BREAKING 12 million BEES DEAD IN FLORIDA | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 5198742 United States 11/17/2011 09:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm not going to comment any further. You have the links. You know how to search and find news that ISN'T on MSM teevee, else you wouldn't be here. I don't want to start the panic. I just wanted to tell a few people what's going on, because it is godawful lonely knowing this and not knowing if anyone else knows. Now I know that at least SOME people - if they choose - do know, and that's enough for me. I wish everyone well. Avoid low-lying areas. Any smell of rotten-eggs, get the fuck out of Dodge. If you're on a coast, might wanna consider moving out. Get some ozone generators (reacts away H2S). Treat your fellow man with kindness and compassion. Never give up hope. |
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John Donson User ID: 1510279 United States 11/17/2011 09:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have a bee hive in my backyard some 25 ft in the air. That hive must be 8 ft and possess 5 gallons of honey. The only reported colonies collapsing are of the commercial variety. Like any living thing, bees are not programmed to thrive off of only one source of food. Commercial bee hives spend weeks at a time gathering one type of pollen. My bees have a plethora of wild flowers, trees, fruit, veggies and anything that blooms in a 2 mile radius to gather from. The hive is immense and thriving because they are not commercial. Also, those bees are the tamest insects around. Some will get in the house from time to time due to lights at night and I can catch them and let them outside. They never sting! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 3738626 United States 11/17/2011 09:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | And listen to the sounds around you at night? If you live in a city, as I do, then surely you have noticed a serious uptick in sirens? I sure have. What do you think that is? That's people being carted away as they die ONE-BY-ONE in their homes. The only sign of this is the sirens and the local obituary columns. The die-off is underway RIGHT NOW. I guarantee we never hit seven billion people. We may be closing in on SIX billion by now. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 5198742 This is how 'they' plan for it to happen: quietly, under the radar, no panic, just a lot of people dying of pulmonary edema or heart attack or stroke, which is exactly what it looks like. And if an autopsy isn't performed within hours, which is unlikely, then all traces of the H2S are gone. Remember Michelle Obama encouraging people to insulate their homes? This is probably why: so the gas doesn't leak through, into your home, and kill you in the night. She tried. I felt the emotion in her voice and I was puzzled about it at the time. Now I understand. Maybe once ENOUGH people have died, the survivors will be taken underground. There isn't room for everyone. Hey man, we hit 7 billion people on October 28th. You can google it. |
samanthasunflower User ID: 5364986 United States 11/17/2011 09:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Sometimes beekeepers can be jerks to both their neighbors and their bees. Last year I almost committed bee genocide against my neighbors bees. They have a big property, and could have put their bees (about 200 hives) under their trees and near their pond when they didn't need them to pollinate their crops. Bun instead, they put them on their empty grass seed fields, right next to my ripe peaches. Having to compete for every peach against millions of bees was enough to make me totally hate my neighbor. (Or rather the agribusiness that he rents to.) Those peaches are a crop that I needed to sell, and I'm allergic to honeybees. So it wasn't a happy time for me. I should have pulled the Sevin spray out and sprayed the property line. That would have taken care of the problem. (These same jerks have no problems spraying herbicide into my pasture and killing my livestock, there is no love loss there.) If they wanted their bees alive, they would have checked with all the neighbors before sending them out to terrorize the neighborhood. Extra bees during bloom time can be nice, but millions of bees just showing up on your crops during harvest is a literal pain. |
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Dragonslayer User ID: 2849266 United States 11/17/2011 10:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "Authorities have already ruled out disease, including the infamous “Colony Collapse Disorder” (CCD), as the cause of a recent honeybee holocaust that took place in Brevard County, Florida. The UK’s Daily Mail reports that up to 12 million bees from roughly 800 apiaries in the area all dropped dead at roughly the same time around September 26 — and local beekeepers say pesticides are likely to blame. CCD is the term often used to describe the inexplicable mass die-off of honeybees around the world, which typically involves honeybees leaving their hives and, for whatever reason, never finding their way back home. Mass die-offs associated with CCD often occur at seemingly random locations around the world, and typically involve a gradual process of disappearance and eventual colony collapse — and the dead bees are typically nowhere to be found. But the recent Florida event involved hundreds of colonies from 30 different sites in a one-and-a-half mile radius literally dropping dead all at the same time and leaving their carcasses behind, which is why authorities have dismissed CCD as the cause" Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1538919 [link to majortrend.tv] MAGNETOSPHERE! "Make the journey more powerful than the destination"--Pat Tillman "We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm"--George Orwell |
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seeker12 User ID: 1023601 United States 11/17/2011 10:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have a bee hive in my backyard some 25 ft in the air. That hive must be 8 ft and possess 5 gallons of honey. The only reported colonies collapsing are of the commercial variety. Quoting: John Donson 1510279 Like any living thing, bees are not programmed to thrive off of only one source of food. Commercial bee hives spend weeks at a time gathering one type of pollen. My bees have a plethora of wild flowers, trees, fruit, veggies and anything that blooms in a 2 mile radius to gather from. The hive is immense and thriving because they are not commercial. Also, those bees are the tamest insects around. Some will get in the house from time to time due to lights at night and I can catch them and let them outside. They never sting! I raise honey bees/produce honey with approximately 12 hives. Rarely do honey bees sting away from their home (hive). They are known to sting when defending their home. Like a man defending his own property from the enemy...even nature knows this is normal. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 744062 United States 11/17/2011 10:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yes. In fact, those ancient bacteria eat two things: bio-matter (dead stuff) and methane. So as the oceans release the methane hydrates there will be HUGE plumes of hydrogen sulfide. This is how most of us are going to die. Maybe all of us. Quoting: Nobody in Particular Ah another piece to the puzzle stars to add up. I always wondered how the 'heavens' would melt with fervent heat in the great and terrible day of judgment that is coming on this earth. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 671825 United States 11/17/2011 10:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hydrogen sulfide is pluming from our oceans now as the dead zones grow. It's poisoning our atmosphere and there are pockets of it blowing all around the world now. It is slightly heavier than air, so it tends to seek low-lying areas, much as water does. Bees fly down close to the ground from time to time to get to flowers there, they get exposed, and they die. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 5198742 This happens every time the oceans go anoxic. It's nothing new. Ancient bacterial doom. Remember those Iranian explosions? Apparently those were bases with missiles, probably liquid-fuel rockets. Liquid-fuel rockets frequently use nitric acid as a catalyst. Nitric acid, if it comes into contact with gaseous hydrogen sulfide, is incredibly explosive. That 'gas explosion' in Ohio? That happened in a valley, a place where hydrogen sulfide would tend to accumulate. Suddenly there are many fishermen being found dead on their boats, college students dead in their dorms, hotel guests dead in their rooms, people dying near ponds, creeks, rivers, quays, lagoons, beaches, etc. Remember the 22 students in Houston who suddenly dropped to the ground unconscious? Well, there was a fireman there, who also dropped unconscious when he tried to help...after he KNELT DOWN, where the H2S was higher in concentration. Hydrogen sulfide is lethal at 1 part per thousand, about as lethal as hydrogen cyanide, which they use in gas chambers. Look at this poor young woman: [link to www.nbcphiladelphia.com] ... Quit reading after this article....How in the frick did you conclude that this lady died of H2S poisoning by reading that article??? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1272162 United States 11/17/2011 10:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | " Having to compete for every peach against millions of bees " TRUE OR FALSE STATEMENT ? FALSE I have several peach trees and I have never seen bees eating the peaches,birds peck the fruits an then WASPS, beetles and other insects take advantage of it! THE POOL WATER COULD BE TRUE. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 5588917 United States 11/17/2011 10:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | " Having to compete for every peach against millions of bees " Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1272162 TRUE OR FALSE STATEMENT ? FALSE I have several peach trees and I have never seen bees eating the peaches,birds peck the fruits an then WASPS, beetles and other insects take advantage of it! THE POOL WATER COULD BE TRUE. I have peach trees and have seen lots of bees in groups eating the ripe fruit on and off the tree. I am not sure they were honey bees, though. |
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Burt Gummer User ID: 5586671 United States 11/17/2011 11:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "Authorities have already ruled out disease, including the infamous “Colony Collapse Disorder” (CCD), as the cause of a recent honeybee holocaust that took place in Brevard County, Florida. The UK’s Daily Mail reports that up to 12 million bees from roughly 800 apiaries in the area all dropped dead at roughly the same time around September 26 — and local beekeepers say pesticides are likely to blame. CCD is the term often used to describe the inexplicable mass die-off of honeybees around the world, which typically involves honeybees leaving their hives and, for whatever reason, never finding their way back home. Mass die-offs associated with CCD often occur at seemingly random locations around the world, and typically involve a gradual process of disappearance and eventual colony collapse — and the dead bees are typically nowhere to be found. But the recent Florida event involved hundreds of colonies from 30 different sites in a one-and-a-half mile radius literally dropping dead all at the same time and leaving their carcasses behind, which is why authorities have dismissed CCD as the cause" Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1538919 [link to majortrend.tv] MAGNETOSPHERE! Thanks BP!!! ...the Corexit worked well! :ttb2: |
seeker12 User ID: 1023601 United States 11/17/2011 11:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Independent bee keepers have a pretty good idea of how many bees they have per hive. It sounds like multiple sources reported the death of multiple hives, at the same time. A strong hive will be the home of approximately 60,000 honey bees. It takes 20,000 to produce 1 pound of honey! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1493261 United States 11/17/2011 11:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's an approximation. A colony can consists of approx. 20,000 bees cold months (Winter) to over 60,000 bees warm months (Summer). 800 apiaries, (a place where bees are kept) = a lot of bees. Maybe they should have just said a shit load of bees took a dirt nap for unknown reasons. 800 apiaries x 20,000 bees = 16,000,000 bees 800 apiaries x 60,000 bees = 48,000,000 bees so 12,000,000 is a good educated guess. I know, you like the shit load of bees answer better! |