Posted on 01/31/2014 7:03:22 AM PST by rktman
I cannot say it strong enough. Do not believe the lies that environmental groups, particularly those that receive millions from liberal foundations and from members who never question the “science” they claim to justify massive scare campaigns.
One such organization is Friends of the Earth (FOE) and its latest claim is that bees are dying all over the world as the result of the use of pesticides in agriculture and by people protecting their gardens. It is a lie.
The attack on the use of pesticides began in 1962 with the publication of Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” that claimed that their use posed a threat to human life. She said “Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species—man—acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.”
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I always loved those photos wear a guy is wearing like a million bees on himself. Pretty neat trick!
I used to see honeybees all the time. Haven’t seen one in years. Seems like the only ones around are the ones shipped in by produce farmers.
No.
The bees in question are in effect local bees that are temporarily moved elsewhere. They do not propagate in the temporary location because the bee keepers are easily able to eliminate the swarming tendency in a temporary foreign location.
Swarming is a sexual reproductive act. Bees decide the population is great enough to permit a swarm to follow the existing queen to a new site determined by scouts and then voted on by the swarm.
The colonyleft behind raises a new queen that becomes impregnated by several drones and then proceeds to raise a new crop of bees using the ample stores left by those that left.
Just last night I took some of the best Vanilla Ice Cream ever made (Zwahlen’s) added chopped walnuts and honey. YYYYuuuuummmmm!
Believe it or don’t but the reward for keeping bees as a hobby comes from watching and learning about them rather than the honey.
I would suggest strongly learning the location of a bee keepers group, contacting them and then finding a mentor among the group. There will always be one. I have a childhood friend who took p the hobby at 68 and she is having a great time.
The Spring, say April, is the time to order bees and start. You have two months or so to become acquainted with the locals and learn their recommendations for getting started this year.
These are fine people....
The Eviro-whackos HATE PEOPLE.
They want population control.
Anything that increases food productivity and supports population growth is opposed by them.
According to Doctor Who, bees ARE an alien life form - http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Bee - from the planet Melissa Majoria in the Medusa Cascade. ;-)
All of our local bee keepers lost their colonies, as did most bee keepers where my parents live.
Yup. I believe that the scientist known as algore mentioned something about pop control at the meeting of the rich and famous in Davos last week. I’m sure he cashed in enough carbon credits to offset the Citation V flight there and back. (or whatever jet was used. I’m fairly certain it wasn’t southwest)
There are almost no bees in our area. In summer if you see one its a miracle. A friend of ours had all his hives just die off about 6 mos ago. No idea why.
We stopped hearing about the beehive die offs, and they did happen, when the scientists discovered it was actually a virus that was killing them.
(Of course the virus was caused by globalvwarming :-|)
It’s true that I’ve seen very few honeybees in the past fifteen years, but there are plenty of other bees around, carpenter bees, wasps, bumblebees, and yellow jackets.
Gore didn’t just “mention population control”.
He showed his true RACIST agenda by stating what a disaster it would be if we didn’t CONTROL THE POPULATION GROWTH IN AFRICA!!!!
Yeah, but he’s protected because he’s doing these things for the good of mankind. Ergo; he ain’t racis’. Just we are. He’s trying to help them. We’re just trying to kill them. HUH? Bizzaro world. Not one person that I’m aware of called him on it either.
I’m still waiting for all the trees in the Northeast to die off from acid rain, oh wait.............
The Bee Informed Partnership (http://beeinformed.org), in collaboration with the Apiary
Inspectors of America (AIA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA),
is releasing preliminary results for the seventh annual national survey of honey bee
colony losses. For the 2012/2013 winter season, a total of 6,287 U.S. beekeepers
provided validated responses. Collectively, responding beekeepers managed 599,610
colonies in October 2012, representing about 22.9%1 of the country’s estimated 2.62
million colonies.
Preliminary survey results indicate that 31.1% of managed honey bee colonies in the
United States were lost during the 2012/2013 winter. This represents an increase in loss
of 9.2 points or 42% over the previous 2011/2012 winter’s total losses that were
estimated at 21.9% (Figure 1). This level of loss is on par with the 6 year average total
loss of 30.5%2.
On average, U.S. beekeepers lost 45.1% of the colonies in their operation during the
winter of 2012/2013. This is a 19.8 point or 78.2% increase in the average operational
loss compared to the previous winter (2011/2012), which was estimated at 25.3%. The
difference between average loss and total loss is explained by the respondent pool: while
a majority of the respondents (95%) were backyard beekeepers, they managed a small
fraction of the colonies represented in the survey (6%). For this reason total loss (which
is more heavily influenced by commercial beekeeper losses) is more representative of
national losses.
Survey participants indicated that they considered a loss rate of 15% as “acceptable,” but
70% of them suffered losses greater than this.
http://beeinformed.org/2013/05/winter-loss-survey-2012-2013/
I'm sure one of the alphabets could do it. Better use of our money than logging my phone calls telling me to pick up a 1/2 pound of baloney and cheese.
I keep bees and belong to a local beekeepers group. Every one of us in the group has had major losses of up to 50%over the past 5 years due to CCD, varroa mites, neonictinoids from pesticides, and even cell phone signals have been known to throw the bees off their game. They have recently even discovered zombie bees among beeekeepers in VT which become afflicted through fly bites. Beekeeping is tiring but rewarding profession or hobby. Billions of people depending on the honey bee for the food on their table. This die off has serious implications for every human.
By the way, the honey you buy at the supermarket is NOT honey in any way shape or form. Local honey has thousands of medicinal and nutrition applications. Honey is also the only food we consume that will NEVER spoil. Honey has been removed from jars in Egyptian crypts of Pharaohs and was still edible. Did you know that the US medical staffs in Iraq and Afghanistan use bandages soaked in honey to treat hideous burns and stop bleeding? Bees also produce propolis, a hard resin that is stronger than novocaine and often called Russian penicillin because it is used to treat hundreds of ailments by Russian farmers who could be days away from any doctor. I could go on for hours.
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