Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices Message Board

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next

To: tejek who wrote (720035)	6/7/2013 8:30:21 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) of 1578811

Hi tejek; Yeah, all the silly disaster stories sold by the media as "news" are a real threat to human life. The academics, they would never tell you something that wasn't purely true, even if it meant they were able to attract funding and keep their jobs. Only in the liberal world. Here's some more peer reviewed literature on the anti-alarm side of the crisis in pollination (LOL): The role of native bees in apple pollination Pollination Biology Danforth Lab, Cornell University While honey bees (Apis mellifera) are widely viewed as the most important pollinators of agricultural crops, more and more evidence is suggesting that native bee species are in fact contributing significantly to crop pollination. Our surveys indicate that native bees may outnumber honey bees in many orchards and we are trying to determine what orchard management practices promote native bee abundance and diversity. danforthlab.entomology.cornell.edu An Assessment of Non-Apis Bees as Fruit and Vegetable Crop Pollinators in Southwest Virginia PhD Dissertation Major findings of this first study of its kind in the region were that non-Apis bees provided the majority of pollination — measured by visitation — for several economically important entomophilous crops (apple, blueberry, caneberry, and cucurbits); scholar.lib.vt.edu Twenty per cent of the overall crop production comes from crops that increase fruit and vegetable production with animal pollination ... These results support the contention of Richards (2001) and Ghazoul (2005) that primary food production, and especially our staple foods, is independent of insect pollination. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Buzziness as usual? Questioning the global pollination crisis Jaboury Ghazoul TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution 20, 7 (2005) www2.unine.ch -- Carl P.S. But you don't have to decide which of the dueling experts to believe. Both sides agree that almonds are the crop that is most dependent on honeybees for pollination. So if there is a crisis in pollination, the first place it will appear is in the prices of almonds. Here's the last 20 years price of almonds, moron: staging.hilltopranch.com Almonds are cheaper now than they were 10 years ago. This is true even though the above numbers are not corrected for inflation.

Report TOU Violation

Share This Post

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next