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I wonder how much of his time,energy and money went into prepping for the protest, working out the logistics, searching and acquiring the bee costume, creating signage and so forth all to disrupt DC's commute that day. And how much of his actual personal time he spends truly working on solving and preventing the dying off of our pollinating bees?
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Originally posted by JFISHER View Post
Uh, yes they do. They spill transmission fluid quite often.
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Originally posted by flywise View PostI bet the environmental impact of building those things makes them about as clean as a good old diesel engine
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Originally posted by sqiggy View PostI read somewhere, that the carbon footprint just to manufacture these things will never produce the "green" to compensate for it. Plus it cost more to build and erect than what it will ever make off of the wind.
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Originally posted by Hooverfb View PostNot to mention... honey bees are part of the problem, just like the folks that brought hogs over. They're non-native and bring disease to natural pollinators that we didnt have before... but it's easier to rally around save the bees or your evil.
Traveling through the farmlands in China about 8 years ago and watching hundreds of people out in the fields with little paintbrushes going from flower to flower trying to pollinate them because they had no insects left was an eye opening experience for me.
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Originally posted by Man View PostWow I have never heard that before. Time for me to do some research on this. I have always been a huge proponent of population increase of the honey bee.
Traveling through the farmlands in China about 8 years ago and watching hundreds of people out in the fields with little paintbrushes going from flower to flower trying to pollinate them because they had no insects left was an eye opening experience for me.
Honey bees will be fine. It's the other 3,999 species of bees in North America we need to worry about.
This study points out that even with managed bees, pollination rates are better with wild bee diversity.
Biggest thing is the fact that they're non-native here.
Negative effects were more common with managed bees outside of their native range (58% of studies) as compared to managed bees within their native range (37%). From that study... the percentages here being percentage of studies by region. Then lster..
The majority of studies (70%) reported negative effects of managed bees on wild bees via pathogen transmission, with 15% reporting no effects and an additional 15% reporting mixed effects.Last edited by Hooverfb; 09-24-2019, 07:05 PM.
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Originally posted by Mike D View PostYeah right after they go up in flames in a cloud of thick, black smoke.
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