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2020-05-03 Science & Technology

Alarm over deaths of bees from rapidly spreading viral disease

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Posted by Clem 2020-05-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Not in North Texas. We planted four Eggleston Holly trees last fall, and they have been covered in honey bees all this week!

But beware of the bee-killing Giant Asian Hornet, invading from the Pacific Northwest! (h. t. Mrs. Bobby)

Posted by Bobby 2020-05-03 01:00|| 2020-05-03 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Good! Glad to see the bees out there!

Posted by Clem 2020-05-03 01:02|| 2020-05-03 01:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Read a trash thriller recently, 'The Demon Crown,' by James Rollins. All about killer hornets sent from Asia in a terrorist plot.

Posted by Glenmore 2020-05-03 01:05|| 2020-05-03 01:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Honey bees been dying off for what, a decade now?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-03 04:04|| 2020-05-03 04:04|| Front Page Top

#5 g(r)omgoru, they started fussing about fifteen years ago. There are more up to date articles, but Call off the bee-pocalypse: U.S. honeybee colonies hit a 20-year high from 2015 has an interesting graph. It’s behind the paywall, but you should be able to read it if you drop the headline in the Google search app.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-03 07:54|| 2020-05-03 07:54|| Front Page Top

#6 And now the "murder hornet"...someone sent me this today

Posted by Clem 2020-05-03 07:59|| 2020-05-03 07:59|| Front Page Top

#7 if someone is in need of a grant you can be sure that they will suddenly discover it is a 'new more virulent strain'

Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-05-03 08:34|| 2020-05-03 08:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Shhhh, not so loud. Pelosi might try to slip that into the next recovery bill.

Posted by Clem 2020-05-03 08:45|| 2020-05-03 08:45|| Front Page Top

#9 #5 Right. 10 (actually almost 12) was when I was exposed to the problem.

It’s behind the paywall, but you should be able to read it if you drop the headline in the Google search app.

Neh, I don't care about pollination (professionally) anymore.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-03 08:52|| 2020-05-03 08:52|| Front Page Top

#10 Well, the disease has been around since Aristotle, so 10 years is quite the conservative number.

Posted by DooDahMan 2020-05-03 09:29|| 2020-05-03 09:29|| Front Page Top

#11 Giant 'murder hornets' that kill up to 50 people a year in Asia have invaded the US: Scientists desperately try to stop spread of predator bugs that decimate bee colonies

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-03 10:53|| 2020-05-03 10:53|| Front Page Top

#12 Treat the hives the same way American foulbrood (another bed disease, fungal, I believe) is treated: dig a 6' deep hole, pile in the hive and all the tools and gear used to work with it. Douse in kerosene and light.

Repeat the burning until nothing recognizable remains, then fill in the hole.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-05-03 17:35|| 2020-05-03 17:35|| Front Page Top

#13 Commercial monoculture crops are making necessary the movement of "mercenary bee colonies" that are trucked from site to site to allow for pollination -- the rest of the time there is no way there are enough flowering plants to support the necessary hives. So we are transporting the infection across great distances -- Hurrah for industrial agriculture!

Posted by magpie 2020-05-03 18:00|| 2020-05-03 18:00|| Front Page Top

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