I wonder about many things.
One of the things I wonder about is what the effects of technology are on the environment.
Not in an "Al Gore" way, but in a honey bee way.
I used to be addicted to wanting to attend seminars. I say 'wanting to' because I could not afford to attend many.
But at one I managed to scrape up the money to go to, I heard the speaker say pretty much what I said above. His wondering was more along the lines of 'how does technology effect our minds'.
That stuck with me, because I am one of those people whose mind is easily effected by, well, lets call it 'stuff'.
So, yesterday on Martha Stewart some guy was talking about the mysterious deaths of honey bees. I cannot tell you much about it, because I was in another room holding a sleeping Baby Boy.
But, it was obvious that no one knows why so many honey bees are not showing up in hives they are expected to be in.
I blame technology.
Bees buzz. Bees find their way by buzzing.
It would seem that our entire atmosphere is buzzing with technology.
It confuses me. How could it not have the same effect on a creature as simple as the honey bee?
So that's my theory, and I'm sticking to it.
Well, that or my other theory that diabetes is striking them dead.
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Gotta love your alternative theory!
Nancy
I second your theory (not the diabetes theory). I know I can't find my way half the time either and I'd like to blame that on technology too!
I actually quite like the diabetes theory. Perhaps we should leave out little insulin filled flowers to rejuvenate the dwindling bee masses.
That makes a lot of sense to me.
Actually, what's killing honey bees is a form of lice that's going in and eating the eggs of the bees, or at least that's the way I understand it. I dunno how long you've been coming to my site, Judy...about a year...but I wrote an entry a year or so ago about starting Mason Bee houses in my yard to help encourage the Mason's to thrive. They don't sting and they are great pollenators. We gardeners here in Oregon are being encourage to put up Mason Bee houses to help them out because so many of the honey bees ARE dying. If you want to read up more on them, a Google search will take you to some great spots.
I...would tend to believe that.
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