18 Replies to “I Will Miss The Bees”

  1. Hmm. Who remembers windshields smeared with dead bugs. That was a long time ago, it seems.

    2. Hmm, ‘member when cars were all cool looking
      And didn’t resemble soulless aerodynamic copy cat designs ?
      Better airfoil…less bugs.

      I miss my 77 T-bird with the 400cu V8….bug smasher !

  2. Conservation biology (theology) has unfortunately increasingly employed the (un)scientific method of merely coming up with a desired hypothesis then jumping to mitigation and amelioration, rarely doing the steps in the middle or limited to seeking evidence usually reinforcing the hypothesis rather than testing it. Compliant, scientifically illiterate, and lazy media helps in the malpractice. Journalists use a limited rolodex with all the usual green experts for comments and reinforcement.

  3. Saying the honey bees are increasing or decreasing is like saying the corn or soy bean crops are increasing or decreasing. It’s an industry.

    1. for a truly real environmental answer this is by a dr of science at university of washington who is a recognized and award winning scientist. watch it all but pay attention after 18 minutes,

    2. If honeybees are decreasing, the ones that are left are working a lot harder. Find any graph of historical honey production and the trend is a fairly steep increase. Sure there are ups and downs but there is no mistaking that honey bees are increasing over time.

  5. A lot of the US is plagued by another Chinese import (the dreaded Spotted Lantern Fly). For the last five years, they would pop out around the end of July and basically destroy all the fruit trees for the next few warm months…then lay their eggs and come back the next year. We were informed that there was nothing you could really do about it and that they didn’t have any natural enemies to control their population.

    Well, guess what. They were wrong. This year the yield of these little critters is down significantly. At first, I thought it might be due to the weather (a little cooler this summer than usual). Then I played around with the idea that the Fed Govt sprayed without telling anyone.

    But, no. I noticed the culprit just the other day while walking down the driveway. It seems the local wren population has discovered a new meal. And they seem to be very enthusiastic about it. Nature will find a way.

  6. Do the bug scientists who say the bugs are disappearing, ever speak with the environmentalists down the street who say we should (will?) be eating bugs en mass in a few years?

    I’m not on either team, and think it’d be more interesting to watch them in a cage match.

  8. A wasp fell into my 1/2 full wine glass this afternoon during a brief fall warm spell. Fished it out with a pine needle. It stumbled around a bit, dried off, then flew off.
    Hardy species.

    1. Dr Who, Ya mean it wasn’t three sheets to the wind, or flying sideways? Methinks you need stronger wine!

  10. I hear from people that North America will become a barren wasteland if the honeybees all die off.

    It’s amusing to see the expression on their face, when I point out that honeybees are not native here, but were imported from Europe by those evil colonizers.

    In fact, the natives first called them ‘White Man’s Flies’..

  11. I laugh when people insist that I don’t get rid of dandelions in my yard and when I see overgrown lawns in the spring as people try to save the bees. Meanwhile, out along every country road there’s a gazillion yellow flowers. I wonder what they are. Maybe bees have gotten really dumb.

  12. I laugh when people insist that I don’t get rid of dandelions in my yard and when I see overgrown lawns in the spring as people try to save the bees. Meanwhile, out along every country road there’s a gazillion yellow flowers. I wonder what they are. Maybe bees have gotten really dumb.

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