Dennis vanEngelsdorp: Where have the bees gone?

http://www.ted.com Bees are dying in droves. Why? Leading apiarist Dennis vanEngelsdorp looks at the gentle, misunderstood creature's important place in nature and the mystery behind its alarming disappearance.
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[Cannibalzz]

I took the bees, and you'll never get them back!!!!

[gusphraba]

Sorry, what I meant was, if we wait for the people who are good at making money to do the right thing, we will wait forever and things will keep getting worse because they care about themselves and their families and not about the future of the rest of the world. Which is not their fault, it's what makes them good at it. Instead we have to make it more profitable for them to do good than evil. They will never do good if it means less profit, just like the people in the streets. It's our fault.

[krazykraut]

I'm eating a peanut butter and honey sandwich RIGHT NOW! :D

[influxrift]

Lawns are useless biosystems. Correct.

[Linda98002]

@TECHKLEC

Mason bees are really a type of awesome pollinating fly with hairy legs---a man who is raising these pollinators talked to the SCARAB club at the Burke Museum, Seattle last winter about them. Really good news! They are something like 300 times more effective at moving the pollen around!! (And they don't bite --or sting like bees can--they are gentle and easier for people to work around.)

[dedsetmad]

@gusphraba ................you idiot

[dedsetmad]

When I was a little tacker back in the 60's, there were bees everywhere on a nice day...household gardens were swarming beautifully.

Today....zip...,...I have to look to find any bees even on the sunniest of days. My intuitive mind tells me that it has something to do with the chemicals that we spray everywhere

Just remember that without the birds and the bees to pollinate the plants, we're fucked. I think that we had better take this phenomenon seriously if we wish the human race to continue.

[000Winter000]

HAARP and/or Scalar waves are responsible for the odd beehaviour. They are purposely trying to ruin our food supply for mass depopulation. The "useless eaters" must die, and Monsanto must make prophets off of their "suicide plants".

[northhens]

One of einsteins best quote`s if all bees vanish off the face of the planet,humans would only live another 4 years

[veganath]

@AlanAbbott Interesting theory, Monsanto vs. The World..... I hope that it's not true, but like u I hv my suspicions. We need to use the best of technologies & embrace a simpler authentic way of life, devoid of NDD.

[del33pi]

everyone! take out 90% of your lawn and xeriscape it or turn into a meadow! and the other 10% do NOT use fertilizer, just get a type of lawngrass that is native to your area.

imagine how quiet weekend mornings would be without lawnmowers...ahhh