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Posted on 05/20/2009 10:50:47 AM PDT by TaraP
If you are a small businessperson in any activity, how long can you sustain 29 percent losses or greater each year?" said Jerry Hayes, assistant chief of the Florida Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Plant and Apiary Inspection in Gainesville.
While total losses decreased slightly, the average operational loss increased to 34 percent in 2008-09 from 31 percent a year ago.
Hayes prepared the survey's preliminary results along with entomologists Dennis vanEngelsdorp, of Pennsylvania's Department of Agriculture and president of the AIA, and the USDA's Jeff Pettis.
A more detailed report will be published this year.
Experts blamed Colony Collapse Disorder, the malady characterized by the complete absence of bees in dead colonies that has been decimating the U.S. beekeeping industry in recent years, for some of the losses. The cause of the disorder is still unknown, but about 26 percent of apiaries surveyed reported that some of their colonies died of the collapse disorder - down from 36 percent of apiaries in 2007-08.
Other causes include premature queen death, starvation, cold, pests such as the varroa mite and pesticides, Hayes said.
Dave Hackenberg, a beekeeper who winters his bees in Florida, criticized the survey for not asking the right question. He said his hive numbers dropped from 3,500 in October 2008 to 2,800 this January, within the time period of the survey. But by February, he had lost 300 more hives.
"It's spring, but the hives aren't growing. I'm finding them blown out, dead or gone," Hackenberg said from Maine Tuesday.
Hayes added: "There have been beekeepers out there who have taken another phenomenal loss this year. Honeybees simply are not healthy.
It would be ironic if bees sense the onset of global cooling....
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Finally the seventh seal is opened (Revelation 8). It describes seven other aspects of end-time events, each announced with a trumpet blast. In the first four of these, plagues God strikes the earth and mankind’s environmental support systems. The fifth trumpet’s plague inflicts great pain on those refusing to serve God. In the sixth trumpet plague, God permits an unimaginably destructive and all-out worldwide war to begin (Revelation 8-9).
This is ominous. If the bees go, we’re not long after.
To bee or not to bee, that is the question.
You said — Finally the seventh seal is opened (Revelation 8).
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Ummm.., I haven’t seen that we’ve even entered the Tribulation period yet. And for all the prophecy conferences that I keep up with and the various speakers and their websites and the information that they provide — absolutely *none of them* — have spoken about or shown or said or taught, that we have entered the 7-year Tribulation yet.
The idea that this has happened is simply a “fringe idea” of some Christians and has not been backed up by any scholarship from any of the long-standing prophecy teachers.
And, of course, in order to distinguish myself and these other teachers from many in the Christian church who don’t even believe in these prophecies coming to pass, in the first place, we’re talking from a Pre-mil, pre-trib, dispensational hermeneutic...
I had NO idea at the time I chose a screen name that it could be PROPHETIC. God bless this earth, let it NOT be beefree. I heard that ‘bee’ and ‘word’ in hebrew is the same. When church is raptured, the ‘Word’ (Jesus) is taken out of the way. Bees first? Christians next?
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I think we have entered a new element of the tribulation period, the birth pains that Jesus spoke of have increased, and I think some of the Seals in Revelation has been opened.
I am not saying I AM 100% CORRECT, this is just what I am starting to believe from reading, prayers and the Signs Jesus told us to look for....
Mathematically, you can sustain them indefinitely. Anything less than a 100% loss each year will never reach zero.
I knew it! Smoking!
The first seal (Revelation 6:1-2) represents the deception by a false Christianity that began in the days of the apostles (Matthew 24:4-5). The second seal (Revelation 6:3-4) refers to the increasing devastation caused by war as the end approaches (Matthew 24:6-7). The third seal (Revelation 6:5-6) represents increasing hunger and famines (Matthew 24:7). Other consequences of war and famine are represented by the fourth seal (Revelation 6:7-8)—such things as disease, plagues and civil unrest that kill many people (Matthew 24:7).
Maybe nature is mimicking what it’s seeing here—we don’t have to work either...
hmmm. I don’t remember....
They had the Bat Collapse as well....Maybe that is why Insects are running amok!
a false Christianity is what we see today.
“Liberal Christian” is an oxymoron at best, an apostasy in actuality.
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