zombie bees?

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  1. friggital

    friggital Member

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    I read an article about zombie bees. I dont think the average person realizes how important bees are to us, so big deal or no biggie? what do you think
     
  2. dixie_pixy

    dixie_pixy HighMandi

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    Um... zombie bees are a VERY big deal!!! Why wouldn't it be?

    As far as their importance to us... duh!
     
  3. friggital

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    yeah... but now you and I know it,,, does anyone else?
     
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    saving the bees will save the human race, and Im not about that.. really..
     
  5. friggital

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    lol, let us die out in a natural way?
     
  6. jaredfelix

    jaredfelix Namaste ॐ

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    news link
    Yeah I heard about this yesterday, unsure why they call them zombie bees though, not like they die then come back to life.
    Something to do with parasitic fruit flies.. "A small adult female lands on the back of a honeybee and injects eggs into the bee's abdomen. The eggs hatch into maggots. Eating the bees insides"
     
  7. friggital

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    yeah, its a parasite. the bees fly all goofed up and do weird things. would be better to call em drunk bees
     
  8. JeepDrew

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    You can freeze a bee and when you take it out and warm it up it will come back to life!
     
  9. anonisacat

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    zombie bees- bees that bite humans, and eventually turn the entire human race into bee lusting zombies. :)
     
  10. jaredfelix

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    I used to freeze flies and then tie a piece of thread to them to have a pet fly on a leash lol.
    Awh poor Dixie I think she has a thumbs down stalker lol
     
  11. dixie_pixy

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    LOL, I think I do too! I've had sooo many thumb downs lately. Must have pissed someone off!

    But, seriously, I would love to try the freezing thing. That would be an awesome zombie bee!

    We really should respect our bee friends. They are essential to the growth of our produce!
     
  12. Yog-Sothoth

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    this thread isn't vegan
     
  13. in the woods

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    we loose our bees were done
     
  14. jaredfelix

    jaredfelix Namaste ॐ

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    There's plenty of bees, are they just trying to scare us? I had like five honey bees flying around me yesterday.
     
  15. Sam101

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    Albert Einstein had said that the world would have roughly 4 years after the bees disappeared. So.. Zombie Bees are a big deal.. if it leads to greater bee die off...

    Of course, I'm sure we could come up with a solution of some kind to do without the bees.

    Of course it's easier to just let them "bee"....
     
  16. slappysquirrel

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    there's a fungus that affects different ants, grasshoppers, crickets etc. and turns them into zombies too.

    and there's a type of worm that affects some cricketts and stuff that makes the bug committ suicide and then the worm comes out as an adult. usually they drown themselves somehow.
     
  17. Sam101

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    There was something about cats too... They have this disease (germ or something), they carry that actually MODIFIES human behavior as well.

    Too bad I don't have that article on hand, it was an interesting read.
     
  18. jaredfelix

    jaredfelix Namaste ॐ

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    Cataids?
     
  19. inkgal8290

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    the issue of virus bacteria genetic plus gm cross pollination to name a few alone are huge issues.
    hay life is looking kind of edgy.
    however these are the great challenges facing us.
    i find the most difficult aspect of this is finding a mental language that can contain contempory events .this is one of the perilous aspects of post modernity is that phenomena has outstripped experiencal linguistics..hence rendering us so very vulnerable …as we ..popularly…have a diminished linguistic paradime of foundation upon which to base thought.
    This is why if you "lie" to people long enough they will believe it.
    it was that way before modernism because of a communication monopoly..that is the the way we are headed today…..if not already there......because of a communication monopoly.
    Post modernity or even the supposed post post modernity(could we venture forth the theory that its really "LaTe CaPiTaLiSm") is particularly slippery I put forth the theory that Marshall McLuhan was right. and more recently(well 30 years back) Jacques Derrida was right.
    The media has become reality…on top of that we are deep in the"cult of persona".....what do you think? was he right?? ...Marshall McLuhan argues that technologies — from clothing to the wheel to the book, and beyond — are the messages themselves, NOT the content of the medium.

    That reminds me…..of some lines from my favorate obscure Australian song from the early days.by the mighty
    Regurgitator

    'scuse me homies could you please be my cronies
    and score me a two pack of soft yellow foamies
    'cause i'm the type of guy that puts safety first
    no safer mother f..... ever walked the earth
    strapped in all wheel huggin' dual bag inflation
    safer than programmed amplitude modulation
    feeling a strange sensation? that's your brain son
    suffering from over-stimulation, inflamation
    by my reckoning you now have five seconds before lapsing into a coma
    tick this box to indicate you're a donor
    would it be bold to say i told you
    to hold the last bar over and over and over.

    anyway...i think ...its only a matter of time before we get a strain of hiv type retro virus or super antibiotic resistant bacteria that transmitts like the common cold.
    as for the bees...its serious ...canary in a cole mine syndrome?
    cheers ink8290. derr
     
  20. PurpByThePound

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    the fungus is called cordyceps
     

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