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Normally I can’t be assed with people who tell me the world is “coming to an end”. It always seems to be but never actually happens.
But the bee’s dying off does worried me.
Has a child there seems lots of bee hives. At my local church the vicar was ½ mad bee-keeper who use honey to make mead. I can’t remember the last time I saw a bee hive or a honey bee , they seem to be like most of the things from my childhood, sold off, banned or replaced by cheap imports.
With the bee’s disappearing we have few options, we can’t simply replace them. Its just not a European problem.
For those of you who were off school the day the cover plant biology, the bee’s play an important part of all plant reproductive cycle. (Without them their can’t be any new plants.)
What really worries me is that no one seems to know why the bee’s are dying off. Their seems to be no reason for it. Our government is spending £8 million on research over the next few years, which I feel is too little too late.
We are running out of time, (no bee’s, no plants no food), its time we ask our governments to work out what is more important, £35 billion bank bale-outs, high fuel prices or life on earth.
There are lots of other pollinators, but I agree the loss of honey bees is definitely a cause for concern. They have been saying for years it’s mites that carry a virus, but I think the problem is pesticides that are directly affecting them.
hedgehogs are another animal slowly declining
I never use slug pellets anymore for that reason
and make sure part of my garden is left a little wild so they can have cover
(well thats my excuse)Pekenise i dont see many of them about lately either
slugs seem to have multiplied though
*throws a whole packet of slug pellets in her borders*
stuff the hedgehogs 8)
Ducks thats what ya need
I watched a film recently where the same thing happened. Bees had all died off, due to plants and trees releasing dangerous chemicals (not true I know, but still rather interesting) The film was called ‘The Happening.’ and this thread reminds me of that film. In the film the theroy was that if all bees died, humans would go 4 years later. Scary!
Where I live, in Somerset, we’ve now had 3 years with hardly any wasps around. Usually in late August / early September you can’t eat outside becaus of the number of wasps around. Not so for the last 3 summers. That, to me, is a good thing – I hate wasps!
I aint seen any 9 banded armadillos recently either but i must go see if theres any black squirrels locally Greys are not so cocky now eh :twisted:
I suspect the recent increased use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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