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Bees ... where are they?

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  • Lotus-eater
    Lotus-eater Posts: 10,789 Forumite
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    level200 wrote: »
    Its the goverment spraying chemicals on us from the air, i remember seeing an article in the Guardian newspaper where they admitted experimenting on us.... its still going on and is now killing the bees!

    Edited:
    He's a youtube video regarding chemtrains http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VLNNwiKvlE

    and here is a link to the Guardian article http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2002/apr/21/uk.medicalscience
    Yeeeessssssssss.

    I expect there are other explanations that are easier to swallow. Like they all watched a nature film on lemmings and decided to mass suicide.





    I know I know I know they don't, I was just making a point 'k?
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  • Mojisola
    Mojisola Posts: 35,571 Forumite
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    level200 wrote: »
    Its the goverment spraying chemicals on us from the air, i remember seeing an article in the Guardian newspaper where they admitted experimenting on us.... its still going on and is now killing the bees!

    How do you know it is?
  • rhiwfield
    rhiwfield Posts: 2,482 Forumite
    This possibility is rather more plausible.

    http://www.i-sis.org.uk/MobilePhonesVanishingBees.php

    Bees or mobiles, which would you do without if one had to go?
  • Lotus-eater
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    Bees of course, how am I gonna chat to me homies, dog.

    Besides, all dem little furry buzzy fings do, is go up my stupidly wide jeans an try an sting me in da inards, innit.
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  • choille
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    Yes - the mobile mast too.

    Yet there appears to be no problem in Austraila.
  • SEE
    SEE Posts: 722 Forumite
    Primrose wrote: »
    Did anybody else see the programme on BBC2 last night (Friday) on the wholesale worldwide death of bees. This has such worrying implications for the future pollination of our fruit and vegetables on a global basis as scientists do not yet know for certain what is killing them. Perhaps we should all increase our efforts to grow some flowers or fruit in our gardens and allotments to provide pollen for them and refrain from using any insecticides in the hope that we can make life easier for them,
    I blame Monsanto.
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  • b3nton
    b3nton Posts: 254 Forumite
    Damn, I missed this and love programmes like this.
    I love bees! i21-14.jpg
  • Lotus-eater
    Lotus-eater Posts: 10,789 Forumite
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    It will be on iplayer
    Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
  • sb44
    sb44 Posts: 5,203 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
  • MRSTITTLEMOUSE
    MRSTITTLEMOUSE Posts: 8,547 Forumite
    I've got a lot of fat bumble bees in my garden that are very active however over the past two years the honeybees have been coming and either I find them in the house or lying in amongst the compost.The ones in the house I put out and they just climb away and I usually find them dead.
    Last year and a couple of times this month I've found dead honey bees crawling round the path and then they just seem to keel over and die.
    I don't use any pestisides but something must be killing them.
    Some of them were covered in white stuff and I looked through a magnifier and the white stuff was actually tiny mites crawling over them.They were covered.
    It's such a shame.
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