A serious question for Entomo

**Victim** · Moderator

What are we going to do about the bees?!?

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Entomo · Legendary

Victim wrote:

What are we going to do about the bees?!?

The genetic pool is not lost. Nobody among the scientists know what's going on, what's happening to them. I "sense" a gap inside their evolutionary line. They are changing, maybe mutating, and this is causing an HUGE RIPPLE moving through their density line. It's like a mutation quake.
They are disappearing because they are changing. Only some of them.
Most are dying.
But they are not "lost".

Hopefully, this helps.

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TinyTerror · Villain General

Entomo wrote:

Victim wrote:

What are we going to do about the bees?!?

The genetic pool is not lost. Nobody among the scientists know what's going on, what's happening to them. I "sense" a gap inside their evolutionary line. They are changing, maybe mutating, and this is causing an HUGE RIPPLE moving through their density line. It's like a mutation quake.
They are disappearing because they are changing. Only some of them.
Most are dying.
But they are not "lost".

Hopefully, this helps.

So what you're saying is that you have no idea, but you're going to commit conjecture to the topic for the sole purpose of breeding discourse...Or at least I hope that's what you're doing and that you're not trying to advertise your "special" ability to communicate with insects.

What we COULD do about the bees, however, is make sure that we keep some of the genetic code around in order to repopulate them once we figure out just what is going on. You can call me a Godless heathen for suggesting that, but I think God would rather have us save one of his creatures than allow us to watch them disappear simply because we were afraid to invade his "territory". So long as we're not requesting worship, I'd say it's a safe bet to study the bees and their disappearances very closely and then follow-up with re-population strategies.

Entomo · Legendary

TinyTerror wrote:

So what you're saying is that you have no idea, but you're going to commit conjecture to the topic for the sole purpose of breeding discourse...Or at least I hope that's what you're doing and that you're not trying to advertise your "special" ability to communicate with insects.

I'm not promoting my abilities, neither I can't "communicate" with insects (to begin with).
I'm just explaining what I feel when I'm near bees AT THE MOMENT. They are sensations going beyond time and space.
Do you not believe me? It's okay, TT.

I don't know what to do for them. They are following their natural destiny. They are evolving. That's what I feel.

**Victim** · Moderator

The Doctor said the bees are returning to their homeworld...

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Entomo · Legendary

Victim wrote:

The Doctor said the bees are returning to their homeworld...

Homeworld?

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**Victim** · Moderator

Oh, and I think even Entomo knows that it isn't possible to communicate with insects. Humans can't comprehend the insect mind, it strikes us as a dichotomy that we currently have no way to relate to.

A single insect is like a neuron in our brain. It sees, hears, and reacts to stimuli, yet possesses no inate 'intelligence' of its own. The whole brain does not suffer if some die, it just becomes weaker in intangible ways until the losses are catastrophic.

Yet we cannot communicate with the whole either, since it has become part of the natural processes that keep the entire biosphere going, and we can't exactly talk to the planet either. The bees are dying because the world is changing (undoubtably our fault), and there isn't currently any answer for what we can do about it.

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**Victim** · Moderator

Entomo wrote:

Victim wrote:

The Doctor said the bees are returning to their homeworld...

Homeworld?

That was a joke, a referrence to Dr. Who.

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Entomo · Legendary

Victim wrote:

Oh, and I think even Entomo knows that it isn't possible to communicate with insects. Humans can't comprehend the insect mind, it strikes us as a dichotomy that we currently have no way to relate to.

I pretty much know how they feel --- sometimes my mind works as theirs. But no... I can't communicate with them.
They communicate in a very un-human way, trust me.

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Entomo · Legendary

Victim wrote:

Yet we cannot communicate with the whole either, since it has become part of the natural processes that keep the entire biosphere going, and we can't exactly talk to the planet either. The bees are dying because the world is changing (undoubtably our fault), and there isn't currently any answer for what we can do about it.

It's not so simple.
They are evolving. They are trespassing a new territory in their personal affirmation on nature. That implies death and rebirth.

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**Victim** · Moderator

Out of the millions of hives that exist, there have to be at least some that are running the new program already, so perhaps this is the start of the new cycle, because the current lot of bees aren't going to be around for very much longer.

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Entomo · Legendary

Victim wrote:

Out of the millions of hives that exist, there have to be at least some that are running the new program already, so perhaps this is the start of the new cycle, because the current lot of bees aren't going to be around for very much longer.

Something along these lines.
Just remember they don't think linear. Their logic is different.
Their logic fluctuates. It's about fluctuations.

The Shisa · Hero In Training Lv. 2

And here I thought they were just mindless drones, who's only job is to serve the hive.....

Heh. Sounds like a typical office worker.

Dark Mystic · Newbie

TinyTerror wrote:

What we COULD do about the bees, however, is make sure that we keep some of the genetic code around in order to repopulate them once we figure out just what is going on. You can call me a Godless heathen for suggesting that, but I think God would rather have us save one of his creatures than allow us to watch them disappear simply because we were afraid to invade his "territory". So long as we're not requesting worship, I'd say it's a safe bet to study the bees and their disappearances very closely and then follow-up with re-population strategies.

That's actually really smart thinking. I hope scientists out there are doing such things. I also wonder if anyone has been keeping track lately on roughly how many we're losing a year. Clearly there are enough farms out there to keep us well stocked in honey... so is it only wild bees disappearing or are the bee farmers of the world seeing all their bees vanish overnight? Food for thought.

I've heard some speculation that it could be due to global warming and the changing weather patterns...

master legend · Caped Crusader

Tothian is an eye witness of how hornets and fire ants will not even bite me, you have to be in tune with nature.Entomo shares great knowledge.

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Harbinger · Member

Facepalm indeed.

Scientists have now discovered that bees are able to recognize faces. They even have a dance for facial recognition.

K9 · Hero In Training Lv. 2

By the way, regardless of how in-tune with nature you may be; I'd suggest that the best way to avoid being bitten by fire ants or stung by hornets, is to just avoid them entirely.