Still Waters Posted February 12, 2011 #1 Share Posted February 12, 2011 A Toronto museum is investigating the sudden death of thousands of bees in a glass-enclosed beehive exhibit.Officials at the Royal Ontario Museum said 20,000 bees in a biodiversity exhibit had died within two days last week, though they had appeared healthy. Scientists have ruled out staff error and starvation, but said poor ventilation, disease or a lack of worker bees could be to blame. The museum plans to replace the colony in the spring. Read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquatus1 Posted February 12, 2011 #2 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Huh. I'm a little worried about all the bees dying out in the wild. How the heck did they all die in there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daughter of the Nine Moons Posted February 12, 2011 #3 Share Posted February 12, 2011 McGowan has ruled out colony collapse disorder, a mysterious affliction that's been gouging the honeybee populations around the world. In colony collapse disorder bees leave the hive and never come back. But the bees at the ROM just dropped dead.Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/02/11/rom-bees-mystery.html#ixzz1DkNvg7e8 This is sad Joey and I have seen this exhibit at the ROM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
:PsYKoTiC:BeHAvIoR: Posted February 14, 2011 #4 Share Posted February 14, 2011 Huh. I'm a little worried about all the bees dying out in the wild. How the heck did they all die in there? That's a good question. Hopefully the museum officials will find the cause before acquiring a new colony of bees. We wouldn't want the same situation to happen again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WoIverine Posted February 14, 2011 #5 Share Posted February 14, 2011 hoping there's some kind of quarrantine going on for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magickaldan Posted February 14, 2011 #6 Share Posted February 14, 2011 Mass Suicide! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davedini Posted February 14, 2011 #7 Share Posted February 14, 2011 I'm sure that some fireworks scared them and cause them to go crazy and fly into stuff and suffer massive blunt trauma which in turned killed them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WoIverine Posted February 15, 2011 #8 Share Posted February 15, 2011 I'm sure that some fireworks scared them and cause them to go crazy and fly into stuff and suffer massive blunt trauma which in turned killed them. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkitecht Posted February 15, 2011 #9 Share Posted February 15, 2011 When the Monarch butterfly's were killed off back in '96,no one knew why at first.(3/4 of the population were killed off.Very significant number.)When they did some investigating,they found that the cause was something that had just started to be used in mass by none other than Monsanto.It was the GMO corn that had produced pollen that was geneticly modified as a pesticide.Sure it helped to keep the bugs away,but with the unwanted side effect of killing off other insects as well.Nowadays,there is the very same thing going on with the same company.Monsanto has created(and has the patents on)many new varities of GMO crops.The funny thing is,it's very obvious what has happened,and yet no one has played connect the dots.Look up on google,Monsanto GMO Roundup soybeans.Poison come's in many forms.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitana2010 Posted February 15, 2011 #10 Share Posted February 15, 2011 When the Monarch butterfly's were killed off back in '96,no one knew why at first.(3/4 of the population were killed off.Very significant number.)When they did some investigating,they found that the cause was something that had just started to be used in mass by none other than Monsanto.It was the GMO corn that had produced pollen that was geneticly modified as a pesticide.Sure it helped to keep the bugs away,but with the unwanted side effect of killing off other insects as well.Nowadays,there is the very same thing going on with the same company.Monsanto has created(and has the patents on)many new varities of GMO crops.The funny thing is,it's very obvious what has happened,and yet no one has played connect the dots.Look up on google,Monsanto GMO Roundup soybeans.Poison come's in many forms.. I agree, but how would that contribute to the death of these specific bees? They were kept in a glass exhibit, closed off from any contact with those kinds of chemicals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkitecht Posted February 15, 2011 #11 Share Posted February 15, 2011 @Kitana2010,my observation was on the world's bee population.As for what happened with these bee's in particular,the diagnosis made by the people who ran the exibit seemed reasonable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akatsuki-pein Posted February 16, 2011 #12 Share Posted February 16, 2011 wasnt it made public ( well not too public) through wiki leaks that the government killed them off with a pesticide THEY knew would kill them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fraust Posted February 20, 2011 #13 Share Posted February 20, 2011 LMAO @ #6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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