Dark Huntress

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Originally Posted by Elsa Y'know some of us still feel cheated out of the havoc New Year's Eve '99 was supposed to bring. Wake me when it's really the end of the world and I'll bring the marshmallows

I felt like throwing my phone on the floor and crushing it to pieces the other day when I was at walmart. I went to text someone and instead of what I typed coming up was 'wal' it came up as 'Y2K' Seriously, if looks could kill that phone would have been scorched out of existance.

That Y2K crap was so rediculous, and had gotten so old. As is the talk of global warming today, well, and since at least the 70s, and come 2011 I know we will be hearing about the following year being "doomsday."

So old.

ForeverBlue

That's not good if the bees are disappearing o.O We need honey! lol

mysticwolf11

it's not just the honey, you know. Take a look at Bee Movie: If you remove bees from the equation, everybody loses. Not only is there no more honey, but there's no more flowers, no more fruits, no more vegetables, no more grain for bread. Without bees to pollinate everything our food sources can and will come to a complete standstill and cause utter chaos.

Oddly enough I've heard that as soon as an Antenna Tower, such as one used for Cell-phone services, comes up in an area, the Bee population within a certain radius drastically plummets. Maybe if there weren't so many cell phones in the world and not as drastic a need for these towers then perhaps the bees would come back.

Incredible RJ set thanks to Robbie!

Lonesnake

Bees only pollinate about 80% of all plants, so the only plants we have left will be the ones pollinated by wind, foragers, other insects (such as flies and carrion flowers), birds and water. We'll still have the plants, just not as many species or as much diversity (there's about 750,000 types of plant species out there and we find more every day)

- Thanks goes out to Elsa

MagiMermaid

I hate bees.

I saw that movie with Jerry Seinfeld, still hated bees.

Be gone D:

Set by Archangel

Dark Huntress

Bees are only one form of pollinization. Sure they help, but they are hardly the only source out there. And it's a good thing because there is no way bees would be able to pollinate all of the plants that grow today.

It's been years since I studied plants in school, but I know for a fact that some plants can pollinate themselves, and other plants, like the apple trees just out side my window, are close enough that the wind is sufficiant enough to pollinate them. Pollinators can range from all forms of bugs, to animals, and humans, and again, even the wind plays a factor.

It's just another cry of wolf. I'd be willing to place 10 bucks on that even though this article states bees are dying out another one says they are actually making a comeback. You can't just stop and read two or three articles and say, yes, this is the way it is. You have to see both sides before making a decision. And there are almost always at least two sides to every story.