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	<title>Comments on: Bee Killer Still at Large; New Evidence Makes Pesticides a Prime Suspect</title>
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		<title>By: Lea</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lea</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 00:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Likely it is a combination of many factors.
Climate/Environmental changes, pesticides, pollen from GM crops, disease (too many in not enough space), that stuff they spray from airplanes, etc.
Mayhaps humans may have to become nature fairies if they disappear completely.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Likely it is a combination of many factors.<br />
Climate/Environmental changes, pesticides, pollen from GM crops, disease (too many in not enough space), that stuff they spray from airplanes, etc.<br />
Mayhaps humans may have to become nature fairies if they disappear completely.</p>
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		<title>By: JD</title>
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		<dc:creator>JD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 22:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why are so may Apiaries planted beside highways?  If they knew how many thousands of bees are killed by vehicles each day that would solve half of this problem.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why are so may Apiaries planted beside highways?  If they knew how many thousands of bees are killed by vehicles each day that would solve half of this problem.</p>
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		<title>By: Erin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Erin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What needs to happen is a nation wide, actually world wide crop mob planting. Let&#039;s seed the interstate median strips, let&#039;s sow joe-pye weed and red clover in the abandoned fields and lots in Detroit. Let&#039;s start growing some pesticide free herbaceous vegetation and let the bees keep doing their thing. Nuff&#039; said.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What needs to happen is a nation wide, actually world wide crop mob planting. Let&#8217;s seed the interstate median strips, let&#8217;s sow joe-pye weed and red clover in the abandoned fields and lots in Detroit. Let&#8217;s start growing some pesticide free herbaceous vegetation and let the bees keep doing their thing. Nuff&#8217; said.</p>
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		<title>By: Della Rey</title>
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		<dc:creator>Della Rey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is so sad..... Bees need help! Maybe that&#039;s why the Mayan Calendar ends in 2012!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is so sad&#8230;.. Bees need help! Maybe that&#8217;s why the Mayan Calendar ends in 2012!</p>
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		<title>By: m</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/03/26/bee-killer-still-at-large-new-evidence-makes-pesticides-a-prime-suspect/#comment-17488</link>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rofl

CO2 makes the sky cloudier??   thanks for that...i needed a good laugh.

uh...FYI - clouds are mostly made up of water.

and i love the idea of introducing a &quot;predator insect&quot;.  yup...good idea.   we learned nothing from the Killer Bees.   Let&#039;s do it again!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rofl</p>
<p>CO2 makes the sky cloudier??   thanks for that&#8230;i needed a good laugh.</p>
<p>uh&#8230;FYI &#8211; clouds are mostly made up of water.</p>
<p>and i love the idea of introducing a &#8220;predator insect&#8221;.  yup&#8230;good idea.   we learned nothing from the Killer Bees.   Let&#8217;s do it again!</p>
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		<title>By: nick</title>
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		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bees see in ultraviolet. Clouds do not block UV rays.

And &#039;CO2 induced climate change&quot; affects the whole world, not just the USA.

Also, you said &quot;you believe.&quot; Scientific evidence?

The minor movements of true magnetic north are still so many thousands of miles away from us here in North America that it&#039;s not gonna matter. And the magnet field has ALWAYS wandered.

Lets face it, pesticides are, by design and by name, meant to kill insects. Systemic pesticides go in through plant roots usually (or the stomata on the leaves if it&#039;s a spray-on systemic) and become part of the whole plant. They are illegal (I hope; at the very least it is contravened on the labelling) to use on human food crops due to the fact that pesticides are toxic to us as well, and if they&#039;re part of the plant they&#039;re part of the fruit. Don&#039;t believe me ? Go read the label. It&#039;ll tell you to suit up like an astronaut before using, don&#039;t get it on exposed flesh, if you do rinse for 15 minutes with water, call poison control, etc.

A more sensible way of dealing with crop pests is the introduction and management of predator insects. Also expensive. The way we will probably end up dealing with this is through GMO crops - made by the same people that make these pesticides. &quot;Oh, don&#039;t worry about the bees, we&#039;ve invented apples and almonds and etc. that just pollinate themselves! No more pesticides needed either, because we bred natural pesticides into the plants too! And natural herbicides so they nuke any foreign plant near them. SAFE!!!!&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bees see in ultraviolet. Clouds do not block UV rays.</p>
<p>And &#8216;CO2 induced climate change&#8221; affects the whole world, not just the USA.</p>
<p>Also, you said &#8220;you believe.&#8221; Scientific evidence?</p>
<p>The minor movements of true magnetic north are still so many thousands of miles away from us here in North America that it&#8217;s not gonna matter. And the magnet field has ALWAYS wandered.</p>
<p>Lets face it, pesticides are, by design and by name, meant to kill insects. Systemic pesticides go in through plant roots usually (or the stomata on the leaves if it&#8217;s a spray-on systemic) and become part of the whole plant. They are illegal (I hope; at the very least it is contravened on the labelling) to use on human food crops due to the fact that pesticides are toxic to us as well, and if they&#8217;re part of the plant they&#8217;re part of the fruit. Don&#8217;t believe me ? Go read the label. It&#8217;ll tell you to suit up like an astronaut before using, don&#8217;t get it on exposed flesh, if you do rinse for 15 minutes with water, call poison control, etc.</p>
<p>A more sensible way of dealing with crop pests is the introduction and management of predator insects. Also expensive. The way we will probably end up dealing with this is through GMO crops &#8211; made by the same people that make these pesticides. &#8220;Oh, don&#8217;t worry about the bees, we&#8217;ve invented apples and almonds and etc. that just pollinate themselves! No more pesticides needed either, because we bred natural pesticides into the plants too! And natural herbicides so they nuke any foreign plant near them. SAFE!!!!&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: YouRang</title>
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		<dc:creator>YouRang</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No one has suggested failed homing mechanism.  I believe bees use a combination of sun and magnetic signals to navigate.  The direction of true north magnetic field in America changes more rapidly than in Australia (which hasn&#039;t had collapse syndrome).  Also the effect of CO2 induced climate change has lately been to make America cloudier so the navigation sense is also damaged.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No one has suggested failed homing mechanism.  I believe bees use a combination of sun and magnetic signals to navigate.  The direction of true north magnetic field in America changes more rapidly than in Australia (which hasn&#8217;t had collapse syndrome).  Also the effect of CO2 induced climate change has lately been to make America cloudier so the navigation sense is also damaged.</p>
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