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Did anyone see the programme on BBC4

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~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2**

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2** Report 23 Apr 2009 22:49

about the vanishing bees?

***wonders whether this is too serious for chat and whether I should have posted on general***

Lemon Nelly

Lemon Nelly Report 23 Apr 2009 22:54

Nope never saw it, I like bees

Uggers

Uggers Report 23 Apr 2009 22:55

Wasn't that Dr Who, SRS?:)

Amanda2003

Amanda2003 Report 23 Apr 2009 22:56

I watched most of it..........very alarming to say the least .

Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!)

Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!) Report 23 Apr 2009 22:56

Uggers go to bed - you're tiddled.

I meant to watch that programme but missed it - rats.

It sounds worrying. If we have no bees, some plants won't get pollinated and we'll therefore run out of oxygen and we'll all die. Is that it in a nutshell or was there something else? And how long have we got?

Jill

Researching:
London: Faber, Haysey, Spicer ...

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2**

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2** Report 23 Apr 2009 22:59

Yes Uggers, it was mentioned on my favourite show ahem but this was a serious documentary with serious people. Mind you it may have benefited from a guest appearance by David Tennant :-) There's no harm in wishing is there?

Actually the programme was quite worrying since we tend to survive because of the bees pollenating crops. It was telling of hives of bees mysteriously dying out across the world (Australia seems to be safe at the moment) One bee keeper in America where it is big business lost 360 out of 400 hives....the bees just vanished.

~~~waves to lemon~~~~

Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!)

Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!) Report 23 Apr 2009 23:00

Vanished?

Didn't they find any dead bees or something?

Is something eating them?

This is a bit weird ...

Jill

Researching:
London: Faber, Haysey, Spicer ...

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2**

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2** Report 23 Apr 2009 23:00

Mrs Grumpy......not long.....we may survive if we emigrate to Australia but don't take any bees with us to infect them....

Amanda2003

Amanda2003 Report 23 Apr 2009 23:01

Yes.......but the Cockney London bees where all healthy ......so all is not lost.

Uggers

Uggers Report 23 Apr 2009 23:02

Sorry:) night all:)

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2**

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2** Report 23 Apr 2009 23:02

Jill, there were some hives in the UK that had dead bees which was caused by an insect apparently but mysteriously a lot of the American bees just vanished in HUGE HUGE numbers. They couldn't even find out what happened to the bees, they were doing tests on the very few survivors of the hive because they don't know where the others went.

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2**

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2** Report 23 Apr 2009 23:03

Yes Amanda, if you emigrate to London or Australia....you should be fine :-) Sorry I think I'll opt for Australia, they had sun there :-)

Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!)

Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!) Report 23 Apr 2009 23:04

I'm going to have to catch up with this on the i-thingy.

Jill

Researching:
London: Faber, Haysey, Spicer ...

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2**

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2** Report 23 Apr 2009 23:10

They also mentioned a programme coming up about honey hunters or something like that. If it's the same one that I saw last year, where a guy from Britain went abroad to Nepal to look at the wild hives, it's well worth seeing. They climb the sides of cliffs to get the honey down.

Dakota

Dakota Report 23 Apr 2009 23:17

Sunday's Countryfile, showed that plants that had been treated with insectiside containing nicotine, also killed bees.
Co-op is putting up a lot of money to investigate this
And also our government is putting money in, hope it's not too late
The other thing thought to kill the bees is the Varroa mite ,a parasite.
scarey !

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2**

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2** Report 23 Apr 2009 23:18

Thanks Dakota, it was the Varroa mite that they mentioned but they seemed to think it was more than that (although I think that was the leading reason) They mentioned pesticides being a real possibility too and climate change.