Survey shows US honey bee deaths increased over last year »
Posted By STONERS 1 year, 1 month ago in NewsA survey of bee health released Tuesday revealed a grim picture, with 36.1 percent of the nation's commercially managed hives lost since last year.
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STONERS1 year, 1 month ago
"Last year's survey commissioned by the Apiary Inspectors of America found losses of about 32 percent."
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vor1 year, 1 month ago
We're DOOMED! DOOMED, I TELL YOU!
Wouldn't it be ironic if instead of some wild apocalyptic scenario or MAD nuclear exchange that we could be rendered extinct by the loss of the ordinary honey bee...but it isn't really so far fetched. They are a critical link in the cycle of life.
It isn't just about Haagen-Daas but about the sustainability of human life itself....
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Candida1 year, 1 month ago
Unfortunately, the two are not mutually exclusive. Food shortages would almost certainly lead to wars.
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Gransater1 year, 1 month ago
This problem isn't unique to the US. I've read that its affecting europe aswell, with similar numbers of overall loss of hives.
Is this just another nail in coffin of humanity, or is it just a temporary anomaly?
Are we willing to spend some green in finding out just what the reasons are, or, is it going to be bussiness as usual, where few people give a hoot?
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crghss1 year, 1 month ago
From what I've read it was first noticed in Europe. Thats one of the reasons that its so proplexing. What ever caused it there it would seem would cause it here. But can't find the common denominator.
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Candida1 year, 1 month ago
Gransater: "Are we willing to spend some green in finding out just what the reasons are, or, is it going to be bussiness as usual, where few people give a hoot?"
It's business as usual with oil consumption, so why should this be any different? Besides, the "green" is needed for waging wars.
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walden31 year, 1 month ago
Cell phones?
I'm left speechless by the number of people who don't know that bees pollinate every piece of fruit that they eat. I used to work with a very well educated lawyer - all the best private schools, won many multi-million dollar cases, a real bright lady - she had no idea that bees pollinate stuff. Amazing.
Since I'm talking about amazing how about those folks who get their lawns treated and then the lawn company leave those little signs not to go on the lawn. Who wants a poison lawn?
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lvrofwolves1 year, 1 month ago
I saw 1 honey bee the other day, wasn't buzzing around the flowers, kept coming to us sitting on our porch, 2 different people almost killed it, I yelled NOOOOOOOOO leave it alone, it's a honey bee....one lone honey bee. Last year I had to use q-tips to pollinate my tomato plants, didn't see any bees and my little flowers just kept falling off and dying.
Save the bees!!!
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nostalgia1 year, 1 month ago
Great story Stoners!
Something many people stopped paying attnetion to after the last round of reports
The situation is pretty grim in the UK also
Honeybees may be wiped out in 10 years
Honeybees will die out in Britain within a decade as virulent diseases and parasites spread through the nation's hives, experts have warned.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml...
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righttolife1 year, 1 month ago
Would you like to know when the government will do something about the bees? When its too late of course!
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Georgia501 year, 1 month ago
I'm thinking of tinkering with my trust to leave some money for bee research. Does anyone know the top ag schools for that purpose? Or is there another organization I should be aware of?
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canadianrancher571 year, 1 month ago
The decline in bee numbers is going to affect the production af some plants but there are alot that would not be affected, most of the grains are from grasses and they do not need bees to pollinate and I know some fruit varieties also will produce with out bees but it would be in our better interest to keep them around.
I wonder if some of this is not being cause by gene manipulation that we are doing to certain plants, they have developed corn bore resistant varieties and maybe the gene is more deadly than they know and is affecting other plants and insects.
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Natureboy1 year, 1 month ago
GMO plants may play a role. It is unrealistic to say that self-pollenators will not be affected, for the simple reason that the web of life is astonishingly complex and intricately interconnected.
So a species dies off - what bacteria, fungi, etc lived in its rhizosphere, and what role did they have in the life cycle of plants around them? Were they nitrogen-fixers? Did they repel or kill harmful nematodes?
We should admit that we don't really know where this could end up.
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getreal11 year, 1 month ago
I often thought about getting into beekeeping, but don't know much about it.
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