests.

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