Are Honeybees Disappearing Forever? "I F**king Hope Not!" (VIDEO)

Attention Span Media has released a video that takes a humorous look at the disappearing honeybee crisis.
The video, Honey Bee Mystery, describes the honeybee problem in an entertaining way, for those that don't want to sit through boring scientific videos on the phenomenon.

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Related: Honey Bee Crisis Could Push Food Prices Even Higher

Comments

[ie]

we are smurfed--we are so smurfed!

[BabooKyra]

The problem lies with commercial hives, not the wild ones. The poor commercial bees are treated with chemical (fungicide, miticide, antibiotics), have all their honey taken and are fed high fructose corn syrup (pure poison), and are transported on bouncy, noisy, smoke belching trucks hundreds of miles. No wonder they're in trouble. On the other hand, the wild hives I've been watching for years are still thriving. The hives are in holes in rocks and crannies of deserted ruined buildings in the hills of Los Angeles. The bees work the buckwheat, fennel, and other wild chapparel plants and do very well without humans.

[jeanruss]

Europe has banned two pesticides that their research shows are the problem. They recommend that America do the same. They don't realize yet that corporations run America and they don't care about the human race, except as a product to exploit. The government has given another million dollars for "research" the problem that the Europeans have already solved.

[thegreatgiginthesky]

They did a story on CNN recently about curing the disease that is wiping out the honey bee population. Apparently researchers in India used cow urine to spray the hive and they said the hive was completely cured. Apparently something in the cow urine fixes what ails the honey bee.

[musselmanm]

I have seen the same story several times in diffferent reliable media sites.
I believe this is true.
Here in Greensboro, I do alot of gardening. There seems to be no Honey Bee problem here, but I am not a scientist.
And no I did not even stay at the motel or hotel!

[TimmySlagle]

Einstein never said anything about honeybees. That's an urban myth.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/einstein/bees.asp

[metropixie]

Well, It's telling that so far this post has only garnered 5 comments. Looks like we don't care as much as we think we do... We can get riled up over a cartoon, but something that is affecting our ecosystem and food situation, hell, we can't blame Bush this time, so why bother...

[mamacat]

This is part of very, very real problem.

As the human race fills up every nook and cranny on the planet, and as the fruits of technology are likewise spread over every inch of the Earth's surface, we are unintentionally causing the extermination of tens of thousands of species of animals and plants. Some of these species are extremely important to human life on this planet, and we do not even know which ones are essential to life as we know it.

It seems safe to say that honeybees may be threatened with extinction. It also seems safe to say that while we do not think of them in the same terms that we do pandas and sperm whales and tasmanian devils, they are very important to us agriculturally. While dreading the idea that future generations will never know the wonders of watching bees in flight and at work, we should also dread the consequences to our food supply should honeybees disappear the way so many other species already have.

As our own numbers as a species climb inexorably up toward the next billion, and then the next, and the next, should we not give some thought to the problems inherent to unbridled population explosion?

[TimmySlagle]

" we are unintentionally causing the extermination of tens of thousands of species of animals and plants."

No, just the good plants and the cute animals.

If you knew ANYTHING about climate alarmism, you would know that only the good species of plants, like crops, are going to go extinct. CO2 causes poison ivy to thrive.

Ditto for the animals. Cute species like penguins and polar bears go extinct, while mosquitoes proliferate.

I know that doesn't sound very scientific, but ist isn't abnout science. It's all about humans being punished for stealing fire from the gods.

[mamacat]

The extent of species extinctions caused by humans is indeed signifigant. To check it out online, I suggest using the key words extinction and species.

We are currently in what biologists have called the Holocene Extinction Event. While species extinction is normal, it is estimated to be occuring at a rate of between 100 and 1000 times the normal rate, due entirely to human activities. Estimates among scientists are that up to 50% of animal species will be caused to become extinct within the next 100 years. That figure does not include the species that mankind has already killed off.

We are living in a closed environment, the Earth. Our numbers and the complexity of our technological products have been increasing exponentially. It is reasonable to conclude that we need to be aware of our environment, and to control what we do to it, or we will suffer unintended consequences, including making our environment uninhabitable.

I enjoyed your comment about stealing fire from the Gods. It is always good to have a sense of humor. Maybe if we venture further into space, we will meet some of these Gods.

[sowhatdemos]

We live in rural Tennessee and while the honeybees aren't back to normal levels I've seen a substantial increase in their numbers over last year. We plant flowers and vegetables that they like to encourage them. Bees like many of the plants that also attract hummingbirds and butterflies. They like:
Butterfly bushes, hosta flowers, coneflowers, clementis, lemon balm, touch me nots, daylilies, daisies, roses, the blossoms of basil, oregano, squash flowers, okra blooms, blooms of watermelon, cantelope.
Basically the blossoms of anything blooming in summer will attract them and encourage them to visit your property.
A word of caution: Don't use pesticides! Chemical poisons kill both good and bad bugs. Choose insecticidal soap or horticultural oils and stay as organic as possible. It works for us!

[tryharder2think]

Another problem looms and this one is in our oceans...

Sharks are being slaughtered.

sharkwater: http://www.sharkwater.com/

I have nothing to do with the movie - except I love nature.

[swift goat pet for truth]

In the ocean EVERYTHING is being slaughtered?

Think sharks are a problem. You need to read up on menhaden

[markie1111]

it's pretty sad when a species as inteligent as man, can sit there and see that the fruits of his labor have resulted in a planet's catastrophic loss of diversity and do next to nothing real to correct it. just look at bees and bats and amphibians and coral and language and culture.

[AtomiClash]

Your first mistake was insinuating Man is intelligent.