Posted on 10/01/2008 1:47:28 PM PDT by Scythian
I suppose the remedy does not include taking two aspirin.
Wow! and i have not seen any bees down here in Florida How about you?
In the past two years, we’ve lost about a quarter of our hives. But this year was a good year.
Thanks Bayer!
Around the world, honeybee stocks are in decline, which scientists have warned could have devastating impacts on global food supplies. A total of 80 percent of world food crops are primarily or exclusively pollinated by honeybees, amounting to 130 crops and $15 billion worth of food each year in the United States alone.
Yet two million honeybee colonies have been lost in the United States in recent years, with massive dieoffs also reported across Europe and in Taiwan, where 10 million bees recently disappeared over the course of only two weeks.
I live in California and I used to have tons of bees in my garden. I love them, they pollinate and make my flowers pretty. I barely see them anymore. My garden was a bit of a dud this year. Wonder if there is any connection.
We actually depend a lot on bees, and should bee worried.
I was blaming the lack of bees in the last couple of years on global warming.
A direct connection. Bee kills are occuring here as well.
Naw....It’s the killer bee infestations, and some pesticide worries.
Deutschland ist Apis frei!
They are using these products all over the US. Pharming (new the farming) it totally unregulated, they the GM stuff that is going on would scare the hell out of you if you really knew what was going on, and these pesticides are devestating, and not only to bees ...
The outlet -- Natural News and "German government researchers", per The Guardian -- are very likely agenda-driven.
It's not unlikely that clothianidin is the DDT of today.
Sorry, upset, will repost:
They are using these products all over the United States. Pharming (farming) is totally unregulated, the GM stuff that is going on would scare the hell out of you if you really knew what was going on, and these pesticides are devestating, and not only to bees ... The stuff you eat, it has living GMO’s in it that have been proven to make the cross-kingdom jump (that means can leave inside you).
I guess apicide is the best Bayer can do these days. Sigh.... It’s not like the good old days when they could make Zyklon B for genocidal use....
So, what is this stuff called in the U.S., and what is being done about it.
If honey bees die off, it could easily result in massive starvation deaths among humans. We rely on bees to pollinate most of our food crops as well as to produce honey.
I can’t believe that the jackasses in charge of government departments are worrying about carbon caps and other such useless nonsense, but have not banned these chemicals.
With the drought and high temps we’ve had here in central Texas this year, our garden was basically a bust.
We’ve been trying to plant more flowering plants to increase/attract the bee and butterfly populations.
Fancy that, an insecticide that kills insects.
Yes, we do. Honeybees are vital to life on this planet.
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