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Title: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: burntheships on August 25, 2011, 09:37:39 pm
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Honey Bees on the brink of extinction - Research, Causes and Concerns

Honey bee and pollinator decline indicates a “sixth major extinction” of biological diversity is currently underway, caused by habitat loss, pollution, pest invasion, and disease, leading to ecosystem havoc vital to human livelihood. 
sourcehttp://digitaljournal.com/article/304525#ixzz1qXB3vPmV   


What research has been done, and what has been hidden

Current evidence demonstrates that a sixth major extinction of biological diversity
event is underway.

1. The Earth is losing between one and ten percent of biodiversity
per decade

2, mostly due to habitat loss, pest invasion, pollution, over-harvesting and
disease

3. Certain natural ecosystem services are vital for human societies.
Many fruit, nut, vegetable, legume, and seed crops depend on pollination.

Pollination services are provided both by wild, free-living organisms (mainly bees,
but also to name a few many butterflies, moths and flies), and by commercially
managed bee species. Bees are the predominant and most economically important
group of pollinators in most geographical regions.

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)4 estimates that
out of some 100 crop species which provide 90% of food worldwide, 71 of these
are bee-pollinated.

In Europe alone, 84% of the 264 crop species are animalpollinated
and 4 000 vegetable varieties exist thanks to pollination by bees5. The
production value of one tonne of pollinator-dependent crop is approximately five
times higher than one of those crop categories that do not depend on insects.   

http://www.unep.org/dewa/Portals/67/pdf/Global_Bee_Colony_Disorder_and_Threats_insect_pollinators.pdf


A Study on bee extinction conducted years ago by the USDA has been kept secret and hidden from the public.

The "disclosed" facts of this study were twisted, the public has been
lied to in order to hide one of the real causes of Colony Collapse Disorder!

The results of the study conducted by the USDA proved that even
in microscopic doses the new pesticides manufactured and patented by Bayer
are causing
Colony Collapse Disorder (http://www.epa.gov/opp00001/about/intheworks/honeybee.htm)!

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This is potentially game-changing research for understanding
Colony Collapse Disorder.
However, I dont look for the
USDA to do anything about it, as they are the perpetrators here.

A top USDA Bee Researcher has intentionally kept the studies facts a secret

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The American study ... has demonstrated that the insects’ vulnerability to infection is increased by the presence of imidacloprid, even at the most microscopic doses. Dr. Pettis and his team found that increased disease infection happened even when the levels of the insecticide were so tiny that they could not subsequently be detected in the bees, although the researchers knew that they had been dosed with it.
grist.org (http://www.grist.org/article/2011-01-21-top-USDA-bee-researcher-also-found-Bayer-pesticide-harmful)

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the lead researcher at the USDA’s very own Bee Research Laboratory completed research two years ago suggesting that even extremely low levels of exposure to neonicotinoids makes bees more vulnerable to harm from common pathogens.

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So why on earth are they still in use on million of acres of American farmland?

It has been over two years and this study is still witheld from pubication! "For reasons not specified" ?

Well we know well why this study has not been published!


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For reasons not specified in the Independent article, the USDA’s Jeffrey Pettis has so far not published his research. “[It] was completed almost two years ago but it has been too long in getting out,” he told the newspaper. “I have submitted my manuscript to a new journal but cannot give a publication date or share more of this with you at this time.”

New Pesticides Are Killing Honeybee Population Worldwide (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1348952/Call-ban-pesticides-linked-bee-deaths-worldwide.html?ito=feeds-newsxml)

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A new generation of pesticides could be to blame for Britain's vanishing honeybees, a study has shown. The chemicals, which are routinely used on farms
and garden centres, attack the central systems of insects and make bee colonies more vulnerable to disease and pests, researchers say.
The claims, which appear in an unpublished study carried out at the US Department of Agriculture's Bee Research Laboratory, add to the evidence that pesticides are partly responsible for the mysterious decline of one of the world's best loved  insects.

2010 article quotes USDA Top Bee Researcher as he lies through his teeth!

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“We believe that some subtle interactions between nutrition, pesticide exposure and other stressors are converging to kill colonies,” said Jeffery Pettis, of the ARS’s bee research laboratory.
Alison Benjamin The Gaurdian (http://www.organicfoodee.com/news/2010/05/a-third-of-bees-wiped/), May 4, 2010

So there we have it! In his own words, he said "subtle interactions" when
he knew the truth!

And the truth is that even at the most microscopic doses these pesticides are deadly to the bees!


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That was three years ago, it has now reached a crisis of near extinction for the Bumblebees!

It seems the more we know the deeper the rabbit hole goes!

Now, we know that all of the recent food safety legislation is just letting
Monsanto and Bayer have a backdoor pass in the USDA.

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http://www.aloelf.com/bee-honey/ancient-history-of-bee-honey/

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Find out the truth before its too late!
Title: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: zorgon on September 30, 2011, 12:24:12 pm
Its too late  :o

Millions of honey bees killed in apparent poisoning

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Several beekeepers in the county have reported lost colonies this week. Charles Smith of Smith Family Honey Company told Stuart News Thursday he lost 400 beehives. He says the bees appeared to have been poisoned.

Millions of honey bees killed (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/os-honey-bees-killed-millions-poisoned-20110930,0,7448149.story)
Title: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: zorgon on September 30, 2011, 12:53:02 pm
Royal Ontario Museum investigates sudden bee death

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A Toronto museum is investigating the sudden death of thousands of bees in a glass-enclosed beehive exhibit.

Officials at the Royal Ontario Museum said 20,000 bees in a biodiversity exhibit had died within two days last week, though they had appeared healthy.

Scientists have ruled out staff error and starvation, but said poor ventilation, disease or a lack of worker bees could be to blame.

Royal Ontario Museum (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12437121) - BBC news
Sudden death of 20,000 bees in Toronto (http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread662547/pg1)


The following links compiles by Slayer69 at ATS

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Bee Decline May Spell End of Some Fruits, Vegetables

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October 5, 2004
Bees, via pollination, are responsible for 15 to 30 percent of the food U.S. consumers eat. But in the last 50 years the domesticated honeybee population—which most farmers depend on for pollination—has declined by about 50 percent, scientists say.

Unless actions are taken to slow the decline of domesticated honeybees and augment their populations with wild bees, many fruits and vegetables may disappear from the food supply, said Claire Kremen, a conservation biologist at Princeton University in New Jersey.

Bee Decline May Spell End of Some Fruits, Vegetables (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/1005_041005_honeybees.html) - National Geographic

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTiQTRWbeDw[/youtube]

Honeybees Dying: Scientists Wonder Why, and Worry About Food Supply

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The bees have been dying in unusually large numbers, and scientists are trying to figure out why.

"One in every three bites of food you eat comes from a plant, or depends on a plant, that was pollinated by an insect, most likely a bee," said Dennis vanEngelsdorp of Penn State University's College of Agricultural Sciences.

"We're still managing to pollinate all the orchards," he said. "But we're really cutting it close out there."

Honeybees Dying: Scientists Wonder Why, and Worry About Food Supply (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/honey-bees-dying-scientists-suspect-pesticides-disease-worry/story?id=10191391) - ABC News

Honey bees are dying all over the globe. Here's why!

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A team of scientists from Edgewood Chemical Biological Center and University of California San Francisco identified both a virus and a parasite that are likely behind the recent sudden die-off of honey-bee colonies. Using a new technology called the Integrated Virus Detection System (IVDS), which was designed for military use to rapidly screen samples for pathogens, ECBC scientists last week isolated the presence of viral and parasitic pathogens that may be contributing to the honeybee loss.

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But it now appears that a much more basic culprit has killed the bees -- Bayer Corporation. Colony Collapse Disorder is poisoning with a known insect neurotoxin called Clothianidin, a pesticide manufactured by Bayer, which has been clearly linked to massive bee die offs in Germany and France.

Honey bees are dying all over the globe. Here's why! (http://www.viewzone.com/lostbees.bayerx.html)

Scientists and Soldiers Solve a Bee Mystery

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Research at the University of California, San Francisco, had already identified the fungus as part of the problem. And several RNA-based viruses had been detected as well. But the Army/Montana team, using a new software system developed by the military for analyzing proteins, uncovered a new DNA-based virus, and established a linkage to the fungus, called N. ceranae.

Scientists and Soldiers Solve a Bee Mystery (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/science/07bees.html?_r=2&hp)


Some very good material in Slater69's thread

Monsanto - Bayer Engineering Death: Bees, Bats and You? (http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread638388/pg1)

So... we have mites, fungus, GM crops and pesticides all taking out the Bees. Might be a really good time to stock up on honey... as it doesn't spoil, it would be good to have a supply of both the bottled and the raw. Prices are likely to sky rocket in the near future at the very least due to the decline in bees
Title: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: zorgon on September 30, 2011, 02:38:26 pm
Decline of honey bees now a global phenomenon, says United Nations

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10 March 2011

Bee colony collapse, once limited to Europe and America, is now being seen in Asia and Africa. The mysterious collapse of honey-bee colonies is becoming a global phenomenon, scientists working for the United Nations have revealed.

Declines in managed bee colonies, seen increasingly in Europe and the US in the past decade, are also now being observed in China and Japan and there are the first signs of African collapses from Egypt, according to the report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

The authors, who include some of the world's leading honey-bee experts, issue a stark warning about the disappearance of bees, which are increasingly important as crop pollinators around the globe. Without profound changes to the way human beings manage the planet, they say, declines in pollinators needed to feed a growing global population are likely to continue. The scientists warn that a number of factors may now be coming together to hit bee colonies around the world, ranging from declines in flowering plants and the use of damaging insecticides, to the worldwide spread of pests and air pollution. They call for farmers and landowners to be offered incentives to restore pollinator-friendly habitats, including key flowering plants near crop-producing fields and stress that more care needs to be taken in the choice, timing and application of insecticides and other chemicals. While managed hives can be moved out of harm's way, "wild populations (of pollinators) are completely vulnerable", says the report.

Decline of honey bees now a global phenomenon (http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/decline-of-honey-bees-now-a-global-phenomenon-says-united-nations-2237541.html)

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This one is a bit weird... yet another cause blamed

It’s Official – Cell Phones are Killing Bees

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Scientists may have found the cause of the world’s sudden dwindling population of bees – and cell phones may be to blame. Research conducted in Lausanne, Switzerland has shown that the signal from cell phones not only confuses bees, but also may lead to their death. Over 83 experiments have yielded the same results. With virtually most of the population of the United States (and the rest of the world) owning cell phones, the impact has been greatly noticeable.

Read more: It's Official- Cell Phones are Killing Bees | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

It’s Official – Cell Phones are Killing Bees (http://inhabitat.com/its-official-cell-phones-are-killing-bees/)

Bees now disappearing worldwide, UN report warns! (http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread748107/pg1) - ATS Thread


Its funny how a lot of these articles say, "Scientists have said..." but we never see the scientific studies and reports. When we say it people demand all sorts of proof and documents, but whe a scientist says it, everyone just takes their word, without even know which scientist made the report, or having read the reports

Irony  8)
Title: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: zorgon on February 04, 2012, 02:38:51 am
Monsanto may be behind Bee Colony Deaths

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Soon to be whistleblower who worked for Monsanto will be releasing documents detailing how Monsanto planned to kill off bee colonies in order to introduce a “new and improved” species of bee that will only pollinate Monsanto crops

Related Links

Monsanto buys company researching death of bees (http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9Q1M0UO0.htm)
GE Honeybee (http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/20120202_ge-honeybee)
Monsanto buys bee-friendly pesticide researcher (http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9Q1M0UO0.htm)


And for those who said crops aren’t pollinated by bees? You’re wrong. Alfalfa is

Mysterious, Massive Disappearance/Death of US Honey Bees – Colony Collapse Disorder  (http://(CCD)http://blog.targethealth.com/?p=58)

And if you think Monsanto isn’t dominating our government? Read some cables released by wikileaks all about our officials asking for talking points from them, our ambassadors urging trade wars on their behalf:

Wikileaks Cables Show U S Threatening Retaliation if Europe Won’t Accept Monsanto Corn (http://themomu.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/wikileaks-cables-show-u-s-threatening-retaliation-if-europe-wont-accept-monsanto-corn/)

Are they evil enough to do this? Read up about Monsanto:

Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear (http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/monsanto200805?currentPage=1)

Whistleblower: Monsanto Wants to Kill The Bees To Make Way For Its Super-Bee (http://www.pakalertpress.com/2012/01/26/whistleblower-monsanto-wants-to-kill-the-bees-to-make-way-for-its-super-bee/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pakalert+%28Pak+Alert+Press%29)
       
posted by Armando Rozário ¹²³ macanese - Cabo Frio, Brazil     -    January 30, 2012.

Source: China Daily (http://bbs.chinadaily.com.cn/thread-729706-1-1.html)

Monsanto may be behind Bee Colony Deaths (http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=804323&page=1) - ATS Thread


Related AboveTopSecret.com Discussion Threads: (Not gone through these ones yet)

1. DEA is Investigating Montana State Legislators Over State Laws (http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread803985/pg1)
2. USDA Forces Whole Foods To Accept Monsanto (http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread804210/pg1)
3. Monsanto *is* The Federal Government - The Venn Diagram (http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread778572/pg1)
4. Monsanto & Cancer Milk: Fox News Kills Story & Fires Reporters (http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread469894/pg1)
Title: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: burntheships on March 29, 2012, 11:59:14 am
Dramatic decline of bees caused by modern pesticides damaging their ability to home in on their hives, say researchers



French researchers tagged 650 honeybees with tiny microchips attached to their necks in a study which tracked all the bee movements.

Researchers found that the pesticides are preventing bees from
finding their way back to the hive




Half the bees were exposed to low doses of insecticide similar to what they would find in the wild, and when released, these ones were found to be two or three times more likely to die away from their hive.

Neo-nicotoinoids, based on the chemical nicotine, were introduced as an insecticide in the 1990s, and have become the most popular for crops and gardens in the world.


SOURCEhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2122180/Pesticides-stop-bees-homing-hives-says-study.html#ixzz1qX4IvDfB

RFID Tracking of Sublethal Effects of Two Neonicotinoid Insecticides on the Foraging Behavior of Apis mellifera

 

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0030023

 
Title: Re: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: sky otter on March 29, 2012, 12:04:49 pm
Neo-nicotoinoids
are what make the flea stuff on dogs and cats work

also roundup which tons of our neighbors use all summer cause it was hyped as safe
and yard spraying of chemicals
are right up there....it's big companies selling to the guy who wnats a nice lawn

and what do you think is in the stuff they spray to keep the mosquitoes down...

yuk
Title: Re: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: hobbit on March 29, 2012, 12:19:51 pm
If I could be allowed to offer a different explanation of why the bees are stressed?????
They are becoming lost.
They navigate by something which to ourselves is none visable....except to hobbits.
http://scotland.stv.tv/myths-mysteries/167106-rosslyn-chapel-the-12-great-mysteries/

That is Rosslyn chapel, where bee hive areas were left by the master masons who built Rosslyn.
I suggest out of their huge respect for the bees.

I study bees and follow them, they are wonderfull, and build perfectly packed hives to raise their young.
To create their queen they turn their pods through ninty degrees, thus the outcome is different.

I also follow that which the bees do....the matrix, and note how our digital world is impacting upon it.

Hobbit
Title: Re: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: Captain Dave on March 29, 2012, 12:44:08 pm
The area I live in (Galveston Island Texas) sends out city trucks on a regular basis with giant foggers attached which spray pesticieds to kill off mosquito's...

They especially spray around protected wetlands areas! Ok, now do they even have a real clue of what those pesticieds are doing to the ecosystem!?

We Had a large honey bee population in the area - not so much anymore.

WHY not build bat boxes (bat housing) instead or swallow boxes? The bats and swallows eat the mosquito's and promote a healthier environment all around!

We have sunflowers growing in the area which do seem to be attracting bees back however after hurricane Ike most of the sunflowers were wiped out... I suppose building some bee hives wouldn't be a bad idea either...

Bat boxes, bird houses, bee hives all cheap to maintain and promotes nature = Healthy environment.

Spray Chemicals affecting water sources and entire ecosystems in deadly ways = Death to environment.

Who the hell is in charge of common sense within our systems?
Title: Re: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: hobbit on March 29, 2012, 12:52:44 pm
Heres some links to when our ancestors showed the matrix,
http://www.stonepages.com/scacchiera/

The bees follow this matrix, but are becoming LOST...thus stressed.

We have over twenty varieties of mosquito in the Uk, but none are vectors of maleria, which is why the spraying is undertaken.
The mosquito is seeking hormones to reproduce, female in particuler.
Our arrogance deems that they have no right to do so????

This link is to japanese so called burial mounds, they are portals positioned in a matrix, exactly where the bees build their hives....I check...oddball I am.
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=My_eGallery&file=index&do=showpic&pid=87797&orderby=dateD

The paintings represent solar and lunar timings, and how this affects the flows upon the matrix...I check.

The bees utilise this to navigate, in our blind arrogance We(YOU) are destroying this with the global digital signals swamping the natural.


hobbit
Title: Re: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: Littleenki on June 03, 2012, 09:06:33 am
hey Capn Dave, miss you buddy!
Littleenki
Title: Re: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction Probable Causes
Post by: burntheships on September 10, 2012, 09:14:24 pm


This makes complete sense, if the beekeepers are using Corn Syrup in the hives,
no wonder the beehive suffer from CCD!

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In a third study, to be published soon in the Bulletin of Insectology, seemingly healthy honey colonies were fed high-fructose corn syrup that had been treated with imidacloprid. Within six months, fifteen out of the sixteen hives that had been given the treated syrup were dead. In commercial beekeeping operations, bees are routinely fed corn syrup, and corn is routinely treated with neonicotinoids.

“I believe one reason that commercial beekeepers are experiencing the most severe Colony Collapse Disorder is because of the link between high-fructose corn syrup and neonicotinoids,” said the lead author of the study, Chensheng Lu, a professor at Harvard. (Bayer CropScience, one of the world’s largest producers of neonicotinoids, has disputed Lu’s paper, as well as the other two.)


Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/04/new-studies-colony-collapse-disorder.html#ixzz2Iok2PQph



More on the corn syrup angle...

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Every spring millions of bee colonies are trucked to the Central Valley of California and other agricultural areas to replace the wild pollinators, which have all but disappeared in many parts of the country. These bees are routinely fed high-fructose corn syrup instead of their own nutritious honey. And in an effort to boost productivity, the queens are now artificially inseminated, which has led to a disturbing decline in bee genetic diversity. Bees are also dusted with chemical poisons to control mites and other pathogens that have flourished in the overcrowded commercial colonies.
 
In 1923, Rudolph Steiner, the German founder of biodynamic agriculture, a precursor of the modern organic movement, predicted that within a hundred years artificial industrial techniques used to breed honey bees would lead to the species’ collapse. His prophecy was right on target!
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/04/09/mystery-of-the-disappearing-bees-solved/




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It sounds like something out of a science fiction movie — for the past 5 or so years, honeybee populations across the globe have been dying out, and scientists don’t really know why. That is, researchers hope, until now.
 
A pair of recent studies have pointed to pesticides as the main culprit for Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), the term scientists use for sudden declines in bee populations. So where are these pesticides coming from? Right inside the hive itself.
 
Beekeepers use high-fructose corn syrup to supplement hives decanted of honey; since a great deal of American-grown corn is sprayed with neonicotinoids, a class of insecticides, traceable amounts can often be found in the corn syrup.


http://www.care2.com/greenliving/is-corn-syrup-killing-bees.html




Pesticides and High Fructose Corn Syrup Recreate "Classic" Colony Collapse Disorder in Experiments

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Harvard researchers have literally recreated classic cases of Colony Collapse Disorder by treating bees with minute doses of Bayer's imidacloprid:


Past research has shown that neonicotinoid pesticides, which target insects' central nervous system, do not instantly kill bees. However, to test the effect of even small amounts of these pesticides on western honeybees (Apis mellifera), Harvard researchers treated 16 hives with different levels of imidacloprid, leaving four hives untreated. After 12 weeks, the bees in all twenty hives—treated and untreated—were alive, though those treated with the highest does of imidacloprid appeared weaker. But by 23 weeks everything had changed: 15 out of the 16 hives (94 percent) treated with imidacloprid underwent classic Colony Collapse Disorder: hives were largely empty with only a few young bees surviving. The adults had simply vanished. The hives that received the highest doses of imidacloprid collapsed first. Meanwhile the five untreated hives were healthy.

While authors of previous studies have been cautious about drawing too many conclusions, suggesting that insecticides may be a contributing factor alongside habitat loss, climate change etc—lead author Chensheng (Alex) Lu was more unequivocal, stating that there is clear evidence that imidacloprid and other neonicotinoids are the likely "culprit for Colony Collapse Disorder".

Interestingly, the study also suggests that one of the ways bees are being exposed to imidacloprid may be through high fructose corn syrup which beekeepers have been feeding their colonies for years. U.S. corn began to be sprayed with imidacloprid in 2004-2005, just around the same time that CCD appeared on the scene.

http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-agriculture/pesticides-and-high-fructose-corn-syrup-recreate-classic-colony-collapse-disorder-experiments.html 

Researchers recreate bee collapse with pesticide-laced corn syrup


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Scientists with the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have re-created the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder in several honeybee hives simply by giving them small doses of a popular pesticide, imidacloprid. Bee populations have been dying mysteriously throughout North America and Europe since 2006, but the cause behind the decline, known as Colony Collapse Disorder, has eluded scientists. However, coming on the heels of two studies published last week in Science that linked bee declines to neonicotinoid pesticides, of which imidacloprid is one, the new study adds more evidence that the major player behind Colony Collapse Disorder is not disease, or mites, but pesticides that began to be widely used in the 1990s.


http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0405-hance_colonycollapse_pesticides.html 
Title: Beekeepers Expect "Worst Year For Bees,We’re Facing The Extinction Of A Species"
Post by: burntheships on January 24, 2013, 11:13:55 am
On the heels of the EFSA Study that
nails the pesticide use as a cause of devastation,
we have this news from the beekeepers.


This is an environmental nightmare.
Bee population is in severe decline, with reports as low as
50% decline in the U.S and the E.U.

http://speakupforthevoiceless.org/2013/01/18/environmentalism-chapter-6-bee-decline-an-environmental-nightmare/

“We’re facing the extinction of a species.” 

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“We’re facing the extinction of a species.” That’s what one Midwest-based large-scale commercial beekeeper told me last week at the annual gathering
of the American Honey Producers Association (AHPA). And he meant it.

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As one beekeeper told me, “On average, 40% over-wintering losses
across the country. That’s what we’re facing. And my losses are closer to 70% — this is likely gonna be the worst year for bees.”

And as many of us are
already aware, the large corporations are
complicit together in ignoring this grave issue.

The beekeepers themselves identify Bayer, Monsanto and
Aysta hosting workshops to pacify beekeepers!


The consensus from the beekeepers : "If history is any guide, these
corporations will likely continue to object to finding healthy, sustainable
and commonsense solutions to bee declines."


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as evidence mounts showing pesticides to be a key catalyst in bee declines. And representatives from chemical giants like Arysta, Bayer and Monsanto made their presence known, even hosting workshops to pacify concerned beekeepers.
 
These corporations have a lot at stake. With the market becoming increasingly consolidated, just a few companies manufacture many of the same seeds and pesticides implicated in honey bee losses.
 http://www.panna.org/blog/beekeepers-expect-worst-year-bees

The corporations are well aware
time is closing in, and they are even now facing
the wrath of the beekeepers.



The Bumblebees Native to The United States are also in severe decline


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A large survey of bumblebees in the United States shows that several species have declined substantially over the past 2 to 3 decades, verifying the suspicions of scientists who have seen local populations disappear. "We've lost a lot of bees. There are whole regions where we can't find them any more," says entomologist Sydney Cameron of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The new research also suggests that a parasite might be driving the die-off, as declining species have higher rates of infection than do stable species.

Bumblebees pollinate many plants and crops such as tomatoes, pumpkins, and blueberries. They're particularly effective because they "buzz-pollinate," vibrating their wings fast to release lots of pollen. And their large size means that they can fly in weather that keeps honeybees, which pollinate some of the same plants, in their hives.


http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/01/bumblebee-decline-confirmed-acro.html

 



EFSA Study: Pesticides Harming Bees

http://www.greenerideal.com/science/0121-efsa-study-pesticides-harming-bees/

http://www.foodnavigator.com/Legislation/EFSA-identifies-insecticides-as-risk-factor-for-bee-colony-collapse

Bee Protection ‘Essential’ After Scientists lLink Decline In Numbers With Insecticides
 


The European Food Standards Agency (EFSA) has identified a number of
dangerous risks to bees posed by a trio of common insecticides.


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“Given the importance of bees in the ecosystem and the food chain and given the
multiple services they provide to humans, their protection is essential”...


“The clear link between neonicotinoid pesticides and declining bee health must sting the government into action – we can’t afford to dither when it comes to protecting these key pollinators”, said executive director Andy Atkins.
 

“Ministers must urgently remove these dangerous chemicals from sale, overhaul inadequate pesticide safety tests and ensure farmers have access to safe, effective alternatives to enable them to produce food without harming our bees.
 

“Tens of thousands of people are backing our call for a National Bee Action Plan – it’s time the government listened.”
http://blueandgreentomorrow.com/2013/01/16/bee-decline-insecticides/


The Silence of The Bees

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cU9ZunVl3o



It looks like the clock is running out, its time we all listened.

As these beekeepers have said, its going to take all of us.

It will take all of us to make sure they are successful, and to ensure we will have healthy bees and beekeepers for years to come
Title: Re: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: petrus4 on January 24, 2013, 07:35:30 pm
As I have said before; in one corner of the ring, we have the corporation.  In the other, we have carbon based life.
Title: Re: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: zorgon on January 24, 2013, 08:38:33 pm
Ya know... sometimes life is funny...

Either that or my powers of materialization are more powerful than i thought :D

I was thinking when I read this latest article that maybe we should just do what the abundance crowds want to see happen and make ROBOT BEES

 :o

 ::)

So on a whim  I did a fast search...

And GUESS WHAT?   :o

Robot Bees Designed To Take Over for Real Dying Bees
By Slate Staff
Posted Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012,


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A bumblebee flying near lavender.
Photo by JOEL SAGET/AFP/GettyImages.


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Autonomous robot bugs sound like creatures from a sci-fi flick, but they could be a reality very soon.



Scientists at the Universities of Sheffield and Sussex in England are designing the first electronic bees in hopes that they can "supplement or replace the shrinking population of honey bees that pollinate essential plant life," according to the tech blog io9.

The Green Brain Project, as the effort is called, will upload real bees' senses of sight and smell into the tiny robots. Scientists hope these basic cognitive abilities will allow e-bees to detect odors and gases from flowers, just as bees do. The project plans to release the bees in 2015.

Along with making the world safe for pollination, these bees don't sting. That is, unless they get into the wrong hands ...

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E-BEES
Title: Re: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: petrus4 on January 24, 2013, 10:12:56 pm
I was thinking when I read this latest article that maybe we should just do what the abundance crowds want to see happen and make ROBOT BEES

I hope you're not assuming that I am one of the people who thinks that would be a good idea, Zorgon.  I advocate the use of automation, yes; but I've never advocated it for more than simple, rote tasks.  I like to think I've been fairly consistent about emphasising that.

Trying to use robots to emulate entire natural life forms is disastrously arrogant, and is only asking for trouble.  Technology has its' uses, but good engineering can only ever emulate pre-existing natural processes anyway; and never for more than extremely simple tasks, as mentioned. 

Nature is our teacher.  Mechanical/electronic technology can and should work with it.  Attempting to replace Nature, however, will not accomplish anything other than our extinction.  The fact that I realise this, is what distinguishes me from the transhumanists.

If you have to give me a label, I am willing to answer to either the term, "Steampunk," or "Reform Luddite;" but in my own case at least, please do not assume that I advocate the replacement of Nature with machines, or that I am a transhumanist.  I am not one of them at all.
Title: Re: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: Amaterasu on January 25, 2013, 10:34:07 am
I'm guessing these robot bees will not be making much honey...

And I suppose if We need to artificially pollinate, this is not the worst choice.  Still, the closer to nature We are, the better.  And removal of the poisons that are killing Our natural pollinators (and honey makers!) is a far better solution than robots.
Title: Re: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: sky otter on January 25, 2013, 11:28:31 am

well the good news if there is any is that there are other pollinators out there and they are stepping up..which is good
just not on a commercial level
plus there are wild bees that are not supplied anything to keep them alive thur the winter


i know this will sound stange to a few who haven't realized i'm happily nuts..lol
 but
several years ago we had 6 hives and the mite problem wiped them out..it was scary awful
the second year
i sat out in the garden and ask the earth divas and who ever was in charge to sent us some bees for the garden..i was sincere, hopeful and believing

the very next day as i sat beside the walnut tree to meditate i heard the sound of a swarm..
from previous experience i knew the sound
they landed about 15 ft away in the huge twisted maple..i didn't know it had an opening and  hollow parts...
i yelled for hubby, cause he is the bee keeper, to get a super and see if we could get the swarm into it...they were up about 16/18 ft on a large limb
we put a readied super under the limb and hubby was going to shaken them into it when
 we realized that they where going into the tree
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

we were incredulous and wow'd by it....
thur the years that followed hubby captured many a swarm from this group..the tree could only hold so many and they were very productive...wild bees are a bit smaller and much gentler than
cultivated bees
then they froze in a very cold year..and we had lost the last two hives to a young passing thur bear

last year the tree had bees again..i am hoping for them to make it thur this winter

 ;D
Title: Re: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: zorgon on February 12, 2013, 10:20:07 pm
I hope you're not assuming that I am one of the people who thinks that would be a good idea,

No I was musing.... and decided to do a search, like I usually do when the muse hits me and I am always surprised when I find an article that supports my muse :P

You, my friend, are far too touchy for your own good :P
Title: Re: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: zorgon on February 12, 2013, 10:43:49 pm
From Dr Joe Resnick

Parasites that attack Bees...

This is a 'trachea-mite' that attaches to the bee's air sacks and eventually suffocates the bee...

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This is a 'varrowa-mite'....

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Similarly, the varrowa mite clings to the bee's air sack and eventually suffocates the bee....

(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/556262_4691347554717_767715976_n.jpg)

This is the 'Bee Medica' I 'invented' that kills trachea and varrow mites... The substance inside the microcapsule is Australian Tea Tree Oil...which is harmless to bees. The microcapsules in this slide show are 25microns in size...that is 1/4th the size of a salt crystal found in your table salt...very small. The shell is made of pure Beeswax and the core contains the Tea Tree Oil. The honey bee carries the microcapsule into the brood box where the beeswax is consumed and the tea tree oil is released (spilled). The oil 'off-gasses' and it is this 'gas' containing the Volitile Organic Compound that kills the mites. Pretty 'kewel'...huh?

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Title: Re: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: burntheships on February 16, 2013, 02:23:33 pm
Another huge bee kill, this time its 1,500 Mayan bee colonies,
and GMO Pesticides are directly implicated again in the colony deaths!


Further, the farmers have lost all of the honey, due to contamination!

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The Yucatan Times  (http://www.theyucatantimes.com/2013/02/1500-colonies-of-honeybees-die-in-campeche/)’ breaking news regarding the death of 1500 bee colonies caused by the spraying of Monsanto’s Roundup on GM maize in an impoverished Mayan farming community in Mexico.
 
1,500 colonies of honeybees, from a community in Hopelchen, Campeche, died this February 6 from the fumigation of Monsanto’s GMO’s in a nearby area.
 
This has directly impacted more than 50 impoverished families, who recently suffered a poor corn crop due to drought. The community was relying on their sale of organic honey to compensate for the lack of maize. The current honey left by the bees is also lost due to the contamination of pesticides and transgenic pollen.
http://sustainablepulse.com/2013/02/10/mayan-farmers-gmos-cause-end-of-the-world-1500-bee-colonies/

And, as we have seen in the past, the agencies are once again turning a blind eye!

Alvaro Mena, a mayan farmer from Hopelchen testifies that GMO’s are known to be resistant to pesticides and are planted in large plots, in which huge amounts of Monsanto's Round Up pesticides are applied.

Several networks of scientists and farmers scheduled a debate, held at the Faculty of Science, thousands showed up to participate in the debate on GM maize on Thursday, February 7, packed out the auditorium,  and the officials would not attend, stating they hold no position, and were too busy to attend.

This sure seems to be a concerted effort on the part of many to conceal the
true causes of bee extinciton.

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Peter Rosset, biologist and researcher, presented a list of papers published in refereed scientific journals, particularly a compilation of studies conducted in 2009 by scientists and Ioannis S. Dona Artemis Arvanitoyannis, indicating that GM crops are associated with toxic effects, hepatic, pancreatic, renal, reproductive and immune and blood disorders and cancer effects.


The Mayan bee farmer Alvaro Mena called to the public to support the growth of
2013 becoming the “Year of resistance"
Title: Re: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: burntheships on February 16, 2013, 09:08:28 pm
Another massive bee die off, this time in California.
The results are in, and here again, pesticides are implicated in this
750,000k bee kill.


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“It was devastating to see the number of dead bees outside the hive, and watch those in their death throes, twitching and stumbling around in front of the hive, unable to fly,” Kappel added. Over the next few weeks she watched as her hive went from a healthy population of almost 70,000 bees to being completely empty in less than a month with dead bodies scattered everywhere.http://www.independent.com/news/2013/feb/03/montecito-bees-signal-things-come/

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A total of 16 formerly healthy hives, with an average population of 30-60,000 bees each were lost. SBBA estimates approximately 750,000 bees lost their lives, all within a 1.5-mile radius. The Association submitted four test samples to Penn State University for a comprehensive pesticide screening and just received the reports back from the USDA labs.

As SBBA leaders suspected, there were several commonly used pesticides found in bee food stores, brood cells and wax. http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?nid=107958
Title: Re: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: zorgon on February 17, 2013, 11:56:02 am
Up to 12 million Bees Found Dead in Florida and No one Knows Why

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Authorities have already ruled out disease, including the infamous “Colony Collapse Disorder” (CCD), as the cause of a recent honeybee holocaust that took place in Brevard County, Florida. The UK’s Daily Mail reports that up to 12 million bees from roughly 800 apiaries in the area all dropped dead at roughly the same time around September 26 — and local beekeepers say pesticides are likely to blame. CCD is the term often used to describe the inexplicable mass die-off of honeybees around the world, which typically involves honeybees leaving their hives and, for whatever reason, never finding their way back home. Mass die-offs associated with CCD often occur at seemingly random locations around the world, and typically involve a gradual process of disappearance and eventual colony collapse — and the dead bees are typically nowhere to be found. But the recent Florida event involved hundreds of colonies from 30 different sites in a one-and-a-half mile radius literally dropping dead all at the same time and leaving their carcasses behind, which is why authorities have dismissed CCD as the cause. Based on the appearance of the dead bees, as well as the synchronous timing of their deaths, pesticide spraying appear to be the culprit in this case. “I’m a pretty tough guy, but it is heart wrenching,” said Charles Smith of Smith Family Honey Company to News 13 in Orlando

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His family’s company lost an estimated $150,000 worth of bees in the recent die-off. “Not only is it a monetary loss here, but we work really hard on these bees to keep them in good health.” The Florida die-off coincides with a recent county-wide mosquito eradication effort, during which helicopters flew over various parts of the county and sprayed airborne pesticides. Officials, of course, deny that this taxpayer-funded spraying initiative had anything to do with the bee genocide, though. “The fact that it was so widespread and so rapid, I think you can pretty much rule out disease,” said Bill Kern, an entomologist from the University of Florida (UF) to Florida Today. “It happened essentially almost in one day. Usually diseases affect adults or the brood, you don’t have something that kills them both.” Many of the beekeepers who lost their hives in the mass killing raised their bees to sell to American farmers, who then used them to pollinate food crops. Because of their massive losses, many of these beekeepers could end up losing their entire beekeeping businesses.

http://worldtruth.tv/up-to-12-million-bees-found-dead-in-florida-and-no-one-knows-why/
Title: Re: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: sky otter on February 17, 2013, 02:42:26 pm

they spray for mosquitoes  there all the time..check this out
i put some spaces in cause it was all pushed together and hard to read


http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g34434-i3909-k5448413-3_times_a_week_Brevard_mosquitoe_spraying_Melbourne_beach_Fl-Melbourne_Beach_Florida.html


“ 3 times a week Brevard mosquitoe spraying Melbourne beach Fl ”
May 25, 2012, 7:48 PM
If i knew that Brevard county sprays for mosquitoes so much i wouldnt move here.

THE AREAS ARE MELBOURNE BEACH ISLAND, SEBASTIAN INLET STATE PARK, LONG POINT HEAVILY SPRAYED WEEKLY BY BREVARD MOSQUITOE CONTROL.. I ve had sore throat, and feeling unwell, it effects endocrine system. I never get sore throat in Florida.

They spray 2-3 times a week by truck and by helicopter. If you think its very pretty here dont be fooled. The spraying does little to control mosquitoes, yes we have billion mosquitoes here, but its either they come up with eco ways to control mosquitoes or people should not live here at all, just visit and to go to beach only.

 Mosquitoes are not bad on the ocean side, only bad on low lying river side. Houses on ocean side are fine, houses on opposite ocean streets get sprayed heavily with toxic Biomist15 which causes endocrine disruption in humans, animals

. Bees are gone and i cant imagine after having sore throat how safe this operation really is? Mosquitoe control lies that it is safe. We already have pollution from cars and etc, why pollute more? They need to stop spraying and come up with better solutions to control mosquitoes in Brevard county. We need fresh air!

......................................

http://www.brevardcounty.us/MosquitoControl/SprayAreas

http://web.brevardcounty.us/PublicRecordsRequest/
Title: Re: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: zorgon on May 30, 2013, 02:24:14 am

Tens of millions of Florida bees mysteriously drop dead in one day, beekeepers blame pesticides

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(Natural News) Authorities have already ruled out disease, including the infamous “Colony Collapse Disorder” (CCD), as the cause of a recent honeybee holocaust that took place in Brevard County, Florida. The UK’s Daily Mail reports that up to 12 million bees from roughly 800 apiaries in the area all dropped dead at roughly the same time around September 26 — and local beekeepers say pesticides are likely to blame.

CCD is the term often used to describe the inexplicable mass die-off of honeybees around the world, which typically involves honeybees leaving their hives and, for whatever reason, never finding their way back home. Mass die-offs associated with CCD often occur at seemingly random locations around the world, and typically involve a gradual process of disappearance and eventual colony collapse — and the dead bees are typically nowhere to be found.

But the recent Florida event involved hundreds of colonies from 30 different sites in a one-and-a-half mile radius literally dropping dead all at the same time and leaving their carcasses behind, which is why authorities have dismissed CCD as the cause. Based on the appearance of the dead bees, as well as the synchronous timing of their deaths, pesticide sprayings appear to be the culprit in this case.

“I’m a pretty tough guy, but it is heart wrenching,” said Charles Smith of Smith Family Honey Company to News 13 in Orlando. His family’s company lost an estimated $150,000 worth of bees in the recent die-off. “Not only is it a monetary loss here, but we work really hard on these bees to keep them in good health.”

The Florida die-off coincides with a recent county-wide mosquito eradication effort, during which helicopters flew over various parts of the county and sprayed airborne pesticides. Officials, of course, deny that this taxpayer-funded spraying initiative had anything to do with the bee genocide, though.

“The fact that it was so widespread and so rapid, I think you can pretty much rule out disease,” said Bill Kern, an entomologist from the University of Florida (UF) to Florida Today. “It happened essentially almost in one day. Usually diseases affect adults or the brood, you don’t have something that kills them both.”

Many of the beekeepers who lost their hives in the mass killing raised their bees to sell to American farmers, who then used them to pollinate food crops. Because of their massive losses, many of these beekeepers could end up losing their entire beekeeping businesses.

Visit Natural News (http://naturalnews.com/) for more information.

http://www.realfarmacy.com/tens-of-millions-of-florida-bees-mysteriously-drop-dead-in-one-day-beekeepers-blame-pesticides/
Title: Re: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: zorgon on July 08, 2013, 05:36:26 pm
Tis the Season... More Dead Bees

37 Million Bees Found Dead in Elmwood Canada

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Local beekeepers are finding millions of their bees dead just after corn was planted here in the last few weeks. Dave Schuit, who has a honey operation in Elmwood, lost 600 hives, a total of 37 million bees.

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“Once the corn started to get planted our bees died by the millions,” Schuit said. He and many others, including the European Union, are pointing the finger at a class of insecticides known as neonicotinoids, manufactured by Bayer CropScience Inc. used in planting corn and some other crops. The European Union just recently voted to ban these insecticides for two years, beginning December 1, 2013, to be able to study how it relates to the large bee kill they are experiencing there also.

Local grower Nathan Carey from the Neustadt, and National Farmers Union Local 344 member, says he noticed this spring the lack of bees and bumblebees on his farm. He believes that there is a strong connection between the insecticide use and the death of pollinators.

“I feel like we all have something at stake with this issue,” he said. He is organizing a public workshop and panel discussion about this problem at his farm June 22 at 10 a.m. He hopes that all interested parties can get together and talk about the reason bees, the prime pollinators of so any different plant species, are dying.

At the farm of Gary Kenny, south west of Hanover, eight of the 10 hives he kept for a beekeeper out of Kincardine, died this spring just after corn was planted in neighbouring fields.

http://worldtruth.tv/37-million-bees-found-dead-in-elmwood-canada/
Title: Re: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: zorgon on July 08, 2013, 06:04:19 pm
25,000 Bees Found Dead In Oregon Parking Lot, Environmental Organization Says
The Huffington Post  |  Posted: 06/20/2013


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Tens of thousands of dead bees and other insects were found in a Target parking lot in Oregon earlier this week in what is being called one of the largest mass deaths of bumblebees in the western U.S., a local environmental organization says.

The dead bumblebees, reported to be around 25,000 number, were found by shoppers under blooming European linden trees in Wilsonville, Ore., according to the Xerces Society, a Portland-based nonprofit that studies bees and other invertebrates. Xerces was the first to document Monday's mass death.

Update (June 21, 12:15pm): Bee-proof netting is being installed to cover the 55 linden trees in the parking lot to prevent further bee deaths, The Oregonian reports. The paper also reported that the Oregon Department of Agriculture is working with a number of organizations, including the maker of Safari, the insecticide suspected in the deaths, to determine further action.

Previously reported:

While the cause of the die-off remains unknown, the organization believes the incident may be from a toxic pesticide that was used on the trees for cosmetic reasons, or simply because the trees are members of a poisonous species.

The Oregon Department of Agriculture is working to determine the cause.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/20/bees-dead-oregon-target-_n_3472870.html


Title: Re: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: zorgon on July 08, 2013, 06:07:50 pm
After 50,000 dead bees found in Wilsonville, more dead bees discovered in Hillsboro

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Pictured is one of the estimated 50,000 bumblebees found dead in Wilsonville. (Motoya Nakamura/The Oregonian)

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The City of Hillsboro and the Oregon Department of Agriculture are investigating the deaths of what could be hundreds of bees in downown Hillsboro over the past few days.
 
The city notified state agricultural officials and the Xerces Society Friday. The kill-off is more alarming because its discovery comes after an estimated 50,000 bumblebees were found dead at a Target parking lot in Wilsonville during the past week or so.
 
“We take it seriously,” Hillsboro spokesman Patrick Preston said, Saturday. “We recognize the importance of bees.”
 
Hillsboro officials aren’t sure what’s killing the bees, but Preston confirmed that the trees in downtown Hillsboro were treated with the same pesticide, Safari spray, as 55 trees that were sprayed in Wilsonville. Agricultural officials determined that the insecticide — which is meant to kill aphids — caused the Wilsonville bees’ deaths.

http://www.oregonlive.com/hillsboro/index.ssf/2013/06/after_50000_bees_die_in_wilson.html
Title: Re: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: micjer on July 09, 2013, 05:23:47 am
Tis the Season... More Dead Bees

37 Million Bees Found Dead in Elmwood Canada

(http://worldtruth.tv/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/37-million-bees-found-dead.jpg)


Update.  This guy is not too far from where I live.  He was on the local news last night and the bees are still dying off.  Corn planting has been done for 2 months, so he is saying there is a residual effect from the insecticide that is still killing his bees.  Autopsies on the bees show traces of  neonicotinoids, so he has proof.

There is a petition from the bee growers of Ontario to Health Canada to ban the use of these insecticides before next years growing season.  Most of the seed corn grown in Canada comes from the US and some from Chile,  so it will surprise me if the petition is won.
Title: Re: Global Honey Bee Disorders and Extinction
Post by: larishira on June 23, 2015, 10:47:36 pm
this is remember a lot the X files first movie....