clever that I thought I was
did a google search on bees, then added rapture for a laugh.
looks like my cleverness is cutting edge, but hardly funny.
the bee rapture looks to me like a metaphor for our times...
Saturday, March 10, 2007
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Are you cleverly refering to "The Rapture" that all God's Childern Await?
yah.
except god's children turned out to be the bees.
who knew?
Well I was just wondering because something’s happening to the bees. They are disappearing faster than one can count. I think the big kids are killing them, maybe not intentionally, but nonetheless killing them.
Oh the bees, honey bee, killer bee, busy bee I be.
I have read several speculations on the disappearance of the bees.
one is that they are dying in the fields, not returning to the hive (their little bodies are nowhere to be found).
maybe that they are somehow exposed to sufficient neurotoxins to affect their ability to find their way home. or chlorine in pools...
But why now? seemingly all of a sudden?
admittedly, I'm poking fun at the cosmology behind the "rapture", which is a brutally amusing fantasy, but for me the losing of the bees portends disaster on an unprecedented scale, especially if it does not get better, or worsens in any way.
lots to worry about, to my mind.
Most likely the cause is some type of bee “pandemic”. In the 80’s deadly bee mites (varroa and tracheal) were introduced to North America. The mites carried viruses that decimated native bee populations. Many small commercial beekeeping operations went out of business as a result of the infestations. In the beginning, the mites were spread primarily (as I understand it), through the commercial sale of queen bees.
No doubt demise of the bee would be nothing short of catastrophic.
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