"More than a quarter of the country’s 2.4 million bee colonies have been lost — tens of billions of bees, according to an estimate from the Apiary Inspectors of America, a national group that tracks beekeeping. So far, no one can say what is causing the bees to become disoriented and fail to return to their hives." --NYTimes, April 24th 2007
Um...does this scare anyone else as much as it scares me?
In all of the apocalyptic movies, something weird starts happening to or with the animals before something bad happens to the human race. I guess I also didn't really realize how important bees are to the agricultural economy of the world...what happens if there is no pollination? No plants, no fruit, no vegetables, no food--I'm seriously freaking myself out now.
Check out the 1976 made for TV movie "Savage Bees" for a simpler time, a time when bees were just man's mortal enemy. It takes place in New Orleans! (with some sweet vintage shots of 70s Mardi Gras and the brand new SuperDome!)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0075166/
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I like how, instead of stinging a person to death like you would think would be the most efficient way to kill them, they instead fly into your mouth and kill you by over-eating. Thats my favorite bit.
I know! Wouldn't a body covered in stings make a person go down? And if not that, wouldn't the stinging of the tongue pretty much do anyone in? So savage...
You're leaving out the all-to-likely scenario of being attacked by bees while plowing, running to the water, and dying from a combination of swallowing water (i.e., drowning) and being stung by the lesser-known amphibious swimming bee caste. Now THAT's what keeps me up at night......Well, that and having agriculture disappear entirely.
I totally posted about this a few weeks ago on my blog! It's really eerie isn't it? Like they totally know something we don't know, and if a few months, when some apocolyptic disaster befalls us, we'll all be left screaming into the heavens "for the love of god! Why didn't we listen to the bees? THE BEES!"
Blogs are lame
except about killer bees
or you
There's a similarly awesome made-for-TV movie from the 70s that I recall from my youth that featured ants as the savage insect gone amok. It featured Suzanne Somers before she became 'famous' and she was the first victim of the evil ants. And I think she was naked when they got her.
Naked Suzanne Summers covered with ants will now be running through my head all day. Thanks Dave.
http://www.wdsu.com/video/13247364/index.html
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