Wake up North America!.............

brianlux

Spiritual_Chaos said:

I don't think we, as far as we've come as a species, have the right to kill any species and should do everything we can to protect the ones we have left. 

Totally agree! :plus_one:

Spiritual_Chaos

elvistheking44 said:

Meltdown99 said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Wouldn't there be an idea to have schools have bee hives and let kids care for them? Instead of having a class pet or an aquarium. 

Gee, I wonder what could go wrong with project...

My kids school has a bee hive. They sell the honey at fundraisers and such. It’s actually pretty cool and educational.

Seems I'm redeemed. 

lastexitlondon

Hornets here are really reddish  or a dark orange colour and huge . You can tell straight away because of size and colour. I have never been stung by one but i understand  they have a larger sting. I've grown to look at all these creatures  with a love and understanding that I try and pass on to the younger members  of my family  because  there is an hysteria around all flying stinging creatures . When really when left alone they are all just living their life in peace.

tempo_n_groove

lastexitlondon said:

Hornets here are really reddish  or a dark orange colour and huge . You can tell straight away because of size and colour. I have never been stung by one but i understand  they have a larger sting. I've grown to look at all these creatures  with a love and understanding that I try and pass on to the younger members  of my family  because  there is an hysteria around all flying stinging creatures . When really when left alone they are all just living their life in peace.

I have a big garden and the bees come around and pollinate and do what they do.  

There are family members that I scold and to stop "shooing" the bees.  They will go to the flowers just be patient.  Then they always do with nary a sting.

PJPOWER

tempo_n_groove said:

lastexitlondon said:

Hornets here are really reddish  or a dark orange colour and huge . You can tell straight away because of size and colour. I have never been stung by one but i understand  they have a larger sting. I've grown to look at all these creatures  with a love and understanding that I try and pass on to the younger members  of my family  because  there is an hysteria around all flying stinging creatures . When really when left alone they are all just living their life in peace.

I have a big garden and the bees come around and pollinate and do what they do.  

There are family members that I scold and to stop "shooing" the bees.  They will go to the flowers just be patient.  Then they always do with nary a sting.

Yeah, I’m around bees all the time in my garden and have never been stung.  I always try and plant several bee attracting plants around the perimeter to coax them in

rgambs

Yeah bees are friends, yellow jackets are devil's.
I've only ever been stung by a bee when I step on one barefoot.

mace1229

lastexitlondon said:

Hornets here are really reddish  or a dark orange colour and huge . You can tell straight away because of size and colour. I have never been stung by one but i understand  they have a larger sting. I've grown to look at all these creatures  with a love and understanding that I try and pass on to the younger members  of my family  because  there is an hysteria around all flying stinging creatures . When really when left alone they are all just living their life in peace.

Yeah, I never bother them either. I’m a firm believer in they leave you alone if you leave them alone.
only becomes a problem when they build their nest under my patio table. Or in my wood pile, or under where I kept my spare trash can. In all of those cases I got stung 5 or 6 times when I accidentally discovered it. Can’t really have a wasp nest under my patio table. 

cp3iverson

I do my part to destroy the wasp population everytime i see one.   Bees i leave alone.  We have a carpenter bee in the backyard who likes to F with the wasps.  Im good with that guy.  

brianlux

I always think of Jim Morrison when I read this thread title,

"Is everybody in?  WAKE UP!!!"

PJ_Soul

France is always ahead of the pack when it comes to stuff like this. It's very admirable, and I wish North America was more open to appreciating that and taking a lot more lessons from them and several other western European countries when it comes to enlightened views re the environment and various other things as well.

I know there are some outfits that are promoting home beekeeping. Apparently you can get trained and supplied with everything you need, including the bees, pretty easily and cost effectively, and set up a hive in your backyard in no time... There should be a lot more marketing of this though, and that marketing should be taken on by the provincial government IMO. I would love to see this whole concept really take off, and for the government to subsidize such programs. The only problem, though, is that some amateur beekeepers are accidentally letting their bees escape, and there are swarms of them harassing citizens. That said, there are now also companies that specialize in bee collection. So those being terrorized by the escaped swarms can call these collectors, and they'll come and take the bees away, and get them back into hives.
I recently learned that the Vancouver Police Department keeps bee hives on the roof of their HQ. They even had the bees blessed, lol. That's kinda cool.

lastexitlondon

Bee sound

tempo_n_groove

lastexitlondon said:

Bee sound

I hate buzzing in my ear actually...

Damn June bugs are the worst.

i_lov_it

There's still heaps of Bees here in Australia luckily...saw hundreds actually the other day swarming around a Bush think it was Jasmine...

PJ_Soul

i_lov_it said:

There's still heaps of Bees here in Australia luckily...saw hundreds actually the other day swarming around a Bush think it was Jasmine...

I have read, unfortunately, that while Australia has so far largely been spared from the worldwide bee shortage crisis, complacency within Australia about this may end up being the cause of a future crisis. Because the country isn't yet suffering from this the way most of the rest of the world is, no real measures to prevent it from happening later are being taken, and that includes a failure to ban many pesticides that have contributed to the problem in other places. Sounds like Australia needs to step it up in terms of stronger preventative measures. But that is good that the problem hasn't gotten bad there yet!

Smellyman

No worries.  Scott Pruitt will take care of this.  No more bees, no more bee problem.  You're welcome