Posted on 06/06/2015 3:36:53 AM PDT by grundle
Not buying it. When I start seeing honey bees outside in numbers that I used to see then I’ll believe it.
IOW, show me the bees.
You mean the sky is not falling?
Doesn’t sound like they’ve solved the disorder. They have only developed a workaround that’s adequate—for now.
I think there are far fewer beekeepers than there once were. I only know of a couple near me and they haven’t seen any major loss of bees aside from natural decreases related to weather.
I was talking to a neighbor a while back who says he is considering getting back into keeping bees. He wants to spread them around the area so I told him I would consider letting him put a couple hives out in the far corner of my yard.
I am sure Obama was spending the money to find a link between bee losses and hydrocarbon energy or mobile phones.....anything that could lead to new regulations and control over the economy.
These are not people interested in solutions, but interested in advancing the quest for consolidated power.
If they aren’t declining, then why don’t I see my back yard full of bees. My yard is half clover with thousands of little white flowers and no bees.
The problem might have reached national attention in 2006, but it was a concern much earlier than that in the scientific community. I first learned about it when I started graduate school in 1994; it was an active subject of research in the entomology department.
My Sister-in-Law has taken up bee-keeping, which surprised the HECK out of me. I did not believe it when I first heard about it.... but she is doing it. I now know 2 bee-keepers. Maybe you are looking in the wrong place?
Small time beekeepers used to be very common. Probably a quarter of the farms around where I grew up had a half dozen hives but now they seem rare.
We have had a colony of bees living in a wall in our house. Been there a couple of years. Every year, the oolony grows and then the hive splits in half and they swarm and one half flies away to a new place. They have already done that this year, and they already appear to be getting ready for a second split! No shortage of bees here!
The article is talking only about commercial hives and bee growers. It does not take into account the number of natural hives that grow wherever bees choose to live....There could still be an increase in the number of farmed bees while wild bees are declining. — However, they will probably recover with time as nature has a way of producing its own workarounds.
I know four bee keepers very well, all around 40-45, and know of three others within a few miles of here. Three of them lost hives this winter due to the cold winter, but they have replaced them and have already split some of the new colonies. One of them had a new colony swarm before he could split, so they are probably now two new wild colonies somewhere.
I’ve always been intrigued by beekeeping as well. I would love to give it a try.
Not being snarky, but this sounds like a global cooling problem...with the harsh winters, it is easy to see why it causes a problem. This global cooling, warming business is all hype. The sunshine or lack of it is the root cause. So sit back and let God play with His thermostat. To think that we really impact this “system” shows an outrageous ego problem for mankind. We just are not that “important” to the big picture.
Its my bees and I wanna see em now!
Since the Obama Administration is sticking their nose
in this, how many of the known commercial
beekeeping operations, or the smaller single
owner beekeeping businesses, are held under
the rose colored glass of “owned by minorities”?
Can you see the federal regulation coming that
would state the length, girth, color of, stretch
of wingspan of the bee; the cubic size of the bee
hive housing no more than a specified number
of bees; the measured spacing between hive
housings or how many housings; what materials
were used with what fasteners, to make the housings;
And all under the blanket statement:
“I’m here from the government, and I came to help.”
Sadly, when Obama’s BeeSA is established only then will we see real problems for the bees.
Obama will import more African honey bees to solve the problem and this will sting us pretty badly. They are muslim bees and are vicious with the nonbeliever.
bees, if i’m not mistaken tend to hone in on open grassy, relatively dry pastures. Now, because the EPA and DEC with their wetland mania, you can’t even cut down a twig without a permit and gov’t “permission” to do so on your own land.
I don’t know about other areas but here in upstate NY, the unbridled “wetlands” are growing and not being maintained as they once were via now governmentally FORBIDDEN activities (ditch cleaning, dirt fill, clearcutting, etc); in which, IMHO is causing flooding in areas (that the pinkos can blame on climate change) not to mention undesirable habitats for the bees. That and the recent cold snap has been an obstacle to bee population.
And of course insect control as far as MOSQUITOES and TICKS that carry dangerous diseases haven’t been permissible for a loonnnngg time here thus the boom of West Nile Virus, Lyme Disease etc. So they can’t blame (although they will) pesticide usage which is dramatically down.
That’s my theory.
Like Osama, Newtown Elementary, and now Waco bikers? Never happen GI!
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