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Zoidburg

Dead Bees
« on: 11 May, 2008, 05:15:13 pm »
I keep finding bees crawling on the floor or dead instead of buzzing around in a bee like manner

Is the virus going to kill them all?
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gordon taylor

Re: Dead Bees
« Reply #1 on: 11 May, 2008, 07:21:59 pm »
Are you talking honeybees here? I've been out today with a mate from Rugeley. Last year he had five hives, full to bursting. They've all died or absconded in 2008.

I kept bees until the varroa parasite became endemic in about 2000.

I hope they recover somehow; we need our bees.
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Mrs Pingu

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Re: Dead Bees
« Reply #2 on: 11 May, 2008, 09:03:39 pm »
Something I read last week (I think it was an article in The Scotsman) is blaming wi-fi and other such EM radiation for the bee problem...
Whatever it is, it's not good.  :-\
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Re: Dead Bees
« Reply #3 on: 11 May, 2008, 09:04:24 pm »
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 11 May, 2008, 09:03:39 pm
Something I read last week (I think it was an article in The Scotsman) is blaming wi-fi and other such EM radiation for the bee problem...

That'll be it then  ;D
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Re: Dead Bees
« Reply #4 on: 11 May, 2008, 09:18:04 pm »
Colony Collapse Disorder???

This link explores a myriad of possible causes, including the radio emission one - bottom line: no-one has a clue (yet)
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Re: Dead Bees
« Reply #5 on: 11 May, 2008, 09:21:12 pm »
There was a dead bee on my seatpack yesterday.  Gawd knows how it got there, but it was very dead.  :(

I like bees.
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Re: Dead Bees
« Reply #6 on: 11 May, 2008, 09:25:22 pm »
Quote from: Mal Volio on 11 May, 2008, 09:04:24 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 11 May, 2008, 09:03:39 pm
Something I read last week (I think it was an article in The Scotsman) is blaming wi-fi and other such EM radiation for the bee problem...

That'll be it then  ;D
Yeah well, in the middle of the article was a bloke advertising some sort of widget for putting under hives from which was supposed to emanate a 'stable signal'. Anyone for some magnetic water??  ::-)
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Fab Foodie

Re: Dead Bees
« Reply #7 on: 11 May, 2008, 09:53:17 pm »
No dead bees spotted here in Oxon... yet, but far too many Wasps for my liking. 
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Martin

Re: Dead Bees
« Reply #8 on: 11 May, 2008, 09:55:57 pm »
If Wi-fi is killing bees what's it doing to all our brains? isn't wi-fi (outside of the home) the same thing as Cellphones?
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border-rider

Re: Dead Bees
« Reply #9 on: 11 May, 2008, 09:59:40 pm »
Quote from: Martin on 11 May, 2008, 09:55:57 pm
If Wi-fi is killing bees

It's not

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what's it doing to all our brains?


Making us all believe what's in the Sunday papers ? ;)

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isn't wi-fi (outside of the home) the same thing as Cellphones?

Only in as much as it is all microwave radio of some or other sort.
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