Bees!

[Rox_My_Sox1]

So to commemorate a hive of yellow jackets being found/exterminated in my parents home a day and a half ago, I present, a story about Bees:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2243176

Come to think of it, aside from that one hive they told me about I haven't seen many of the little buggers anywhere else in NY. Are the "killer" ones are wiping the rest all out.

Wonder what might happen in they all went extinct? Not as many flowers perhaps? No more honey (now THAT would be tragic)?

 

[kopfhorer1]

How about no more food? Bees pollinate not only fruit and vegetable crops, but plants eaten by livestock.

Even more urgent than the issue of "killer" bees is the issue of bee mites. Those little suckers have done a number on a lot of beekeepers' swarms.

As for yellow-jackets, I wouldn't mind seeing those pests go extinct!

 

[melanie2]

hmm last summer we had a swarm of bees all of a sudden around our front hummingbird feeder..David said they were honey bees, but they sure looked like small yellow jackets to me..we had to remove the feeder as there were bees everywhere..then they left...

 

[FeatherDaemon1]

I know that humanity would not last long if all the bees suddenly disappeared. I heard some pretty bleak estimates, like 2 or 3 years. They are responsible for much of the natural food cycle. There was a major scare not too long ago when bees started dying worldwide. I'm not sure whatever happened to that story. I lost track of it. Maybe that Kop's bee mite link. I'll have to check that out. We are all still alive so they must have fixed it.

 

[Duke Diablo]

They are responsible for much of the natural food cycle.

Oh, that indeed. Most of the plants depend on bees and other insects to bear fruit, as a mean of reproducing. Now, you can guess what would happen if all the plants (trees and the like) stopped reproducing or giving fruit.

 

[N/A]

On the last episode of last season's Doctor Who, we found out that the bees did not die out, they went home.

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

On the last episode of last season's Doctor Who, we found out that the bees did not die out, they went home.

I like that. I wish it were the case.

 

[kopfhorer1]

On the last episode of last season's Doctor Who, we found out that the bees did not die out, they went home.

"So long, and thanks for all the nectar"?

 

[Rox_My_Sox1]

42 must not have been a good enough answer for them. ^_~

 

[Frost King]

I did hear that bee's are endangerd now so i don't know what where do to get honey if all the bee's are gone i don't know if wasps do anything good for flowers