To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.
Canada Ping!
Posted on 07/03/2013 6:37:49 PM PDT by chessplayer
Shortly after 50,000 bees were found dead in an Oregon parking lot (read more here), a staggering 37 million bees have been found dead in Elmwood, Ontario, Canada.Dave Schuit, who runs a honey operation in Elmwood has lost 600 hives. He is pointing the finger at the insecticides known as neonicotinoids, which are manufactured by Bayer CropScience Inc.
The loss comes after the planting of corn. Neonicotinoid pesticides are used to coat corn seed with air seeders, which result in blowing the pesticide dust into the air when planted. The death of millions of pollinators was studied by Purdue University. They discovered that Bees exhibited neurotoxic symptoms. They analyzed dead bees and found that traces of thiamethoxam/clothiandin were present in each case. The only major source of these compounds are seed treatments of field crops. You can view that study here (1).
(Excerpt) Read more at myscienceacademy.org ...
"Neonicotinoid pesticides are a huge risk – so ban is welcome, says EEA"
"The European Commission has decided to ban three neonicotinoid insecticides. These chemicals can harm honeybees, according to a large body of scientific evidence, so the European Environment Agency (EEA) commends the precautionary decision to ban them."
http://www.eea.europa.eu/highlights/neonicotinoid-pesticides-are-a-huge
Damn. Without honeybees, agriculture is toast.
I’d hate to be the guy who had to draw all those chalk outlines.
ROFLMAO!!! Thanks, I needed that. ;-)
“The Plight of the Honeybee”
“Billions of dollars—and a way of life—ride on saving pollinators.”
“Bees are back in the news this spring, if not back in fields pollinating this summer’s crops. The European Union (EU) has announced that it will ban, for two years, the use of neonicotinoids, the much-maligned pesticide group often fingered in honeybee declines. The U.S. hasn’t followed suit, though this year a group of beekeepers and environmental and consumer groups sued the EPA for not doing enough to protect bees from the pesticide onslaught.”
http://www.beeologics.com/bees-and-beekeeping/communication-and-navigation/
Regardless of whatever good they do, they also do a lot of bad. /nonsequitur
“I was nowhere NEAR Elmwood!”
Yup. We have to decide which is more important to us. Neonicotinoids, or the future of agriculture.
hahahaha! That gave me a belly laugh!
Very true. Bee colonies/populations can’t take hits like this year after year after year before they reach the point that they can’t recover.
Damn. Without honeybees, agriculture is toast.
Bulls**t! We have 11 million undocumented Democrats ready to take up feather-dusters and go from plant to plant protecting our food supply Montsanto's cut of the ethanol subsidy! We taxpayers will gladly pay them per square footage of pollination! Brilliant! Just add a tax to E15... make it high enough, though because we really should be driving electric cars that get recharged on 100% coal-free electricity. Oh! If you do have one of those silly "old" car... and need that E15, don't pay any attention to the car manufacturers that say E15 will void your warranty.
Everybody in? Great!
</sarc>
LOL
Bees???? We don’t need no stinkin’ bees.
Now that was funny.:>)
To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.
Canada Ping!
And we should stop using corn for fuel. I imagine that has something to do with the rise in the use of neonicotinoids.
Here is a better more informative article with specific information:
http://www.inquisitr.com/828732/millions-of-honeybees-found-dead-report/
I really suggest dropping myscienceacademy.org as an information source. Their article is propagandistic with several factual distortions. Sad that they are misinforming children on science.
LMAO....
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