Because a Two State Solution was No-Where in Sight

Entomologist shares idea to solve bee crisis

Dr. Spivak’s approach relies on nature’s law of the survival of the fittest (natural selection), and some encouragement from humans (artificial selection).

A glimmer of hope! Someone has the good sense to do nothing. We need to find a big word for this.

Non-Crisis and Non-Cause-for-Alarm Forces PR Jokers into High Gear

Plan Bee.. how City banks are trying to save the humble bee

There is an acute bee crisis in the UK so putting them on top of the Stock Exchange seemed to make sense,"

Stunningly bad alliterations aside, no more than anywhere else, but, like, whatever.

Morons and Exploiters of Sympathy...

They're a match made in heaven. After all, who knew that costly and pointless grocery store chain Whole Paycheck Whole Foods, was running an online "Film Festival"? Think of all the carbon being expelled heating up those servers and copper wires! ForSHAME!

In any even, they too think that Bees are telling them something.

Pfft.

"Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?"– A profound, alternative look at the bee crisis from Taggart Siegel, award-winning director of "The Real Dirt on Farmer John." On a journey through the catastrophic disappearance of bees and the mysterious world of the beehive, the film weaves together a story of the heart-felt struggles of beekeepers, scientists and philosophers from around the world and uncovers the long-term causes that could create one of our most urgent food crises.

Whatever. I can't wait to see if they can remember all of this stuff, or move on to some other banner cause by the time reality comes to pay a visit.

It's a Religion Devolving into mere Ritual

Try to avoid the seeds and twigs and then watch the full length documentary film "Queen of the Sun: What are the Bees Telling Us?" that gives us a profound, alternative look at the global bee crisis.

Fake Crisis Still Selling Well in College Towns

Warm Winter Keeps Hives Busy as Bees

Sharon Friends of Conservation and Sharon Garden Club sponsoring showing of global bee crisis film Sunday.

Which, curiously enough, isn't global.

The Never-Ending Movie-enduced "Bee Crisis"

If it's news to you, that's because you haven't been propagandized yet by agitational activist types yet. The fact is that it's an illness, that man and his evil SUV driving had nothing to do with it, and that it's going away on its' own as nature travels its' course:

What's Going on in Princeton This Week?: Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?" examines the global bee crisis through the eyes of biodynamic beekeepers, scientists, ...

Elsewhere:

What's happening this weekend in Mercer County: Jan. 27-29: (further bee-extermination porn)


Spring line-up announced : On March 5, Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?

Get angry, people!

Heard any Cheesy Headlines Lately?

Soup to Nuts: Portland business is a honey of an idea

After he read a long article in the New Yorker about the honey bee crisis, he decided to take the plunge.

I guess this makes them the perfect candidates for modern farming.

The couple now has two hives.

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Listen to the bees; they're trying to warn us

Yeah, and the trees are talking to me.... I'm in paaaain! paiiiin!

The mysterious global bee crisis not only threatens agriculture worldwide; it's also a wake-up call to once-clueless suburbanites like myself.

It's one thing to undercut the contribition to humanity by suburbanites, it's another to think that a well documented mold-based disease is "mysterious".

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Every fake crisis needs its' orators

The international bee crisis needs to be addressed before we are really stung, says Green Party MP Sue Kedgley.

A Desperate Appeal for the Earth: through Interpretive Dance

Time to capitalize on it is running out

The poetic dance narrative was Nyarady's way of relating her research on the bee crisis. Part of the process is definitely trying to understand things

Actually it isn't. It's the actual crisis (if any). For the Arts to "understand and mobilize" is usually a sign that "the crisis", whatever it is, has graduated into somethign socially useful to them.

In that sense, the more fake their preferred horror is, the better it is for all of us.

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Scary bee eugenics replaces bee crisis

Building A Super Bee To Save Us From A Food Crisis

Mite-resistant bees are probably not the panacea to our bee crisis. Because while mites and viruses certainly contribute to our bee problems.

And you though that THEY thought that Genetically Modified Organisms are BAAAAAD.

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Film examines global bee crisis

In the film, beekeeper Gunther Hauk calls the crisis, "More important even than global warming. We could call it Colony Collapse of the human being too.

Judged in degrees of fakeness, he might be right.

A Festival of Ironies: the "Bee Crisis" meets Foodie Fetishes

Quotations from the oddly named:

"Their crisis is our crisis," says food guru Michael Pollan. So precious has bee-produced honey been considered over the ages that it was not even marketed...

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Tsunamis and reactor failures be damned!

Bee crisis could define 21st century.

An international panel of scientists found that more than a dozen factors, ranging from insecticides that damage a bee's memory to climate change...

In other words, the suspects with the highest propensity of getting the study's author either a) props or 2) moolah. Cabbage. Jack. Bling-bling.

Elsewhere, in the excuse and catalyst vehilce department:

Globe and Mail

If certain agricultural practices and public policies are changed, says Marie-Pierre Chauzat, one of the report’s lead researchers, a full-scale bee crisis can be averted.

Else-elsewhere...

Middle class fad for bee keeping sees doubling in number of hives

It's right up ther with the middle-class habit of getting passionate about 'crices' one only understands how to ritually imbibe in by reading the right papers.

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Minneapolis Star Tribune: What Are Bees Telling Us?

It tells me we have a pet issue that no-one understands but can advocate in the works.

The movie is a look at the global bee crisis examining the problems of monoculture and pesticides.

"Queen of the Sun," is said to offer a profound alternative look at the tragic global bee crisis. "Alternative" meaning, whatever one wants it to be, such as a "global" thing that goes undetected in south America and sub-saharan Africa.

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Now, it's an officially recognized fake crisis!

The UN on Thursday expressed alarm at a huge decline in bee colonies under a multiple onslaught of pests and pollution, urging an international effort to save the pollinators that are vital for food crops.

[... snip ...]

Honey bee colony declines in recent years have reached 10 to 30 percent in Europe, 30 percent in the United States, up to 85 percent in Middle East, said scientist Peter Neumann, one of the authors of the first ever UN report on the issue.

But in South America, Africa and Australia there were no reports of high losses.

In other words, it's a parasite as already established, not a platform to complain about pollution and human existence.

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Go Green, Jennifer Parrish: The buzz about bees

"A diet primarily of bread and gruel may be our future if we do not address the honey bee crisis"...

Pedantry and malthusian excess, all in one mouthful. What more could you ask for?

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New pesticides are 'killing honeybee population worldwide'
Daily Mail

Over the last few years, scientists have been baffled by the bee crisis in Britain, America and Europe which has seen numbers plummet in a decade.

ARE they, or COULD they?

The claims, which appear in an unpublished study carried out at the US Department of Agriculture's Bee Research Laboratory, add to the evidence that pesticides are partly responsible for the mysterious decline of one of the world's best loved insects.

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The Mystery of the Red Bees of Red Hook
New York Times

Finding some solution to the maraschino juice bee crisis — to all urban clashes of culture — is part of the project of New York, a wildly creative endeavor.

With "Hype" Placed in Scare Quotes

What would we do without an 'action plan'?

The European Commission has published a new action plan intended to shed light on reports of declining honey-bee populations across Europe, key pollinators for many of the bloc's important crop species.

At the same time, one the Europe's top scientists in the field has warned against mass hysteria, pointing out that most species have experienced epidemics at one stage or another over previous centuries, ultimately with little long-term effect.