A Mysterious Killer of Honeybees Threatens Our Food Supply

Second Opinion Newsletter ^ | NA | Dr. robert Rowen M.D

[technomage]

BTW the whole premiss of this is based on Bravo Sierra

You are showing your lack of research on this subject.

First off, the Snopes article does not dispute in the least the bee die off. What Snopes is disuputing is whether Einstein said what he said about bees.

There have already has hearings on Capital Hill concerning this, at the House Committee on Agriculture. You can find a transcript from the March hearings, and other information, here:

http://maarec.cas.psu.edu/index.html

[knittnmom]

What could possibly go wrong?

Well, for starters, some people are alergic to bee stings. My daughter just bought some land at which she wants to keep bees, and she took the time to get an allergy test before taking the plunge. Her bees are to arrive later this month. She said it was very hard to find anyone who was selling them. BTW, she also spotted 4 different breeds of honeybee on some flowering bushes in our backyard.

[anonsquared]

“If we lose a significant portion of the bee population, how do you propose we pollinate our crops?”

Illegal immigrants with paintbrushes.

Seriously, I think the real problem in America is lawns. Outlaw lawns and all the chemicals that are poured on them. Replace with flowering plants and hardscape.

My peach, pears, apple, and olive trees have the largest crop ever. My two acres is covered with purple vetch, crimson clover, rosemary, poppies and lavender. The entire two acres HUMS, there are so many bees. I’ve spotted four different species already this year. Other people in the area are amazed as they have no bees and all the bees seem to have moved to my property.

You can buy bulk seeds at:
Peaceful Valley Farm Supply
http://groworganic.com/default.html?welcome=T

Try their organic bulk seeds:
http://groworganic.com/search.html?pCommand=DoSearch&pMode=Search&sText=&sCategory=356

If you order a catalog, hang onto it. They only send out one main catalog yearly and then a smaller one with fruit trees in the fall.

[MamaB]

Of course. Isn’t that what it is for!!!! Good grief, it is supposed to know my every thought. LOL!

[C210N]

Also heard that the wild bees have been gone for a couple of years now, anyone confirm or deny this?

You are referring to the fact that there are virtually no "feral" honey bee colonies around, which is mostly due to various kinds of mites, and has been the case for many many years now.

Actually, I am aware of at least one swarm of bees from a friends hive that migrated to become a feral colony. This happened last year, and they are gone now. The problem for feral colonies is there there is no beekeeper human-type to apply the various meds and techniques to keep the mites at bay.

As for my yard, I can say that I've seen about 100,000 honey bees.

... but then, I have 3 hives.

Whatever is causing "Colony Collapse Disorder" does not appear to be affecting those of us with stationary-in-their-yard hives. Its mainly the commercial guys that truck hundreds of hives across the country for pollination that seem to be experiencing the problem.

[lormand]

"They think they may have narrowed down the cause to a parasite or virus."

Yes, the bees have a virus, so they are going to the ER now in swarms.

Bee Swarm Shuts Ark. Hospital's ER

Bee Swarm Shuts Ark. Hospital's ER

This happened a few days ago.

[muleskinner]

I’ve got a large, flowering shrub next to my front porch. In the last 3 weekends, the only bee I’ve seen around it is a bumblebee and a few mud daubber wasps.

[tgambill]

Finally, someone understands and is aware of the facts.

reference Tesla’s technology and HAARP, there lies a clue about the bees.....

The bees are scratching the surface......

The actual story is mindboggling.....I have been studing this for the past 10 years and it came together just this past year while I was in the Congo. Once I got out of denial and away from the media, the pieces fell together. yes, it is linked directly to the end times.

[tgambill]

Finally, someone understands and is aware of the facts.

reference Tesla’s technology and HAARP, there lies a clue about the bees.....

The bees are scratching the surface......

The actual story is mindboggling.....I have been studing this for the past 10 years and it came together just this past year while I was in the Congo. Once I got out of denial and away from the media, the pieces fell together. yes, it is linked directly to the end times.

[tgambill]

Finally, someone understands and is aware of the facts.

reference Tesla’s technology and HAARP, there lies a clue about the bees.....

The bees are scratching the surface......

The actual story is mindboggling.....I have been studing this for the past 10 years and it came together just this past year while I was in the Congo. Once I got out of denial and away from the media, the pieces fell together. yes, it is linked directly to the end times.

[anonsquared]

http://groworganic.com/maincat/n/0048.html

Scroll to the bottom for purple vetch. I threw one pound of the stuff on a hill in back of the house and it has now taken over. Bees love it! And the neighboring rancher says it’s highly nutritious for his cattle and he loves the fact that it has spread from my property to his. And it fixes nitrogen to the soil.

[Viking2002]

If there's any science to the claim, I would think the cell towers themselves would be responsible, not the individual phone. The relative low output of a cell phone is nothing compared to the towers themselves, which act as repeaters/amplifiers designed to transport a mesh network of countless thousands of calls at any given moment. A similar principle applies to Doppler radar - when the microwave antennna in the radome is transmitting, the radiation put out will literally cook any birds that are unfortunate enough to be in the immediate vicinity.

[muleskinner]

I've heard it's a problem in 27 states. Looks like Mass. may be O.K. so far.

As far a GMo seed, is there much commercially grown corn up there?

[Pilsner]

A local talk radio garden guy has been saying the bee die off is probably related to GM plants. He sounds just like this story. Paranoid.

I'm not saying there is no relation, I'm just saying that the folks crying about GM plants killing bees didn't go out and do the research and come to that conclusion. They started out hating and fearing GM plants, and hearing of trouble with an unknown cause, they decided to blame it on GM plants. A hundred years ago they would have blamed the bee die off on the Jews.

Oh, and if breeding plants that are naturally resistant to bugs is a bad thing, then I guess these Greenies want us to go back to un modified plants, and spray them with DDT? Try that on one of them, and watch him/her choke on their organic, fair trade, decafe latte.

Honey prices in April of 2007 are 103.16% of honey prices in April of 2004 -- $3.92# in 2007 vs. $3.80# in 2004. See graph:

http://www.honey.com/honeyindustry/stats/PriceRetail.htm

According to the Department of Labor consumer price index calculator, it takes $1.0871 in this part of 2007 to equal $1.00 in 2004. See calculator:

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

1.0871 (what it takes to equal a 2004 dollar) times $3.80# (what honey cost in April 2004) is $4.13. So, adjusted for inflation, the rapidly rising price of honey has skyrocketed up to 94.92% of what honey cost in April 2004, before the great bee die off began.

[Dutch Boy]

I live near Rochester NY and I have seen many honey bees this spring in my garden, also quite a few bumble bees.

As of tonight, about a dozen dead wasps that were attempting to build a nest on my deck. My spraying aim is getting better....

[Alouette]

Goodbye, and thanks for all the nectar!

[Conservative4Ever]

I was listening to a talk show with a caller explaining about the honey bees. The commercial bee keepers ship the bees all over the US. They feed the bees fructose syrup for food. Not much nourishment in that. Thousands of the bees die in transit. Also there has been a mite over the last number of years that have seriously decimated hives, both wild and domestic. I like to think that the survivors of all this will be a heartier bee.

[DvdMom]

Another Missing Bee Article , Really Intersting Info : )Ping

[hophead]

“Our hardener...”

You have Viagra?

[hophead]

“how do you propose we pollinate our crops?”

Illegals?