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Honeybee Deaths Linked to Corn Insecticides
Yahoo/ABC ^

Posted on 03/16/2012 7:27:42 AM PDT by nuconvert

What was killing all those honeybees in recent years? New research shows a link between an increase in the death of bees and insecticides, specifically the chemicals used to coat corn seeds.

The study, titled "Assessment of the Environmental Exposure of Honeybees to Particulate Matter Containing Neonicotinoid Insecticides Coming from Corn Coated Seeds," was published in the American Chemical Society's Environmental Science & Technology journal, and provides insight into colony collapse disorder.

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KEYWORDS: bees; billgates; fda; gmo; honeybees; insecticide; monsanto; roundup; usfoodsupply
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To: Talisker

Agreed. Monsanto’s statement is utterly wreckless. While not used much anymore a gene gun (literally a 22 bullet) was used to shoot the concoction into a compound to form new random genes that would then be honed and studied and finally introduced into our food. These combinations could have never happened in nature, and in fact, were never done the same in the lab. That is why each batch of GMO corn has to be test, they are never the same, and testing theme is a joke, testing them for what exactly?

Gimme’ a break ...


61 posted on 03/16/2012 11:28:04 AM PDT by Scythian
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To: Scythian

Sorry for the typo’s, this stuff really pisses me off


62 posted on 03/16/2012 11:29:12 AM PDT by Scythian
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To: opentalk

Oh please....spare me the Monsanto propoganda.


63 posted on 03/16/2012 12:14:07 PM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Live the message of Fatima - pray & do penance!)
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To: PGR88; Aussiebabe; All
Also, it seems someone forgot to tell the bees that they are supposed to be “collapsing.”
According to USDA, USA honey production (million lbs)
2006 154.9
2006 154.9
2007 148.5
2008 160.8
2009 146.4
2010 175.9
2011 160.0
Seems rather “CCD” is some sort of propoganda that either benefits the enviromental movement, or the honey producers, or both.


You need to go back further in time:

1987 235.4
1988 222.8
1989 180.6
1990 221.7
1991 230.6
1992 218.2

64 posted on 03/16/2012 12:16:46 PM PDT by khelus
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To: khelus

2006 was the first year that “Colony Collapse” was proposed.

A decline over 25 years is just that - a decline, not a collapse.

You also need to look at yield per hive and the number of beekeepers. Yields are increasing, whereas the number of beekeepers is declining. After all, how many young people do you know who are studying beekeeping or planning on making it a profession?


65 posted on 03/16/2012 12:46:37 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

2006 is the first year that there high enough reports of colony collapse to provoke concern. That does not indicate there was no colony collapse prior to 2006.

There have been documented limited reports of something resembling ‘colony collapse’ back to the 1800’s. What is not known is this a normal cyclical phenomenon, the result of factors not present in the 1800’s such as extensive pesticide use, new disease(s), stress from trucking the bees all over creation, Chinese manufactured hives, or perhaps a combination of factors.

You can thank ‘Free Trade’ and China’s special WTO accession agreement for the decline in bee keepers in the US.


66 posted on 03/16/2012 1:16:40 PM PDT by khelus
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To: houeto

Maybe that bee was disoriented. IIRC, bees are back in the hive by sundown. (Willing to be corrected.) How horrible for your wife!


67 posted on 03/16/2012 2:57:28 PM PDT by Lauren BaRecall (I declare for Santorum)
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To: 9YearLurker

Typical far leftist thinking.


68 posted on 03/16/2012 8:16:26 PM PDT by Aussiebabe
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To: 9YearLurker

Typical far leftist thinking.


69 posted on 03/16/2012 8:16:38 PM PDT by Aussiebabe
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To: Aussiebabe

Sorry, but Monsanto is one of the few truly evil corporations on the planet. Perhaps you work for them.


70 posted on 03/17/2012 2:25:13 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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