[MsLady]

Buy heirloom seed. And don't plant any hybrids close by, they cross pollinate.

Makes me wonder if it's the lack of heirloom plants that are killing off the bee population. We've lost about 1/3 of our bees in this nation and from my understanding they haven't figured out why they are dying off.

[Terry Mross]

Chemicals kill a lot of bees. Back in the 80’s the Arkansas government would re-imburse bee farmers for bees lost due to agri chemicals. Don’t know if that’s still happening.

Bottom line is we’re messing with nature and that ain’t good.

[GBA]

We've lost about 1/3 of our bees in this nation and from my understanding they haven't figured out why they are dying off.

Here's some recent news about the bees' disease:

In a paper published on the PLoS ONE website on Wednesday, Oct. 6 (Bromenshenk et al), the mysterious cause of Colony Collapse Disease was revealed: a one-two, pathogenic punch from a virus and two species of fungus. But just which throws the primary hit, and which adds the opportunistic “knock out” punch, remains unclear.