Ping!
I had been hearing about the problem of disappearing bees for quite a while. I ran across this story this morning on www.mercola.com where he has an extensive discussion of it. Both a video, printed story and links to related stories are at the link below:
Story at-a-glance
Bees have been dying off around the world for a decade now from a phenomenon called Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD. A third of the U.S. food supply depends on the honeybee
The collapse of bee colonies is probably multifactorial, rather than a response to one type of toxic assault; one major factor is the toxicity of systemic pesticides, such as Clothianidin (made by Bayer)
One Colorado beekeeper named Tom Theobald exposed the EPA’s complicity with Bayer in allowing Clothianidin to market without honeybee safety studies
An average of six different pesticides were found in hives across the country, with one hive testing positive for 31 different pesticides, in one recent study
More than 75 percent of the honey on American supermarket shelves is not honey at all, but rather an ultra-processed mixture of sugar-water, malt sweeteners, corn or rice syrup, jaggery, barley malt sweetener and other additives, smuggled in from China and tainted with illegal antibiotics and heavy metals, such as lead
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For those of you who pray about such things, I do request that you will please put this one on the altar!
I had a few bee hives years ago. Really fun to mess with. And killing them off would be a huge attack against us.