Ahri-isms

gwen: freaky flexing. but alright

miles:

Gwen: you absolute heathen. It’s ‘This is tragic, google play All Star.’

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girlfriends

Which, yes, she’s skipping rope with milk that she’s lactating from her bazongas. It’s actually part of a set, the other one being titled ‘Lonesome Cowboy’:

Which features a Cloud look-alike lassoing with his cum. 

Murakami is well known for taking ‘low art’ subject matter (anime, hentai, penises) and placing them in ‘high art’ contexts. I actually saw Hiropon in personal with my own two eyes at the Denver Museum of Art back in 2009. A lot of what he does is satirical, and it’s honestly pretty funny to see pictures of his artwork in American museums, surrounded by confused white baby boomers. 

FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES MINE IS LITERALLY

The mighty.

DOCTOR

Honeybees are invasive in the United States. Raising honeybee colonies is detrimental to native bee populations that actually provide true ecosystem benefits. Keeping honeybees to save the bees is like keeping chickens to help the native bird population, (only worse, because honeybees are horrible for native bee populations like local bumblebees, which are the pollinators among others we should be trying to save more specifically) . Honeybees were imported and domesticated long ago, but their populations are aggressive and more adaptive due to being invasive – honeybee populations have risen by 4.5% while localized native species’ populations are declining, and honeybees displace/destroy native bee populations. Honeybees in the USA thrive in larger numbers than bumbles, have longer living hives, and aggressively swarm around water/food sources, preventing bumblebees/other native pollinators like hummingbirds from doing their job. Honeybees have also been studied for the devastating effects of transfering disease and fungus to bumblebees populations, even in remote areas far from where farmers established honeybee populations. Many farmers and monocultures are definitely a major part of the problem. They import non native bees, soak single species fields in pesticides, exacerbating the problem (eliminating suitable habitat for native bees and introducing massive competition on top of that).

“From a typical bumblebee colony of a few hundred, only the young queens survive the winter, hibernating until they can start their own colonies in spring. Farmers usually buy new colonies from breeders each year. Honey bees, in contrast, live in colonies of up to 60,000 bees, and these colonies can persist indefinitely.” – From, ‘How The Bees You Know Are Killing The Bees You Don’t’ , Inside Science.org

If you want to help local bee populations, research and plant native flowers in your area, and attempt to find which flowers in particular they seem to prefer. Beekeeping honeybees, and planting non-native flowers (honeybees can pollinate and prefer non native flowers in many cases, they draw them in – always plant native plants if you can) is the opposite of helping. I cannot stress how important it is to NOT import non-native bees.

“The research team – three scientists from the University of Vermont and one from the University of Florida – explored 19 sites across Vermont. They discovered that two well-know RNA viruses found in honeybees – deformed wing virus and black queen cell virus – were higher in bumblebees collected less than 300 meters from commercial beehives. The scientists also discovered that active infections of the deformed wing virus were higher near these commercial apiaries but no deformed wing virus was found in the bumblebees they collected where foraging honeybees and apiaries were absent.Most impressive, the team detected viruses on 19% of the flowers they sampled from sites near apiaries. “I thought this was going to be like looking for a needle in a haystack. What are the chances that you’re going to pick a flower and find a bee virus on it?” says Alger. “Finding this many was surprising.” In contrast, the scientists didn’t detect any bee viruses on flowers sampled more than one kilometer from commercial beehives.”

what also scared me was “ Alger – an expert beekeeper and researcher in UVM’s Department of Plant & Soil Science and Gund Institute for Environment – is deeply concerned about the long-distance transport of large numbers of honeybees for commercial pollination. “Big operators put hives on flatbed trucks and move them to California to pollinate almonds and then onto Texas for another crop,” she says – carrying their diseases wherever they go. And between bouts of work on monoculture farm fields, commercial bees are often taken to more pristine natural habitats “to rest and recover, where there is diverse, better forage,” says Alger.”

University of Vermont. “Honeybees infect wild bumblebees through shared flowers: Domestic beehives linked to spike in viral infections in nearby bumblebee populations.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 26 June 2019. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190626160339.htm>.

Samantha A. Alger, P. Alexander Burnham, Humberto F. Boncristiani, Alison K. Brody. RNA virus spillover from managed honeybees (Apis mellifera) to wild bumblebees (Bombus spp.). PLOS ONE, 2019; 14 (6): e0217822 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0217822

other articles supporting new research Micha is talking about -

Are Honey Bees Bad for Wild Bees? on JSTOR

This article is about specific species affected by honeybees. The only area they don’t seem to hurt native bees too much is in their own native habitat in Europe. Everywhere else, they can become a problem based on the science.

https://daily.jstor.org/are-honey-bees-bad-for-wild-bees/

From the Sierra Club

“How the Honeybee Buzz Hurts Wild Bees“

“But honeybees are at no risk of dying off. While disease, parasites, and other threats are certainly real problems for beekeepers, the total number of managed honeybees worldwide has risen by 45 percent over the last half century.“Honeybees are not going to go extinct,” says Scott Black, executive director of the Xerces Society. “We have more honeybee hives than we’ve ever had and that’s simply because we manage honeybees. Conserving honeybees to save pollinators is like conserving chickens to save the birds.””

“Contrary to public perception, die-offs in honeybee colonies are an agricultural problem, not a conservation issue. First domesticated about 9,000 years ago, honeybees are not all that different from livestock. They are also not native to the United States; they were imported from Europe to help pollinate crops around 1622.Meanwhile, native bees—of which there are over 20,000 species varying in size, shape, and color—are experiencing incredible losses. Of the nearly 4,000 native bee species in the United States alone, four native bumblebee species have declined 96 percent in the last 20 years, and three others are believed to have gone extinct. In the last 100 years, 50 percent of Midwestern native bee species disappeared from their historic ranges.”

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/how-honeybee-buzz-hurts-wild-bees

“ Honeybees Help Farmers, But They Don’t Help the Environment “ on National Geographic

This Nat Geo page has info on how to build a native bee house.

https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2018/01/29/honeybees-help-farmers-but-they-dont-help-the-environment/

“ Those honeybees you’re so worried about? They’re killing off wild bee species. “

https://grist.org/article/those-honeybees-youre-so-worried-about-theyre-killing-off-wild-bee-species/

“ Native bees are better pollinators, more plentiful than honeybees, finds entomologist “

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2011/10/native-bees-are-better-pollinators-honeybees

I have to correct my original post! I had previously written “honeybee populations have risen by 4.5% while localized native species’ populations are declining,” and that is incorrect. I had totally misread the number which was underlined in the article, the underline looked like a decimal point to me. I’m sorry about that!

I changed it to “managed honeybee populations worldwide have risen by 45%, while localized native bee species’ populations are declining.”

Source for that info: https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-bees-you-know-are-killing-bees-you-don%E2%80%99t

I also corrected: “and honeybees displace/destroy native bee populations.”

Honeybees are invasive in the United States. Raising honeybee colonies is detrimental to native bee populations that actually provide true ecosystem benefits. Keeping honeybees to save the bees is like keeping chickens to help the native bird population, (only worse, because honeybees are horrible for native bee populations like local bumblebees, which are the pollinators among others we should be trying to save more specifically) . Honeybees were imported and domesticated long ago, but their populations are aggressive and more adaptive due to being invasive – honeybee populations have risen by 4.5% while localized native species’ populations are declining, and honeybees displace/destroy native bee populations. Honeybees in the USA thrive in larger numbers than bumbles, have longer living hives, and aggressively swarm around water/food sources, preventing bumblebees/other native pollinators like hummingbirds from doing their job. Honeybees have also been studied for the devastating effects of transfering disease and fungus to bumblebees populations, even in remote areas far from where farmers established honeybee populations. Many farmers and monocultures are definitely a major part of the problem. They import non native bees, soak single species fields in pesticides, exacerbating the problem (eliminating suitable habitat for native bees and introducing massive competition on top of that).

“From a typical bumblebee colony of a few hundred, only the young queens survive the winter, hibernating until they can start their own colonies in spring. Farmers usually buy new colonies from breeders each year. Honey bees, in contrast, live in colonies of up to 60,000 bees, and these colonies can persist indefinitely.” – From, ‘How The Bees You Know Are Killing The Bees You Don’t’ , Inside Science.org

If you want to help local bee populations, research and plant native flowers in your area, and attempt to find which flowers in particular they seem to prefer. Beekeeping honeybees, and planting non-native flowers (honeybees can pollinate and prefer non native flowers in many cases, they draw them in – always plant native plants if you can) is the opposite of helping. I cannot stress how important it is to NOT import non-native bees.

“The research team – three scientists from the University of Vermont and one from the University of Florida – explored 19 sites across Vermont. They discovered that two well-know RNA viruses found in honeybees – deformed wing virus and black queen cell virus – were higher in bumblebees collected less than 300 meters from commercial beehives. The scientists also discovered that active infections of the deformed wing virus were higher near these commercial apiaries but no deformed wing virus was found in the bumblebees they collected where foraging honeybees and apiaries were absent.Most impressive, the team detected viruses on 19% of the flowers they sampled from sites near apiaries. “I thought this was going to be like looking for a needle in a haystack. What are the chances that you’re going to pick a flower and find a bee virus on it?” says Alger. “Finding this many was surprising.” In contrast, the scientists didn’t detect any bee viruses on flowers sampled more than one kilometer from commercial beehives.”

what also scared me was “ Alger – an expert beekeeper and researcher in UVM’s Department of Plant & Soil Science and Gund Institute for Environment – is deeply concerned about the long-distance transport of large numbers of honeybees for commercial pollination. “Big operators put hives on flatbed trucks and move them to California to pollinate almonds and then onto Texas for another crop,” she says – carrying their diseases wherever they go. And between bouts of work on monoculture farm fields, commercial bees are often taken to more pristine natural habitats “to rest and recover, where there is diverse, better forage,” says Alger.”

University of Vermont. “Honeybees infect wild bumblebees through shared flowers: Domestic beehives linked to spike in viral infections in nearby bumblebee populations.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 26 June 2019. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190626160339.htm>.

Samantha A. Alger, P. Alexander Burnham, Humberto F. Boncristiani, Alison K. Brody. RNA virus spillover from managed honeybees (Apis mellifera) to wild bumblebees (Bombus spp.). PLOS ONE, 2019; 14 (6): e0217822 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0217822

other articles supporting new research Micha is talking about -

Are Honey Bees Bad for Wild Bees? on JSTOR

This article is about specific species affected by honeybees. The only area they don’t seem to hurt native bees too much is in their own native habitat in Europe. Everywhere else, they can become a problem based on the science.

https://daily.jstor.org/are-honey-bees-bad-for-wild-bees/

From the Sierra Club

“How the Honeybee Buzz Hurts Wild Bees“

“But honeybees are at no risk of dying off. While disease, parasites, and other threats are certainly real problems for beekeepers, the total number of managed honeybees worldwide has risen by 45 percent over the last half century.“Honeybees are not going to go extinct,” says Scott Black, executive director of the Xerces Society. “We have more honeybee hives than we’ve ever had and that’s simply because we manage honeybees. Conserving honeybees to save pollinators is like conserving chickens to save the birds.””

“Contrary to public perception, die-offs in honeybee colonies are an agricultural problem, not a conservation issue. First domesticated about 9,000 years ago, honeybees are not all that different from livestock. They are also not native to the United States; they were imported from Europe to help pollinate crops around 1622.Meanwhile, native bees—of which there are over 20,000 species varying in size, shape, and color—are experiencing incredible losses. Of the nearly 4,000 native bee species in the United States alone, four native bumblebee species have declined 96 percent in the last 20 years, and three others are believed to have gone extinct. In the last 100 years, 50 percent of Midwestern native bee species disappeared from their historic ranges.”

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/how-honeybee-buzz-hurts-wild-bees

“ Honeybees Help Farmers, But They Don’t Help the Environment “ on National Geographic

This Nat Geo page has info on how to build a native bee house.

https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2018/01/29/honeybees-help-farmers-but-they-dont-help-the-environment/

“ Those honeybees you’re so worried about? They’re killing off wild bee species. “

https://grist.org/article/those-honeybees-youre-so-worried-about-theyre-killing-off-wild-bee-species/

“ Native bees are better pollinators, more plentiful than honeybees, finds entomologist “

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2011/10/native-bees-are-better-pollinators-honeybees

I have to correct my original post! I had previously written “honeybee populations have risen by 4.5% while localized native species’ populations are declining,” and that is incorrect. I had totally misread the number which was underlined in the article, the underline looked like a decimal point to me. I’m sorry about that!

I changed it to “managed honeybee populations worldwide have risen by 45%, while localized native bee species’ populations are declining.”

Source for that info: https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-bees-you-know-are-killing-bees-you-don%E2%80%99t

I also corrected: “and honeybees displace/destroy native bee populations.”