Sunday, May 20, 2007
Honey, where are you?
I had a passing thought about where the bees are going. And I figured that they just wised up and went somewhere where they could start a little jar of their own.
Is it the cell phones? Is it pesticides? Is it the mother ship calling them back? Will the earth die in two years without our busy stingy little honey making’ friends?
Probably not.
Honey bee...
I can say this with confidence because I know that if I’m wrong we’d all be dead and no one would come up to me and say that I was way off base with that whole bee thing.
Bea Arthur...
What I want to know is, have there always been bees? Were there prehistoric bees that pollinated the prehistoric plants? There had to be, right? And if there weren’t what did those plants use to get pollinated, Triceratops? Wouldn’t that be funny, the reason they had those three horns was to stick them in flowers and gather their sweet, sweet prehistoric nectar.
Granted, pretty much all the prehistoric plants are all dead now (and cost almost $4 per gallon) but for a couple billion years the plants did all right without bees. How did they do it?
I also want to know how much of the workload butterflies and humming birds carry. If the bees were gone would the butterflies quit flitting around and step up?
I’ve heard that the wild bees aren’t affected. Is this a good thing? The domestics disappear and the wild bees fill the void. Are we ready for wild bees? It would be like if all our cats died and they were replaced with Pumas. That would sure liven things up.
And what about the ducks?
I’m just saying…
Is it the cell phones? Is it pesticides? Is it the mother ship calling them back? Will the earth die in two years without our busy stingy little honey making’ friends?Probably not.
Honey bee...I can say this with confidence because I know that if I’m wrong we’d all be dead and no one would come up to me and say that I was way off base with that whole bee thing.
Bea Arthur...
What I want to know is, have there always been bees? Were there prehistoric bees that pollinated the prehistoric plants? There had to be, right? And if there weren’t what did those plants use to get pollinated, Triceratops? Wouldn’t that be funny, the reason they had those three horns was to stick them in flowers and gather their sweet, sweet prehistoric nectar.
Granted, pretty much all the prehistoric plants are all dead now (and cost almost $4 per gallon) but for a couple billion years the plants did all right without bees. How did they do it?
I also want to know how much of the workload butterflies and humming birds carry. If the bees were gone would the butterflies quit flitting around and step up?
I’ve heard that the wild bees aren’t affected. Is this a good thing? The domestics disappear and the wild bees fill the void. Are we ready for wild bees? It would be like if all our cats died and they were replaced with Pumas. That would sure liven things up.
And what about the ducks?
I’m just saying…
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