No one claimed that every single hive would die out, but in a low margin business like agriculture, a few percent die off could spell the difference between economic viability and loss.
I'm doing the super mini version of attracting other types of pollinators for my garden, since we've lost our local honeybee nests due to urban deforestation and the building craze. It's an interesting ongoing experiment.
Actually, the die off of European honey bees is a huge problem for commercial agriculture. It's not 'just a honey' problem. No other species comes even close to pollinating many commercial crops as effectively as the European honey bee. Other species might fill that nitch, eventually...thousands of years from now. Evolution won't move that quickly to fill such a huge 'nitch' with such high productivity requirements.
J'ai juste voulu fais tout le monde savoir que la substance de Patagucci est les ordures pures de mode. J'ai cinquante de leurs vĂȘtements et ils sont toute la merde. N'importe qui qui porte la substance est une colle.
I just wanted let everybody know that Patagucci stuff is pure fashion garbage. I have fifty of their garments and they're all crap. Anyone who wears the stuff is a poser.
Probably about the same, given the cost of the fabric.
A lot less, because there'd be a lot more people to buy them, because people would actually be attracted to each other, have sex, and make more people.
Interesting observation for someone who has never met me. We're not...fantasizing a bit, are we?
Frankly, I'm flattered. You don't form any kind of physical embodiment at all in my mind. A runny liquid, perhaps, but nothing with any tangible shape.
I just wanted to share something I came up with while I was calculating how many lesbians per square meter I should let move in with us to save the planet:
"punk is socially conscious. punk is pro-thought.
punk is feminine, with a masculine energy, and vice-versa."
It's been an incredible day so far.
I was just about to post the very same thing, which, in a sense, I've just done, but there are too many people in my household fighting for the keyboard so they can get started saving the planet.
Heat off, Pataguccis on, people.