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.
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.
Deutschland ist Apis frei!
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.
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.
Fancy that, an insecticide that kills insects.
They first came for the bees and I said nothing ...
THIS IS A MAJOR CRISIS THAT COULD AFFECT THE WHOLE US ECONOMY
THIS COULD HAVE A DEVESTATING EFFECT ON OUR CHILDREN, AND OUR CHILDRENS CHILDREN.
WE NEED 700 TRILLION HONEYBEE BAILOUT PROGRAM TO BE PAID FOR BY A NEW TAX ON THOSE WHO CAN AFFORD IT MOST.
“The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has classified clothianidin as “highly toxic” to honeybees.”
I’m curious why it was approved. If you kill honeybees you do a lot of damage to agriculture.
Sounds just like the Pubs trying to get the dems to get Fannie and Freddie in line. Nothing happens until there is a disaster.
I didn’t need a government sponsored study to tell me bee populations have been decreasing for 10 years. Half the problem is that beekeepers are very hard people to find these days. We called 5 different people to come get a full hive of great honey producers, not one would come. In the end the hive was exterminated, apparently apartment people are afraid of a few honey bees around them......city dinks that they are.
At first glance, I thought the article said we were seeing the end of German beer... thankfully it’s just German BEES.
I was stung by a bee last Thursday. Sum-a-beech hurt like crazy! The top of my hand (where the crime was committed) was swollen for 4 days. Two of my boys were stung within the last 3 weeks, as was my mother. I think they have all moved to Minnesota.
Spray this sh!t, uh, stuff everywhere killer bees are a problem.
Dose the calm domesticated European-bee hives with the antidote.
The response from Bayer CropScience:
It would be more helpful if they explained the improper application factors in more detail, so others could avoid this in the future.
Termites exposed to imidacloprid experienced disorientation and immune system failure.
Living in Houston, I need 5 gallons of imidacloprid.