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All HIEL KING BAM BAM
I guess that’s it for honey bees then.
Habitat loss?
Honeybees aren’t even native to this continent and will thrive just about anywhere as long as they have food. Besides, I thought it was recently determined that numbers were rebounding.
Look for the Mooch with a #Bringbackourbees sign. Coming soon.
Waste of time and money!
GMO crops are what is killing the bees.
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Bees have a striped tail.
Kind of like a gay rainbow.
What’s not to “love”?
Bees are important. But, based on O's track record, I expect the plan to read something like, "Let's put the Central American kids to work with pollinating paintbrushes, give them citizenship for their valuable service, and our crops will be OK. And by the way, no more pesticides." /S
Welll, We were watching a program about bees on TV It was in China that a farmer was not getting his fruit trees pollinated and he had no fruit. The farm bureau said it was because there were no bees. They told him he would have to pollinate the flowers himself. So he climbs up on a ladder with a feather tied to a stick and pollinates the flowers himself.
Bee’s are dying all over the world and they are vital for food production unless we want to put all these illegal aliens to work pollinating flowers.
If (and we know how big a word that can be) the category of pesticides targeted are genuinely responsible for “hive collapse” and other honey bee population issues, then it’s probably wise to limit their use and seek alternatives where possible. Honey bees are a big part of the pollination process for certain crops.
The thing is, unless there is some new scientific breakthrough in this report I’m not aware of (entirely possible), it’s not absolutely proven that neonicotinoids are the villain here. There’s a lot of strong circumstantial evidence, but there are also other potential causes here, too. African mites remain an implacable foe for honeybees, and there are other diseases and parasites that are harmful to honey bees and could be driving the spike in hive collapse.
So, I’m going to reserve judgement on this one for now.
Now we know why they dropped the “colony collapse” meme. They switched targets.
#Bring back our bees.
Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is a phenomenon in which worker bees from a European honey bee colony abruptly disappear. While such disappearances have occurred throughout the history of apiculture, and were known by various names (disappearing disease, spring dwindle, May disease, autumn collapse, and fall dwindle disease),[1] the syndrome was renamed colony collapse disorder in late 2006[2] in conjunction with a drastic rise in the number of disappearances of Western honeybee colonies in North America.[3] European beekeepers observed similar phenomena in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain,[4] and initial reports have also come in from Switzerland and Germany, albeit to a lesser degree[5] while the Northern Ireland Assembly received reports of a decline greater than 50%.[6]
Colony collapse is significant economically because many agricultural crops worldwide are pollinated by European honey bees. According to the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the worth of global crops with honeybee’s pollination was estimated to be close to $200 billion in 2005.[7] Shortages of bees in the US have increased the cost to farmers renting them for pollination services by up to 20%.[8]
The mechanisms of CCD and the reasons for its increasing prevalence remain unclear, but many possible causes have been proposed: pesticides, primarily neonicotinoids; infections with Varroa and Acarapis mites; malnutrition; various pathogens; genetic factors; immunodeficiencies; loss of habitat; changing beekeeping practices; or a combination of factors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_collapse_disorder
This has been studied for several years with no clear solution. How is Obama’s Marxist dreamteam going to figure it out in 180 days? And he says we don’t believe in science. This is putting politics in front of science.
This is simply yet another reason being given for the EPA to assume more power—more power to destroy anything that they FALSELY assign some potion of the cause of the clooapse.
This from the guy who has flies on his face and mice running around his feet.
Destroyed out military - Check
Destroyed our Manufacturing Base - Check
Swarms of Illegals we cannot support swarming in - Check
Creating economic Chaos - Check
Lowering food production to “save” the Bees - check
Lots of Problems either being created or being made worse...
Look forward to his upcoming Reaction and Solution Phases....
I think this would be a great idea:
Test all pesticides on politicians first. Dip themin it, roll them in it. Put it in their food and drink. No additive-free ‘baccy either.
If they live afterwards with no apparent side-effects, then commence with human trials.