colony collapse disorder - radio 4 now

[jenkinsbrynmair]

You're just another immigrant being a burden on the French people.

Chris

Not really - I though the French tactic with that was to take you to Calais and tell you there's a free council house 22 miles to the West!!

 

[Chris Luck]

Not really - I though the French tactic with that was to take you to Calais and tell you there's a free council house 22 miles to the West!!

Huh, they would like to but they can't although they keep trying to find ways to block foreigners, many situations they try to use keep being taken back to the EU.

The statement "Bouter les Anglais hors de France"

has now become

"Bouter l'étranger hors de France".

so at least we are no longer singled out.

Chris

 

[Luminos]

...bouter??

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

A few years ago we were tasked to intercept some illegals coming accross the channel in a stolen French speedboat, when we reached them (just inside our territorial waters) we were told by the coastguard tug who was nearby that they had been there for three hours - escorted there from the French side by the French customs Vedette who was still guarding them and making sure they didn't go back in French waters!! when we took them off the boat for their own safety (they were hypothermic) the vedette took the speedboat in tow and disappeared back to France
You've gotta laugh

 

[Anduril]

22 chemicals in bee was BBC4's "Who Killed The Honeybee". A man from DEFRA quotes global warming, unfortunately we are in global cooling due to China emitting sulphur from their power stations.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

22 chemicals in bee was BBC4's "Who Killed The Honeybee". A man from DEFRA quotes global warming, unfortunately we are in global cooling due to China emitting sulphur from their power stations.

Hmm - so Chinese pollution is putting right what the rest of the world's pollution messed up in the first place. Hurrah the Chinese!!.
Or is this just the new scare story the handwringers are putting about now?
What next - Al Gore making a film about the polar bears with nowhere to swim because of all the bl**dy ice!

 

[Chris Luck]

Bouter, the classic example about the English attributed to Jeanne d'Arc.

Je suis ci venue de par Dieu le roi du Ciel, corps pour corps, pour vous bouter hors de toute France. — (Jeanne d'Arc aux Anglais, 1429.)

Old French, to drive, to push, to hit.

Mot ou expression qui n’est pratiquement plus utilisée dans ce sens mais encore d’usage,

Chris

 

[itma]

...The statement "Bouter les Anglais hors de France"

has now become

"Bouter l'étranger hors de France".

so at least we are no longer singled out.

From what I saw on a brief visit earlier this year, the re-colonisation of Aquitaine is nearing completion.

Seems like its the French that are being "booted" out.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Bouter, the classic example about the English attributed to Jeanne d'Arc.

Je suis ci venue de par Dieu le roi du Ciel, corps pour corps, pour vous bouter hors de toute France. — (Jeanne d'Arc aux Anglais, 1429.)

Old French, to drive, to push, to hit.

Mot ou expression qui n’est pratiquement plus utilisée dans ce sens mais encore d’usage,

Chris

Sheesh! and they had a go at me for using Welsh on the forum

 

[Foxylad]

Is America the only country to have CCD?
Seems as though it maybe several factors, what is the deference between our practices and there's? GM Crops, Pesticides, Corn Syrup, Mono Cultures, Commercial Practices.
Are they learning from or changing there practices? It seems strange that with all the investment and clever minds working on the problem. No one had yet found a deffernate caurse.

 

[Chris Luck]

I strongly suspect that if we were treated the way some bee colonies are treated then people would either leave home or simply loose the will to live which may go some way to explaining the phenomena......

.....alternatively it could all be an Al Qaeda plot.

Chris

 

[jaynie]

This is interesting - just been reading this paper from the US about a parasitic fly, Apocephalus borealis, which attacks bumblebees, it has 'jumped' host species and is affecting honeybees. The fly lays its eggs in the bee, which disorientates it and causes it to leave the hive at night. The bee dies and the larvae hatch and leave the poor lil bee's body to pupate. Nasty.
They can keep this one to themselves, I haven't mastered varroa extermination yet
The full article is here:
http://sandiegobees.com/honey-bees-and-phorid-flies.pdf

 

[Ruary]

Copied from Bee_l list:
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I thought that I would share this message with you.



Message from Joe Derisi on Media craziness: phorids and bees



It looks like the media has really run with the whole zombie-bee phorid thing. Charles and I are authors on that paper, but I want you to know that we do not agree with the statements being made in the press and by others, claiming that phorids are even remotely responsible for colony collapse.

You may hear from your stakeholders that are listening to the popular press today. The media is way over-hyping this story.

J
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[Luminos]

Quote: The media is way over-hyping this story.

Over-hyping? Surely not