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Mass honeybee deaths go unabated in US hives
http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Mass-honeybee-deaths-go-unabated-in-US-hives/270574/ ^

Posted on 02/08/2008 2:56:47 AM PST by chessplayer

Feb 7 A malady that's killed billions of bees since 2006, threatening about $15 billion in pollinated crops, has been detected again, according to the US Department of Agriculture's top honeybee researcher.

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KEYWORDS: bee; bees; honeybee; honeybees
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To: Neidermeyer
A beekeeper I know says the parasite issue can be solved by putting mentholated cough drops in the hive and letting the bees eat the sugar (and menthol) which kills the parasites.

No, I am not making this up.

21 posted on 02/08/2008 7:23:15 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Jimmy Valentine

Is this something he does in his own hives?


22 posted on 02/08/2008 2:18:18 PM PST by B4Ranch (("Life is a food chain; if you're not at the top, you're on the menu." ))
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To: KeyWest

I’ve heard the polar bear isn’t in any danger either.


23 posted on 02/08/2008 2:19:19 PM PST by B4Ranch (("Life is a food chain; if you're not at the top, you're on the menu." ))
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To: djf
"Learn about mason bees."

I knew the Masons were behind all this.

24 posted on 02/08/2008 2:21:17 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Fishtalk

Whatever happened to the disappearing Ozone layer? Did we save it after banning freon, dear lord...freon was the enemy.
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Freon R-12 and R-22 are now thought to be between 10 and 100 times LESS hazardous to the ozone layer compared to the initial hysteria... I have a mobile a/c license and can tell you that you must still regurgitate the lies about harming the planet to get that license.. It really was all about taking market share away from DuPont...


25 posted on 02/08/2008 3:19:40 PM PST by Neidermeyer
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To: Neidermeyer

My husband, who works at Sears and was fit to be tied over the pain with that freon issue, told me the same thing.

I would suggest everytime we hear global warming that we ask what happened to that ozone layer and the Bird Flu.

They gotta make up something.

I couldn’t sleep sometimes worrying about the ozone layer.


26 posted on 02/08/2008 3:24:27 PM PST by Fishtalk (If you liked the above post, remember I've got a Blog you might like to visit.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

LOL!!


27 posted on 02/08/2008 5:31:45 PM PST by djf (...and dying in your bed, many years from now, did you donate to FR?)
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To: Jimmy Valentine

Cough drops do not work.


28 posted on 02/09/2008 4:00:24 AM PST by KeyWest (Help stamp out taglines!)
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To: B4Ranch
He has tried it and says that it works.

I do not know anything about bees except that when we were little kids and I got stung, my older brother offered this sage advice;"Never fight a bee".

29 posted on 02/09/2008 5:05:34 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: miele man

I had heard that our state is pretty healthy because we don’t allow out of state bees in. A truck transporting bees may stop in the state of gas, but no bees may be off-loaded here.


30 posted on 02/09/2008 5:16:36 AM PST by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch (If MY people who are called by MY name -- the ball's in our court, folks.)
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