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When I lived in Reno our Spanish Lavender would be thick with bees, but in the last two years you were lucky to find 4 or 5 bees on it. I'm pretty sure the HOA was spraying pesticides but they denied it and I was never able to catch them...what a shame.
This has been an ongoing problem for many years now. Seems to me we should have found and halted the real cause by now, rather than continue speculating on the bee's demise. Now they're calling it "Bee Flu"? Who's being paid off to say that?
The bees aren't just dying, they are disappearing. No bee corpses are ever found. There was a time when cell phones were being blamed...interfering with the bee's flight pattern or something. Has that theory been tossed out, in favor of Bee Flu?
Maybe they should come and look in my backyard. Wasps, bumblebees, hornets, yellow jackets... they are all over the place. Can I get a little Bee Flu here, please?
This makes the most sense. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a conspiracy but they of course don't care about pollination from bees.
I think pesticides are responsible for at least a small amount of a lot of "newer" diseases (e.g., chronic pain, autism, inflammatory diseases) but no one is going to do the research on this.
I don't know what it is but we're doing something that is messing with our bees. It could be anything from pollination practices to chemicals. One thing is for sure, if we screw them up we'll be in deep doo doo.
I don't know what it is but we're doing something that is messing with our bees. It could be anything from pollination practices to chemicals. One thing is for sure, if we screw them up we'll be in deep doo doo.
Yes when someone makes a thread about some new "gift" congress gave Monsanto, everyone leaps on and defends them..."Business should get to do what they want! Blah to regulation!!"
Yes when someone makes a thread about some new "gift" congress gave Monsanto, everyone leaps on and defends them..."Business should get to do what they want! Blah to regulation!!"
So, when we have one major corporation supplying our food---will people become concerned?
The last couple of years, our community newsletter has repeatedly included articles about the importance of relocating nuisance bee swarms and referrals to a service that will do so for a minimal fee. I'm so happy to see our neighborhood being proactive about this issue.
I think it maaaaaaay be GMO/pesticide activity. GMO is often used to put the pesticide IN the plant, so it's there, root-to-pollen - I'm suspecting. It may be a while before that is studied and/or admitted though.
That would make sense. They put the pesticide in the plant ( or in some cases, breed crops resistant to round-up for weed control) but never considered the effect on the bees. The law of unintended consequences strikes again.
Bees and other pollinating insects are needed to help pollinate crops. If a crop flowers, it needs insects to pollinate it. We all need bees. Honey is great, but it's not the most important thing about bees.
1/3 of the worlds crops uses bees for pollination. We are endangering Nuts, fruits, many vegetables, seeds, cotton, and oil from crops that require pollination.
Yep forget honey, this is their main function. Without them we are toast.
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