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I hear there was a bee shortage. Are bees ok now? I never saw a price increase in honey. Did the bees come back?
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Feb 5, 2020 00:03
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I think wasps are okay in comparison, like this one:
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Feb 5, 2020 00:04
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yeah. if its a legitimate collapse the bee colony has ways to try to shut that whole thing down
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Feb 5, 2020 00:09
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based on my secondhand knowledge, no. the bees aren't alright. furthermore, bees have always been Good (like, in an alignment sense. Bees are Lawful Good. I don't understand your question OP.)
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Feb 5, 2020 00:12
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All I know is there's a big rear end nest somewhere near where I work, you go outside to smoke and bees everywhere, they'll land on you to get a second hand nic fix or puff and pass because bee work ain't easy.
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Feb 5, 2020 00:13
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My family had three hives when I was a kid. Eventually they were all gone. Hive collapse is not new; more prevelant, but it is not the coming apocalypse.
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Feb 5, 2020 00:13
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Only good bee is a dead bee. So they are all very very good bees
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Feb 5, 2020 00:20
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LunarBinary posted:I hear there was a bee shortage. Are bees ok now? I never saw a price increase in honey. Did the bees come back? A poo poo ton of honey comes from China. Shockingly, China's production has increased without a similar increase in the number of hives. It's motherfucking magic! There is a really good episode of a show called Rotten on Netflix that deals with honey bees.
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Feb 5, 2020 00:25
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Colonel Cancer posted:Only good bee is a dead bee. So they are all very very good bees u are a monster sir, i don't even care about your rank
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Feb 5, 2020 00:27
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If the bee population were to all die, we would pretty much starve to death.
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Feb 5, 2020 00:27
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deez beez
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Feb 5, 2020 00:27
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Colonel Cancer posted:Only good bee is a dead bee. So they are all very very good bees /
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Feb 5, 2020 00:30
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All bees are good as hell. Hornets are not bees even though they look sick nasty.
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Feb 5, 2020 00:30
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I said come in! posted:If the bee population were to all die, we would pretty much starve to death. If the bee population were to die we'd have migrant children separated at the border pollinate by hand. We will be ok. Besides, honey bees are an invasive species in much of the world and yet folks grew food just fine before their arrival.
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Feb 5, 2020 00:32
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I said come in! posted:If the bee population were to all die, we would pretty much starve to death. Mozi posted:deez beez These are both good posts.
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Feb 5, 2020 00:33
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One time I planted some purple coneflowers and I got like 7 or 8 bees visiting each of them 
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Feb 5, 2020 00:34
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Pet every bumblebee 
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Feb 5, 2020 00:38
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• it was probably mostly because of "varroa mites"– they invade bee colonies and gently caress them up • the bee population seems to still be on an unsustainable downward trend... • ... but due to budget cuts the u.s. department of agriculture suspended data collection for honey bee colonies (thanks obama. wait sorry I mean the other guy) • concerns about it are serious but also overstated– bees are actually an invasive species in the americas and have only been here for a couple hundred years. we'd survive without them, but their loss does represent a substantial threat to about 1/5th of our produce • it's probably fine. they're looking into pesticides that are less harmful to bees to help mitigate the problem and also trying to develop techniques to protect colonies from varroa mites. I mean, it's probably fine, right? probably not a big deal, I'm sure some really smart people are working on the problem right now and it'll turn out just fine. it'll be fine. it'll be fine. it'll work out. you'll see. just watch. it'll be fine.
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Feb 5, 2020 00:38
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The decrease in pollinating power caused by the loss of honey bees can be mitigated by a bunch of really big box fans.
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Feb 5, 2020 00:41
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The bees will die out but we'll do it first. 2nd place is just first among losers, bees.
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Feb 5, 2020 00:42
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EorayMel posted:I think wasps are okay in comparison, like this one: Is that the one that gouges a cockroach in the brain, brings it home, injects it with eggs, and lets larvae slowly eat the zombie cockroach from the inside out? That one is emerald something at least
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Feb 5, 2020 00:45
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Feb 5, 2020 00:48
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There are also Mexican honey wasps that pollinate plants and make honey but not as much as honeybees do
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Feb 5, 2020 00:51
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Woodpile posted:The decrease in pollinating power caused by the loss of honey bees can be mitigated by a bunch of really big box fans. Bee guy is not going to like this.
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Feb 5, 2020 00:51
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EorayMel posted:I think wasps are okay in comparison, like this one: wanna get stung by that wasp dammit- the sting of a cuckoo wasp is ineffective: Actually cuckoo wasps can sting. Only their sting is greatly reduced and not an efective weapon. Such sting can penetrate soft human skin only and if taken by figers they can not sting because of the thick skin on fingers (but they are trying if you look carefully)
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Feb 5, 2020 00:52
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Woodpile posted:If the bee population were to die we'd have migrant children separated at the border pollinate by hand. We will be ok. Besides, honey bees are an invasive species in much of the world and yet folks grew food just fine before their arrival. there were many types of bees in the americas before europeans arrived dummy you can't grow industrial quantities of foods that require pollination without the style of beekeeping where they truck hives from place to place probably we shouldn't be doing that type of agriculture in the first place but that's a different point and we'd still need bees
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Feb 5, 2020 00:58
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Here are orchid bees. The males have a scent pouch to collect fragrances to help them recognize other flowers to visit    
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Feb 5, 2020 00:59
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No that's heresy, the only way to do things is literally rape Earth and reproduce and spread our affliction across her corpse and then the solar system and then the universe at large
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Feb 5, 2020 01:00
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EorayMel posted:I think wasps are okay in comparison, like this one: Looks like a cheap palette swap to me
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Feb 5, 2020 01:00
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Beekeepers actually hurt the bee population because now native bee populations have to compete for resources Honey isn’t vegan anyways just leave the loving bees alone
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Feb 5, 2020 01:02
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Klyith posted:there were many types of bees in the americas before europeans arrived dummy You can. Bees happen to be really good at it and work cheap. Box fans. Helicopters. Migrant children knocking flowering stems with pencils. And et cetera! Food will become more expensive. We may grow less of it. But we won't starve.
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Feb 5, 2020 01:07
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Just face it the best thing we can do for the world and life in abstract sense is to go extinct ASAP.
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Feb 5, 2020 01:21
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Bees are in risk of extinction. So are (household) bananas and avocados, but for different reasons. Also this; The Breakfast Sampler posted:furthermore, bees have always been Good (like, in an alignment sense. Bees are Lawful Good. I don't understand your question OP.) itry fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Feb 5, 2020 |
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Feb 5, 2020 01:26
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Honeybees are fine and have been Ground bees are pretty much hosed and mostly dead already in a lot of places and they matter a lot.
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Feb 5, 2020 01:33
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I loving LOVE BEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Feb 5, 2020 01:46
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beers have always been good
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Feb 5, 2020 02:16
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Could they BEE any more good?
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Feb 5, 2020 02:36
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Do it ironically posted:Honey isn’t vegan anyways just leave the loving bees alone lol at not doing something because it isn't vegan.
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Feb 5, 2020 02:49
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sigher posted:lol at not doing something because it isn't vegan. please do not gently caress the bees
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Feb 5, 2020 02:53
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Arby's sucks unless you like the admittedly fun sensation of squirting diarrhea
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