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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/14/us/honeybees-mysterious-die-off-appears-to-worsen.html
It's pretty bad here, too. despite not having the Varroa mite. It is threats like that which our quarantine laws are for.
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/4094061.htm
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Tim Bailey
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I find this paragraph interesting...
"The Grain Farmers of Ontario says the rules amount to a "near ban" on the pesticide and an "attack" on modern agriculture practices. The group says bee death figures are exaggerated."
A few years ago when these concerns first surfaced, KGO's Ron Owens had a Bee Keeper on as a guest. The guy was pretty wound up about finding his Bee colonies half full of dead Bees and the lack of interest he was seeing from everyone he told about it.
The segment wasn't going very well with few calling in until a farmer called to say "in the Midwest there are corn fields that cover many hundreds of acres, and every ear of corn that came from those fields involved a Bee."
The Bee guy became irate and said "that's the point I've been trying to get across" and "all they talk about on the news is god dammed Britney Spears!"
Let me see if I got this straight?
BEES are Vital to crop fertilization. Crop SEED is doused with some toxic shit which seems to be have a REALLY BAD effect on bees.
Right sos far?
So? What's the problem. We kill off MOST of the bees which takes out MOST of the human race.
I don't see the problem.
OH! BTW? Does that chemical make its way into the HONEY?
Too much is never enough
It seems fairly safe to say that the main cause of bee die off is the background pesticide level.
In recent years bee keeping became popular here in urban areas.
These bees feed on garden flowers and pesticide use is very low in urban gardens compared to industrial farming.
While rural bees here in the UK suffer as much as anywhere else urban bees are almost completely unaffected and thriving.A little too much sometimes.
Edits: 05/22/15 05/22/15
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