I'm so sorry. That's awful. My parents had eight hives on their land that someone else managed for them. He is now down to two hives. This is on eighty acres of undisturbed meadows and woods and about twenty-five acres of farmland (sweet corn, pumpkins, tomatoes, green beans, other truck crops). They just don't know…
If folks want to help, anyone who has a garden, or even a fire escape or roof garden, can plant some bee-feeding flowers. For containers, this is a nice succession: some late-blooming crocuses, some anise hyssop, and some multi-headed, medium-height sunflowers. Underplant with some white clover.
The good news is, if the bees DO go away you won’t have to live life without those things!
To be fair, it doesn’t presently appear that pesticides alone are the cause of CCD, but rather of a combination of pesticides, parasites, fungus, climate change, and changes of biodiversity.
Reports are Naled is supposed to be sprayed at dusk - when all good bees have punched out for the day. Idiots in state and local governments apparently can’t read instructions. Sprayed during the day. And the fact they’re not even sure this will help Zika... Jesus. Fucking morons.
Instead of spraying wide-targeting pesticides around, the US needs to invest in traps that lure mosquitoes based on their breeding patterns, and destroy their eggs. Something like this.
I really need to trim my large patch of Rose of Sharon back but there’s no way I’m doing it before it finishes blooming. Those little bee bastards are going in yellow and coming out completely white from all the pollen, can’t take away their dinner like that heh
Two years ago I had a hive with 10,000 bees.
Jewel’s response is lovely:
A classic-
Mr. Jewell, your son definitely led with his helmet.
Close, it’s almost burfict.
That’s some pretty good Steelers cosplay.
In the case of Somalia, when the government collapsed in 1991, schools closed, art, music and sports had no funding to continue. Saudi Arabia stepped into the void, offering to open schools and putting money into the country but what was being taught was Wahhabism, the conservative Saudi interpretation of Islam. This…
There’s an interesting subtext here that doesn’t have to do with sport. WHY have major world religions become more conservative? Pre-revolutionary Iran was pretty secular, but the revolution brought in a conservative movement. About the same time, Reagan courted and won with the help of the religious right - very…
Marine here again. I can’t stand how conflated “the flag” has become with “the military.” I also can’t stand the knee-jerk “patriots” whose default position toward the military is genuflection, and anyone who fails to bend the knee is shunned. These are not the hallmarks of a free society.
A side question: At what point did “Support the Troops” morph into “Worship the Military?”
Non-American here, not really getting all this noise, I was under the impression that the purpose of your military was to protect the interests of the country abroad and (when required) defend the country and constitution from attack. If that is accurate, then does the military not EXIST to protect the right to free…
I mean realistically though its hard to be surprised at reactions to this. People prefer to have things as simple, black/white (no pun intended) as possible, because discussing nuance, trade-offs, etc. is inconvenient and takes too much effort. It’s why cable news has reached its current state. Soundbites and slogans…