The threats to bee populations

 

This was up on X:


… and methought let’s run a post on it. Then there was Yorkshire Wolds Weather’s post:


I mentioned running a blogpost on the dangers to the bees but when I started exploring … afraid I couldna go past this “AI” below:

Bees face severe global declines driven primarily by habitat loss, intensive agriculture, pesticides, climate change, and pathogens. The loss of wildflowers, hedgerows, and nesting sites, alongside exposure to toxic chemicals like neonicotinoids, disrupts foraging and reproduction. Parasites such as Varroa mites, along with emerging threats like microplastics, pollution, and disease from managed hives, threaten both honey bees and wild species.

Key Threats to Bee Populations

  • Habitat Loss and Fragmentation: Intensive farming and urbanization destroy wildflowers, meadows, and nesting sites (soil, hedgerows) that bees rely on, creating a shortage of food and shelter.
  • Pesticides and Chemical Exposure: Pesticides, including insecticides and fungicides, weaken bees, disrupt navigation, and directly kill them. “Pesticide cocktails” and herbicide use further complicate survival.
  • Govt messing with the weather: Unpredictable springs disrupt hibernation and force bees out of sync with flower blooming times. Extreme weather also makes recovery difficult.
  • Pests and Disease: The Varroa destructor mite, which sucks blood from bees and spreads viruses, is a major cause of colony collapse. Other pathogens can be transmitted between managed and wild bees.
  • Invasive Species: Non-native species can introduce new diseases or compete for resources.
  • Newer, Emerging Threats: Recent studies highlight novel threats including air pollution, microplastics in hives, and light pollution affecting nighttime pollinators. [1234567]

Impact of Bee Decline
The loss of bees significantly affects ecosystems and agriculture. Without these pollinators, many plants cannot reproduce, and food production for crops like apples is threatened. In some highly affected areas, such as parts of China, the lack of natural pollinators has led to the need for hand-pollination.

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We need those bees. Manmade messing with agriculture, horticulture is a no-no.

Sat Morn Mat

 

Might as well go straight to a film … was thinking that the 30s, if the copy is all right, is a nice type of film … fashions, manners, all sorts of things.

However, it was also often raunchy, risque, even post-code. (Continued below movie…)

(Continued) The plot of this one is “Rich woman runs over man on the road.” That’s it. Uh huh. So what fills the running time then? There seemed to be a strong accent on this sort of thing in the 30s, prewar. After … not so much, much darker, more hardbitten.

Saturday [6 to 10]

(0815)(0825)

 

10. Deryl corner


9. Pull the other one


8. Ridding themselves of nuisance investigators


7. Germany and Lexus


6. Steve corner

“In the 1990s Cathy O’Brien became known alleging that she was a victim of a U.S. government mind-control program associated with “Project Monarch,” which was an offshoot of MKUltra.”

JH: Brice Taylor was another well known whistleblower.

“Seeing is believing. They already had 2x MK hearings that did shit. And besides, it all moved far beyond classic MK-Ultra. MK-Delta was the culmination of MK-Ultra. MK-Naoimi & the eugenics vax was an MK subproject.”

“John Gittinger was testifying at the 1977 Church Committee, saying it was all over, while simultaneously MK-Ultra programming me in Sydney. MK-Ultra never stopped – it simply branched off into other related projects.” (Fiona Barnett)

As per @RepLuna today. The House Oversight Committee is finally holding a hearing on MK-Ultra. We hope the hearing and the findings will be made immediately public. 50+ years of Mind Control programs MUST END.

Only scratching the surface … try Ewen Cameron, Selwyn Leeks, GH Estabrooks, Jolyon West, Sid Gottlieb.

Saturday [1 to 5]

(0539) Bright, a break in cloud, planes not chemtrailing yet. (0605) Oh, there they are, the planes. (0652) Yep, criss-crossing the sky, laying their poison, no one tries to stop them through letters to MPs. (0704) Have a lovely aluminium and other particle sky, water and land day, good reader. (0705)

 

5. To our ladies

… it’s just a joke, I didn’t mean it, don’t hurt me, aaaggghhhhh!!! 😩

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4. Steve at 1370

  • Trump Slaps 25% Tariff on European Union Cars, Says Bloc Not Complying with Trade Deal
  • DOJ Uncovers Numerous Ways the Biden Admin ‘Devastated the Lives of Many Christian Americans’ 
  • Judge Slams Lower Court, Quashes All Felony Charges Against Township Clerk Stephanie Scott For Refusing To Give Up 2020 Election Equipment (shades of Tina Peters)
  • Democrat Activist Texas Judge Rules State Agency Must Greenlight 400-Acre Islamic City Near Dallas
  • Iran’s Ayatollah Threatened US Military Then Immediately Regretted It
  • Why Green Energy Can’t Simply Replace Hydrocarbons: A Matter of Survival
  • Liberal Democrats Admit Human Rights Breach After Removing Candidate “Because He is Christian”
  • What Is MKUltra? Anna Paulina Luna Announces Hearing (JH: Hope her security is good, better than the letter agencies’)
  • Much more.

3. Thinking as clever as “AI” and Rachel Reeves

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2. DAD at 1370

a) The Silence at the Old Bailey: Why is the Starmer Arson Trial being buried?

b) AfD hits highest nationwide polling level in Party history.

c) France’s Nicotine Ban sparks EU legal showdown.

d) On the seventh-floor landing, life revolves around the comings and goings, the slamming of doors, the general noise. And, at times, the lingering scent of cannabis. In this building on Boulevard de la Mission-Marchand in Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine), police intervened on Tuesday to free two teenage girls who were prostituting themselves.

e) Everyone sees the fantasy — Eiffel Tower, luxury, perfect pastries. But behind the beautiful postcard is a country quietly falling apart: overflowing garbage, broke government, collapsing wages, and millions fleeing the “French Dream”.

1. Today at HQ plus at OoL

Over the way, I’m currently opening with:

Saturday morning and I’ve gathered material on these main themes:

  • Wind turbines and solar farms
  • AI and data centre requirements
  • Seed and other oils, e.g. olive
  • State pensions
  • Whitbread
  • Inheritance tax
  • Raped girls and princesses
  • May 7th and the political spectrum

There were some side issues too, e.g. Tom Hanks’s own lust island v Greece.

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/05/ai-and-its-requirements.html

Friday [16 till close of play]

(1419) A bit early I know but slow posting here-on-in.

 

23. Important news about catfish


22. Unclear about Karoline Leavitt’s baby

… she seems to have had the baby girl but other reports say not yet.


21. Steve corner

a. Hearts of Oak: Chris Salcedo -The Latino Vote Flipping the Script: Faith, Family & Rejection of Leftist Identity.

b. Helium:


20. Corporate mendacity


19. The tea ritual


18. What can we raid of yours?


17. Uh huh


16. Now … this woke advertising

Readers know I do reaction vids to songs and some of the best reviewers are black. These guys can feel the music, they treat it with respect, pointing out this or that.

Now I had to say that because I was listening/watching Paul Temple before embedding here … think you know what those serials are about, the sort of people. Suddenly, mid dialogue, they ran this ad with the “person” below leaping at us from nowhere, yabbering and filling the screen:

Screwfix. Well sorry but screw Screwfix. By way of contrast, here’s a song reaction:

So we’re talking nature, responsiveness, lack of “in yer face with machetes”. Don’t get me wrong … there are massive mamas everywhere now throwing the weight about … it’s woke Screwfix I’m down on here.

And then this one:


WTH has that regulation black have to do with us wanting to take that train? Completely out of context, unneeded, imposed upon us. Well, TPE, never knowingly going to travel with you. Unless you stop doing it.

And the quality of the ads today? Utter dross … low IQ, putting on silly voices. And the “music”? Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel. The only ad music I can stand today is the TUI ad.

May Day radio play

 

Trying to get an archive going of radio plays and of course films, so that we can just dip into them when required. Now yes, of course you can just go to YT but they’re ad free here. It does require you jotting down or bookmarking the post though, otherwise it involves copious scrolling. This is the last Temple for now, a good’un. This afternoon is the Holmes which started it for Basil Rathbone.

May Day or M’aidez, whatever [11 to 15]

(1000) Hope y’all rockin’ along there … tech probs on hold here or temporary solutions found. (1018)

 

15. Thetford GS and evil Labour


14. Pesticide liability


13. The “modern” energy bollox


12. The least suited are appointed


11. Just mentioning it


I keep getting told that lekky is the killer … and well it may be soon, esp. with egregious heat pumps … but for me, it’s as nothing to gas and water, each of which set me back around £65-70 a month … lekky costs me around £35. Food and liquid is around £180.