A Mysterious Killer of Honeybees Threatens Our Food Supply

Second Opinion Newsletter ^ | NA | Dr. robert Rowen M.D

[MamaB]

I’m sorry but I do not appreciate that question. My husband died last July. I miss him with all my heart.

[LurkedLongEnough]

Appreciate your sincerity, but bees are all over my crabapple tree in bloom. Bumblebees and wasps are everywhere. Of course this is just my little acre of land.

(Obviously) I’m no pro beekeeper, but these repeated bee die-off warnings sound more and more political every time reported. “Big Agri Monsanto” and threats of GM biologicals - is “global warming” suddenly not converting enough voters to the hippie culture/left? Or maybe imported bee-related product supplies have something to do with all of this?

In all fairness, if the threat is so serious, and you are so concerned, can you suggest some possible concrete actions that can be taken and by whom? I’m sincerely curious as to what you think because you are so adamant and I like your profile.

[hophead]

“Everything has been flowering like crazy but zero honey bees.”

If the story is true, how the hell have your plants kept blooming?

[hophead]

“Yes, the bees have a virus”

No no no. They are all in Cancun.

[databoss]

Little known fact alert:
honeybees and earthworms didn’t exist in the Americas until brought here by the English in the 1600’s

[visualops]

Well, they can come get bees from my yard, I have loads of them. I had tons of fruit, what killed it this year was the late freeze. My grape vines have recovered well, but no plums or pears this year.

If their bees are “weak”, maybe they need to shore them up with wild bees.

[hophead]

“As of tonight, about a dozen dead wasps that were attempting to build a nest on my deck”

“dead wasps that were attempting to build a nest”

Now I am worried!!!!

[UnChained]

“This is what I first thought of when I heard about the bees dying”

From whay I’ve heard, the bees go out foraging and don’t return. There aren’t a bunch of dead bees in or around the colonies. Whatever it is doesn’t seem to be directly fatal to the bees. It disrupts their behavior such that they just seem to disappear.

My pet theory is the proliferation of cell towers transmitting in the multi-gigahertz range. A bees body is about 1/4 wavelength long at 2 gigaherz. Maybe their navagation system or memory is affected by the induced currents in their bodies.

On the way home from work today I passed a sign on the road where somebody was selling their hives. I want to get back into beekeeping but I’ll wait until this problem is figured out and fixed.

[6SJ7]

Albert Einstein: “Damn it Jim, I’m a physicist, not a beekeeper!”

[visualops]

Lol it’ll only catch a misspelled word, not the wrong one.
At first I thought you were using some plant terminology lol

[UnChained]

“My peach, pears, apple, and olive trees have the largest crop ever. My two acres is covered with purple vetch, crimson clover, rosemary, poppies and lavender. The entire two acres HUMS, there are so many bees.”

As communications tech and an ex-apiarist, I’m curious. How good is the cell phone coverage at your place? Any cell towers within 2 miles?

[Jason_b]

anyone confirm or deny this? Confirm. Around my home in Northern Virginia, up until a couple years ago, the bushes would be loaded with bees of all kinds and curious yellowjackets would spend hours buzzing around the outside of my house. What they were interested in I'll never know. But they were after something. Wasps would persistently try to build nests in the fenders of my 4WD toyota truck. These days, I see 1 yellow jacket where there might have been five, 1 bumble bee where there might have been 20, no honey bees. No wasps.

If it were up to me, I'd get one of the remaining good hives, and take it to the biosphere.

From within there, the bees can be studied and the dead or missing ones located. It might provide insight as to what is happening to them on the outside.

A buddy of mine, purely speculating on the matter, connected the bee situation with the whales and dolphins beaching themselves. Drudge has an article that an arctic seal has swum to Florida. It died after it got here. He (my buddy, not drudge) mentioned that a lot of these creatures get their sense of direction from the magnetic poles. There has been talk about a pole reversal being due. Pole reversals have happened many times in the past; lava samples from the atlantic rift shows iron magnetically oriented one way, then the other, frozen according to the time and position of the magnetic pole when it hit the cool water, kind of like you expect it to look on mylar recording tape if you put filings on it. Could be the creatures' compasses need to be recalibrated. I wonder how long it takes nature to accomplish that.

[visualops]

Plants have flowers that bloom to pollinate and produce seed to reproduce. The flowering is not dependent on the pollination. If pollination stops then that would eventually cause a problem.
However flowers are pollinated by more than just bees. Birds, other insects, and weather also contribute to pollination.

[AmericanDave]

‘he bought me a jar of honey which was made by someone in the neighborhood.’

I hate to tell you, but the BEES made the honey, your neighbor probably didn’t make the JAR either.... LOL.

[TomB]

First of all, the "doctor" that wrote this story has issues.

Second, honey bees are not even native to North America. How did all the plants survive before the bees were introduced by Europeans?

[Post-Neolithic]

"If the story is true, how the hell have your plants kept blooming?"

You don't need Honey Bees to make plants bloom. You do need them to produce fruit and seeds(except for grass that is. Which is why Watermellons, Cantelope, Cucumbers and fruit trees, plants need pollination.

[AmericanDave]

Like your tag line....

What about the ‘killer’ bees? Are they dying off, or are they tougher....?

[redgirlinabluestate]

Then there is this theory,

and this one.

I have seen so many different theories on the disappearance of the bees. Which one is it? Or is it a combination of all of them happening at once?

[Jason_b]

"...HAARP, there lies a clue about the bees...."

First thing that comes to my mind is food as a weapon, control the food supply and you control the population. Surrender your government of-the-people, democracy, Republic, become members of the NWO dictatorship and we will stop killing your bees. You will be able to eat again. Do you want to stay alive as serfs or remain free when it means certain starvation? Anyone who can kill bees worldwide, can extort as such, worldwide. There was another article this bee situation is going on in Taiwan.

My answer: live free or die.

[COBOL2Java]

A Mysterious Killer of Honeybees Threatens Our Food Supply