{"id":281,"date":"2007-05-27T14:07:20","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T14:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=281"},"modified":"2007-05-27T14:07:20","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T14:07:20","slug":"thegreatbeecaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/thegreatbeecaper\/","title":{"rendered":"The great bee caper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/alex\/FlickrBee.png!\nIf you haven't heard this news story, it's a big one.  All over North America and Europe honeybee colonies are collapsing.  While it might seem like this is just another species going extinct in a world of death, this has serious human implications.  Most of our fruit crops are naturally fertilized by wild bees.  It's a process we haven't had to worry about for centuries but all of a sudden the bees are disappearing into thin air.\nThe phenomena is officially known as \"colony collapse disorder\":<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Disappearing_bees\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Disappearing_bees<\/a> and it could be devastating.  The biggest problem is that we can't even reach a conclusion as to why so many bees are deserting their hives, but since 1971 half the bees have disappeared in North America alone.  A simple \"Google search\":<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=bee+disappearance\">http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=bee+disappearance<\/a> yields 100's of causes and solutions.  Some of the leading causes could be pesticides, genetically modified crops, or even \"cell phone radiation\":<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2007\/05\/03\/healthscience\/NA-SCI-US-Honeybees-Weird.php.\">http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2007\/05\/03\/healthscience\/NA-SCI-US-Honeybees-Weird.php.<\/a>\nThe solutions being offered are not very impressive in that their scope is wide and various, but \"this article\":<a href=\"http:\/\/environment.guardian.co.uk\/conservation\/story\/0,,2084842,00.html?gusrc=rss&#038;feed=29\">http:\/\/environment.guardian.co.uk\/conservation\/story\/0,,2084842,00.html?gusrc=rss&#038;feed=29<\/a> in The Guardian is the most recent.  It suggests that bees should be kept by city dwellers to foster a greater \"bee friendly\" landscape.  Of course at this rate we may have to find a whole new solution.  Nanobots?\n\"Image\":<a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/encinoman\/515498886\/\">http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/encinoman\/515498886\/<\/a> from EncinoMan's \"Flickr! stream\":<a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/encinoman\/.\">http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/encinoman\/.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17,128],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-agriculture","tag-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}