this is :
1. Silent Spring Type Greenie Hype
2. Important News
Thanks
After Malathion spraying in Los Angeles about 25 years ago, bee and butterflies virtually disappeared. They’ve both made comebacks in recent years, but their levels of abundance are still very low, and I’m wondering if they’ll ever make it back.
The widespread desire to “fix” every annoyance in life with a spray can or a pill is causing as much grief as he original problems,in my view.
Wow! Insecticide kills insects. Who’d a thunk it? Definitely worth the $50 million research grants.
It all started when the honeybee worker bee’s union signed them up for ObamaCare.
Thanks for posting. This problem has been going on for awhile, and is very concerning.
It’s something more than an “annoyance” when used in an Agriculture.
When the one doc showed the commercial bee farmer delivering his hundreds of bee hives to an almond orchard/farm (IIRC) and then the almond farmer sprayed the trees with all sorts of chemicals while the bees were on the trees it didn't take much more to figure out why his bees died in droves.
Seriously, how was this ever considered a mystery?
Insecticide kills insects? Well, how come they didn’t make a research that water makes you wet?
Let me guess...they blew insecticide directly into the hives.
And for those interested in the link between neonicotinoids and GMO corn:
http://www.panna.org/blog/ge-corn-sick-honey-bees-whats-link
Not hype. We had a farm, I raised clover over the summer might see 2 or 3 bees. I thought this was the problem, know some bee keepers and asked them, they thought virus. The kill off is widespread in Ky. Bees presently being transported from one part of the US to another to pollinate crops. This is a big F’in deal as Biden says.
My workplace is surrounded by orchards. I see dozens of honeybees every day dying on our parking lot. The sad part is they are still doing there little dance while they are dying. Apparently that’s how they communicate to the rest of the colony where they found some flowers or pollen or whatever it is that bees do.
Bayer used to use imadacloprid in turf products as a grub killer.
the best safest insecticide was DDT. case closed.(that would be Algores response to his bs...”case closed”. so I guess I can use it too.)
There have been lots of reports in the last 10 yrs or so of bee hives dieing out. However they are just studying DOMESTIC bees, not wild bees. I suspect that the inbreeding of the domestic bees is a large part of the problem as the wild bees all seem to be doing fine.
and they thought frogs were dying because of Global Warming(or some bull like that) and it turned out it was research frogs were released into the wild
It comes from Harvard.
Harvard physics & math...believable.
All else?
Beware...idiot alert.
Leaving the hives?
The workers are rebelling it would seem.
Down with the Queen!
Down with unfair work hours!
Down with poor retirement packages!!!
Once again, I read news I need to know, or should know, from a foreign media and in this case, a far left rag. Even so, this research confirms what many beekeepers already know.
I’ve lost my last two hives, partly due to the cold and partly due to the city’s truck driving around the streets spewing a chemical aerosol to kill mosquitoes. Hopefully, I will be able to get another package of bees tomorrow.