This Bugs Me, and it Should Bug You Too

[DrDelirium]

I have some concerns about keeping bees in the harsh climate here- a few people I know have tried, and lost their hives. But I got a great deal on these bees from Africa, reputed to be very hardy. They should arrive any day.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

Drugs in the water supply are already an environmental problem. Fortunately, at this point, they are mostly anti-depressants, which should at least help keep bees from spiraling into depression killing themselves because of loss of habitat. Birth control, however, could have many negative impacts on other species. Mice having irresponsible sex, for instance. Mood swings among feral cats. Chubby, emasculated pigeons. Crow orgies.

Right. No Crow orgies.

Birth control in the money supply!

 

[chillywilly2]

I just know that when I get home from driving the highway at night there are a lot fewer bugs splats than there usually are

 

[BoyNextDoor]

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Awesome!

 

[Hypoxia]

I have a solution.

A minor LIT story fetish deals with HuCows, women pressed into service as milk suppliers. A slight DNA tweak will produce HuBees, women (and maybe pervy and/or desperate men) secreting pure royal honey. Likely various breeds of HuBees will secrete varied honeys and syrups. Truffle-kiwi-magpie syrup, hey?

Better living through biochemistry.

 

[neci]

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goddamnit! don't you understand the coal industry will not survive if we insist on cleaning up the environment! how can you hate hard working rural americans so much?! the only solution to this is to fuck up their healthcare, so that when they get cancer from the mines, they can not afford to pay for treatment that's most likely not even covered anymore. it's only right. it's only american. how can you hate america so much that you are willing to destroy any chance we have gas and oil and coal receiving larger subsidies from the tax payers? it's like you want us to fail and return to the dark ages.

 

[BBthrives]

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[goldenpalomino]

So many things wrong with this -

goddamnit! don't you understand the coal industry will not survive It is about time it dies; polluting, expensive (especially with the subsidies provided for it and external costs, inefficient, it is about to go the same way as whale oil and good riddance! . .

if we insist on cleaning up the environment! Um, it is our home, we need to keep it clean

how can you hate hard working rural americans so much?! A clean, cost-efficient, job-creating environment is good for everyone

the only solution to this is to fuck up their healthcare, so that when they get cancer from the mines, they can not afford to pay for treatment that's most likely not even covered anymore. affordable healthcare and coverage is good for everyone too

it's only right. it's only american. how can you hate america so much that you are willing to destroy any chance we have gas and oil and coal receiving larger subsidies from the tax payers? oil, coal and gas get massive subsidies! Renewables hardly get any. It is corporate welfare! Level the playing field for once!


it's like you want us to fail and return to the dark ages. Renewables are the future, not coal

 

[AngusBridie]

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[adrina]

So many things wrong with this -

goddamnit! don't you understand the coal industry will not survive It is about time it dies; polluting, expensive (especially with the subsidies provided for it and external costs, inefficient, it is about to go the same way as whale oil and good riddance! . .

if we insist on cleaning up the environment! Um, it is our home, we need to keep it clean

how can you hate hard working rural americans so much?! A clean, cost-efficient, job-creating environment is good for everyone

the only solution to this is to fuck up their healthcare, so that when they get cancer from the mines, they can not afford to pay for treatment that's most likely not even covered anymore. affordable healthcare and coverage is good for everyone too

it's only right. it's only american. how can you hate america so much that you are willing to destroy any chance we have gas and oil and coal receiving larger subsidies from the tax payers? oil, coal and gas get massive subsidies! Renewables hardly get any. It is corporate welfare! Level the playing field for once!


it's like you want us to fail and return to the dark ages. Renewables are the future, not coal

Neci forgot her sarcasm tags.

 

[goldenpalomino]

Neci forgot her sarcasm tags.

Oh, sorry for taking that seriously. This is my first time in the thread, and I don't know her.

 

[adrina]

Oh, sorry for taking that seriously. This is my first time in the thread, and I don't know her.

No worries.

You are both feel passionately about this.

That's not a bad thing.

 

[EternalFantasies]

No worries.

You are both feel passionately about this.

That's not a bad thing.

I am aalso (indian accent) feel passionately about this.



So how many bugs are actually in you by now?

 

[Richard_P_Feynman]

I am aalso (indian accent) feel passionately about this.



So how many bugs are actually in you by now?

Your tiny junk and cock aren't the subject of the conversation...

 

[trysail]

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[doowdniw]

I just know that when I get home from driving the highway at night there are a lot fewer bugs splats than there usually are

They're getting smarter.

 

[FGB]

You're an idiot who believes his scientific acumen far exceeds the reality of his situation.



Brings to mind the suggestion that we could replenish fisheries by cordoning off large tracts of ocean from commercial fishing. That yields would actually improve if fishing activities were limited to, say, 20% of the ocean. I don't recall who did this research, but since then there is some evidence the idea is viable.

The danger in this is genetic diversity is not achieved,therefore some sickness or defect could wipe out the whole bunch...and altering the genetics of fish that might escape into the wild has problems of it's own.

Now, having said that some good things are happening in salt water tanks out in West Texas plenty of adjustable salt water away from the oceans.

 

[DrDelirium]

The danger in this is genetic diversity is not achieved,therefore some sickness or defect could wipe out the whole bunch...and altering the genetics of fish that might escape into the wild has problems of it's own.

Now, having said that some good things are happening in salt water tanks out in West Texas plenty of adjustable salt water away from the oceans.

I think that if 80% of the ocean were off limits to fishing, genetic diversity would tend to be protected- always assuming that some basic sense was used in defining the active fishing zones.

 

[Misspent_Ute]

If you want to preserve it, put it on the menu.

[Often attributed to Ted Nugent.]


Culling creates healthier populations.



The Missouri Conservation Department's efforts, for example, are so effective that I am dodging antler rats from the time I leave home until I reach my workplace and that includes dodging the lust-crased rut crowd In town, where the bleeding hearts refuse to allow any hunting of the little "deers."

 

[adrina]

Yes, that has worked so well in the past and is working so well now that we should continue eating the animals so they can survive.

This isn't big game hunting where there are actual funds that can be used to build up and maintain big game preserves. That's epically stupid even for you.

 

[BotanyBoy]

This makes me think of the canary in the coalmine.

Bees, pollinators, flying insects... these are all vitally important to the food chain and the environment in general. We must change our behaviors. Or pay the price.

You're already paying the price, do more research into big ag.

This is by design and good for the agriculture industry, they are going for the big pharma model.

In 50 years food will be peoples #1 expenditure and independent farmers like myself will be criminalized.

As a species we have exceeded the carrying capacity of our environment. The biotic factors cannot replenish unaided and some abiotic factors are becoming toxic.

"Canary in a coalmine" is an apt metaphor.

The biotic factors are fine and abiotics aren't anymore toxic than they used to be.

And no it's not, you're just a hype man for the "where's my money" gang of the global warming crowd of idiots.

We just need to change our agricultural/gardening/pest management practices and most of the bee/pollinator problems are taken care of.

But we won't because food's going to be much more valuable after we poison them all off.

This has been going on for some time, and the majority of people don't give a shit, after all, bees sting you.
They'll only start giving a shit when food becomes paste in a tube because real food costs a fortune.

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More truth.

 

[Libsam]

There was a FB post that went viral recently, some beekeeper in Iowa got his hives bashed in by some vandals. This story sparked my brain.

1) The European Honey Bee was one of the first animals the evil white man domesticated.

2) One threat to Honey Bees is Colony Collapse Disorder.

2a) Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus has been implicated in Colony Collapse Disorder.

2b) Africanized Killer Bees also played a role in the declining numbers of Western Honey Bees.

Interesting, huh?
Canary in the coalmine, indeed.

 

[Super-Surprise]

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[Libsam]

Also, Colony Collapse Disorder is when all the male worker bees just up and leave the the Queen.

It's like MRA vs Feminist.

Bees Going Their Own Way

So many levels of irony.

 

[adrina]

The food chain....

The report.

Each technique revealed the biomass (the dry weight of all the captured invertebrates) had significantly decreased from 1976 to the present day. The sweep sample biomass decreased to a fourth or an eighth of what it had been. Between January 1977 and January 2013, the catch rate in the sticky ground traps fell 60-fold.

The food web appears to have been obliterated from the bottom. It’s credible that the authors link the cascade to arthropod loss, Schowalter said, because “you have all these different taxa showing the same trends — the insectivorous birds, frogs and lizards — but you don’t see those among seed-feeding birds.”