Posted on 07/29/2015 9:10:45 AM PDT by rktman
Fear often trumps facts in media coverage. The past several years of worries about dying colonies of bees was certainly no exception, but The Washington Post recently supplied some much-needed sting to the honeybee situation.
News media scare stories about bee deaths and the label that came to describe the occurrence -- Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) -- saturated the news. Magazines, broadcast networks and left-wing websites blamed bee deaths on a host of factors, including cell phones, pesticides, mites and fungi. Oh, and global warming, of course.
Hype was rampant.
Time magazine warned of “Beepocalypse” in 2013, claiming the “economic and environmental damage could be immense.” In that story Time’s resident climate alarmist Bryan Walsh cautioned that if CCD continued it could there could be “dire” consequences -- “even for our ability to feed ourselves.” NBC referred to the die-offs as almost a “natural disaster” and ABC worried that it could cause ice cream to “disappear.”
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Lotsa sweetness there!
Really. How is it then that the Cherokee have an ancient legend about honeybees?
My lawn is full f clover, or as my three-year-old daughter calls them, “Pwetty fwowas.” She gifts me with them by the handful lol! We don’t spray anything. I do use vinegar on a particularly nasty thistle outbreak, but that’s it. I use neem oil on the garden, but I’ve read that is okay for bees. Can you confirm that? I’d like to know. We want our bees!
Well, I guess not so much
Other bees were in North America, just not the honeybee we use for collecting honey.
http://www.beesource.com/resources/usda/history-of-beekeeping-in-the-united-states/
Colony Collapse Disorder is the historically inevitable consequence of the excesses of colonialist imperialist capitalist white privilege. I don't believe I need to include a close sarc tag. Thanks rktman.
“if the swarm that shows up on our lavender every day is any indication, we got nothing to worry about. If I could only find the hive, I’d have me some lavender honey”
If by “swarm” you mean the lavender is frequented by many bees, why not just buy some bees and set them up? The bees you have now could be coming from a mile away.
interesting
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