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I've seen a ton of dead bees lately. I mean a TON. |
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Just last week I walked out front and saw 5 dead bees in front of my apartment. |
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i wonder if its the cold moving back in thats killed the bees in the PNW. they just came out too early. |
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| Quote From Source: | Washington beekeepers say a devastating new pathogen is killing their bees in droves, just one year after many were relieved that they had avoided a mysterious colony collapse disorder that silenced hives all over the country.
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Apparently it's a new fungus. |
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I was watching "The Bee Movie" last night with the kids. I question the timing of it. Its a big public service message. Its almost like the government had hollywood make the movie to say killing bees is bad and what would happen if they were not around. Its rather.....odd to see.
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so, I was out walking around today and I see this bush. There's a few bees quickly doing their thing. Then I look away somewhere else for 15 seconds, then look back again but they left already.
Then a couple minutes later, the wind starts blowing around 15 mph (yeah it was 38 degrees at the time), and then the light rain started. Then the rain got pretty heavy...
Just a bit eerie seeing bees doing their thing when it's 38 outside. Not to mention the wind.  |
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man - I tell ya - things feel about half-a-bubble-off lately
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Wild bee decline 'catastrophic'
| Quote From Source: | Wild bee populations around the UK are experiencing "catastrophic declines", the Bumblebee Conservation Trust has warned.
Mary Celeste Syndrome - where a hive is found almost completely deserted - has appeared in Scotland.
"Without pollination, flowering crops like beans, peas, strawberries and raspberries won't produce anything to harvest, and wildflowers won't produce any seeds.
"The loss of the nation's pollinators is likely to affect your dinner plate, and will change the wider countryside beyond recognition."
The beekeeper said the US government was spending about £8.1m on research into Mary Celeste Syndrome, called Colony Collapse Disorder in the US.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/u...ands_and_islands/7360832.stm
its universal... its a disaster that couldn't come at a worse time. |
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Seriously, does anybody but me see a connection with the recent food price spikes and the honey-bee thing? And the timing of the BEE Movie?? Seriously ya'll need to watch that movie. If that wasn't a government message I don't know what is. The premise was to show what would happen if the bees did not work. Also it was bad to steal thier honey and hurt them or kill them. I mean you really have to watch that movie..the connection is so blatent it slaps you in the face.
I mean I try not to get into conspiracies but ya know..this just is to coincidental.
Rice is going to be the new staple because there are no bees left to pollinate the other grains right? Wheat pollinates itself though....so I'm not sure whats going on with that.
Look how much food prices have climbed. Tell me there is no connection because I'm feeling a little alone on this one here.
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FW - I'm honestly beginning to think we'll be lucky to make it
to 2012 before the wheels fall off...
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More commercial bee colonies lost
| Quote From Source: | SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- A survey of bee health released Tuesday revealed a grim picture, with 36.1 percent of the nation's commercially managed hives lost since last year.
Bees are dying at unsustainable levels, the president of the Apiary Inspectors of America says.
Last year's survey commissioned by the Apiary Inspectors of America found losses of about 32 percent.
As beekeepers travel with their hives this spring to pollinate crops around the country, it's clear the insects are buckling under the weight of new diseases, pesticide drift and old enemies like the parasitic varroa mite, said Dennis vanEngelsdorp, president of the group.
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Basically they are saying 1 out of every 3 are dying. That is a pretty serious problem.
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| Quote From Source: | Masses of honeybees started dying off around the world in late 2006. The phenomenon is called colony collapse disorder, when adult honeybees leave the hive and die. The cause is unknown.
Scientists are looking into diseases, parasites, environment stresses and management stresses, which include nutrition problems. And they're looking hard, because the honeybee population isn't just about pretty flowers. Bees are crucial for agriculture pollination.
According to an article from the Public Library of Science, "In 2000, the value of American crops pollinated by bees was estimated to be $14.6 billion."
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http://www.rockymountainnews...s-bee-disorder-seen-in-colo/ |
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This is just anecdotal, but yesterday and today, there have been bees attending my favorite magnolia tree. I have been unable to get my morning whiff of fresh magnolia because of them.  |
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BEE DISAPPEARANCES COULD GET WORSE
| Quote From Source: | A record 36 percent of U.S. commercial bee colonies have been lost to mysterious causes so far this year and worse may be yet to come, experts told a congressional panel Thursday.
The year's bee colony losses are about twice the usual seen following a typical winter, scientists warn. Despite ambitious new research efforts, the causes remain a mystery.
"We need results," pleaded California beekeeper Steve Godlin. "We need a unified effort by all."
The escalating campaign against what's generically called colony collapse disorder includes more state, federal and private funding for research. Publicity efforts are getting louder -- a costumed Mr. Bee was seen wandering around Capitol Hill this week -- and lawmakers are becoming mobilized.
On Thursday, Congress heard from farmers with troubled crops, from beekeepers struggling with lost hives, from frustrated researchers and even from corporate leaders worried about their own economic futures.
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Bees' decline could lead to higher food prices
| Quote From Source: | WASHINGTON (AP) -- Food prices could rise even more unless the mysterious decline in honey bees is solved, farmers and businessmen told lawmakers Thursday.
Farmers say their businesses are feeling the sting of the decline of honey bees.
"No bees, no crops," North Carolina grower Robert D. Edwards told a House Agriculture subcommittee. Edwards said he had to cut his cucumber acreage in half because of the lack of bees available to rent.
About three-quarters of flowering plants rely on birds, bees and other pollinators to help them reproduce. Bee pollination is responsible for $15 billion annually in crop value.
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THIS story should be page One, every day... but of course
the MSM has more important things to do
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Food prices are going to be prohibitive for most people soon if all of this bad news doesn't quit coming. What's worse is speculators take every shred of bad news and double or triple the cost associated w/ the actual risk. |
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This has made it into the movies. It's talked about in the new movie "The Happening" |
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I walk a little over 3 miles from work to home every day and I'm seeing a few dead or dying (writhing on the ground) bees on the ground. I'm in southern california right now so...this ain't good.
"The rain it raineth every day, and every night also -- week in and week out, from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, there is nothing but rain, rain, rain, 'The windows of heaven are opened up.' Pluvius, grieved at some earth-giving wrong, weeps as if he never would dry up." - Overland Press (Olympia, WA), December 1861 |
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At least you are seeing bees. I have not seen any in a while.
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I have been seeing some bees around here. They have been flying around flowers. Not many bees, but some...and they're alive.
This is in northern Oklahoma. |
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I haven't seen a honey bee or yellow jacket this year. The yellow jackets were actually a nuisance up until a couple of years ago.
"Well either way that sure is purdy. If it is global warming then at least the view will be nice before we die." - Fatalwishes |
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Honeybee deaths reaching crisis point
| Quote From Source: | Britain's honeybees have suffered catastrophic losses this year, according to a survey of the nation's beekeepers, contributing to a shortage of honey and putting at risk the pollination of fruits and vegetables
The survey by the British Beekeepers' Association (BBKA) revealed that nearly one in three of the UK's 240,000 honeybee hives did not survive this winter and spring.
In the US, honey yields have been decimated by honeybee loses of 36%, many due to colony collapse disorder (CCD), a mysterious disappearance linked to the blood-sucking varroa mite, lethal viruses, malnutrition, pesticides, and a lack of genetic diversity. CCD has spread to Canada, France, Germany and Italy but has not yet been confirmed by government in the Britain.
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Bayer Pesticides Cause Mass Death of Bees
| Quote From Source: | The German Coalition against Bayer Dangers today brought a charge against Werner Wenning, chairman of the Bayer Board of Management, with the Public Prosecutor in Freiburg (south-western Germany). The group accuses Bayer of marketing dangerous pesticides and thereby accepting the mass death of bees all over the world. The Coalition introduced the charge in cooperation with German beekeepers who lost thousands of hives after poisoning by the pesticide clothianidin in May this year.
Since 1991 Bayer has been producing the insecticide Imidacloprid, which is one of the best selling insecticides in the world, often used as seed-dressing for maize, sunflower, and rape. Bayer exports Imidacloprid to more than 120 countries and the substance is Bayer´s best-selling pesticide. Since patent protection for Imidacloprid expired in most countries, Bayer in 2003 brought a similarly functionning successor product, Clothianidin, onto the market. Both substances are systemic chemicals that work their way from the seed through the plant. The substances also get into the pollen and the nectar and can damage beneficial insects such as bees.
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