You obviously hate our freedom.

i know it's a serious problem and we need them, but i fucking hate bees so much.

fuck the bees.

we need to declare war on bee parasites and/or iran.

Well this is sad. I hate how much the world just seems to be falling down around us.

That's ok I can finish my Masters by then and default on my loans because I'll be dead.

Ha,ha jokes on you.

I'm tired of reading about the news. I'm gonna try to do my part to help, but I'm tired of being depressed about the world going to Hell in a handbasket. Everybody is dying, everything is crumbling, we will all die, blah blah blah. I'm gonna keep truckin' along and when the shit hits the fan then I'll panic.

I've seen a documentary, I think on Independent Lens, about this problem. Part of it is invasive species of plants that annihilate populations of plants that bees have pollinated for thousands of years. Part of it is pesticides. A great deal of it is global warming. But this whole thing started when we erased the American frontier and destroyed the prairies. In the 1800s, bee population went straight down. Then when expansion sort of leveled out, the bee population did too, and now that there are twenty other new problems, down they go again.

I see a society in the future where, due to the bee population being eradicated, food is only produced in a select quantity for a select few, who live in secluded Utopian cities, while the rest of the population is reduced to our very carnal instincts, using cannibalism as the only means to survive while our bodies have mutated and adapted to the lack of vegetation, as well as mutated by drinking poisoned water over generations that is polluted with the runoff from vast fields that were once farmlands which are now barren and dry!

SInce when do bees eat corn? Honeybees eat pollen mixed with nectar (beebread).

I'm thinking the problem has more to do with parasites and the wonky weather. Most of North America had a false spring which may have woken the bees up a bit early and coaxed them out to a slow, cold death when they should have been asleep.

And here I was thinking that Einstein was the epitome of genius. Bees pollinate trees and plants? Pfft. Just the flowering plants. And they aren't the only insects involved in pollination.

Besides, butterflies don't sting as bad.

fuck everybody...

I find it grimly amusing that the administration who famously proclaimed to not wait for a "smoking gun" as proof that Iraq was harboring WMDs (say, like a mushroom cloud over New York) abjectly refuses to do anything on global warming without "proof."

I like bees.

People used to be fond of saying that the bees, with a well ordered society, would be first in line to inheret the human's place at the top after we've killed ourselves off and over tens of thousands of years of bee evolution.

HA FUCKING HA!

We win, dildos!

But seriously, this sucks.

Butterflies also don't pollinate many plants that are eaten by humans... nor do flies, wasps, ants, moths or any other insects for that matter. Indeed none of those groups pollinate flowering plants (which BTW make up the majpority of plant diversity) as well as bees. And the non-flowering plants are rarely pollinated by any animals so that's not even a point. Also if you get stung by a bee its because you did something stupid, they die if they sting you so unless you agitate them then they won't hurt you since no animal is in a rush to die, it's simple, even a 3 year old can understand it.

Yes the artical exaggerates things but that doesn't make the problem any less of a problem does it? Or do the bees not count now because they're not people? Here's a little fact for you: if Bees become extinct so does a lot of global biodiversity, if humans go extinct nothing much happens... whats more expendable?