Another Possible Explanation for the Devastating Disappearance of Honeybees

re: Another Possible Explanation for the Devastating Disappearance of Honeybees

CEM — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:13:15 GMT

Google the non-thermal bioeffects of chronic exposure to electromagnetic/microwave/radiowave fields starting with the Bioinitiative Report. These frequencies literally destroy the immune system.

So yea, microorganisms are involved in the honeybee die-off and Colony Collapse Disorder, but that is just a symptom - I repeat a SYMPTOM.

I say this because I have 'chronic Lyme' and SEVERE Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity - a recognized emerging environmental illness in Sweden.

re: Another Possible Explanation for the Devastating Disappearance of Honeybees

judge — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:17:05 GMT

Pesticides people!!!!!!!! Pesticides not radio waves. The sun produces more ambient radio waves and xray exposure than you can imagine.

The pesticide companies in this country are very powerful and are trying to cover up the fact that approximately 3-5 years ago they produced a fantastic cheap pesticide that has little detectable dangerous residue. It has taken a few years to get it distributed and used nationwide and it is killing the bees! No one can figure it out because the pesticide companies have the science of hiding dangerous residue detection to almost perfection!!

Bad Pesticides are the problem. Not global warming , not cell phones, not computers, not TV!!

All that other bull you are hearing is being fabricated and fed to the sensationalistic brainwashed public...... just to keep everyone confused so nobody sues the pesticide companies!

Get a grip people and snap out of the 5 o'clock news phoney baloney!

re: Another Possible Explanation for the Devastating Disappearance of Honeybees

Witch Doctor — Tue, 08 May 2007 21:31:15 GMT

Long Live the Dead Bees. Dead bees are not dying out. They are thriving. Global warming, dead sea zones, etc.. just aren't capturing the (questioning) public imagination enough, so dead bees must continue to live and grow in the national psyche and hopefully hit critical mass. Yes, we always need plenty of things that spell the doom of mankind. I predict a long and healthy future for dead bees.

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RichL_203 — Tue, 08 May 2007 20:00:54 GMT

My local organic farmer is getting bees placed on the farmland.
We will see how they do.

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atmadave — Tue, 08 May 2007 18:00:30 GMT

I was talking to a bee keeper this weekend and he thought that depletion of the bees immune system was the cause and this could well be caused by feeding gm corn syrup during the winter. Bees are fed sugar anyway but the increasing prevalence of gmo corn means that beekeepers may not know that they are giving this to the bees. The only piece of research to look at the effects of gm foods on animals or humans found that mice fed on gm potatoes had extensive organ damage.

re: Another Possible Explanation for the Devastating Disappearance of Honeybees

GeekieMom — Tue, 08 May 2007 17:16:16 GMT

I am intrigued by the possibility that changes in the earth's magnetic field might have caused bees to disappear:

http://www.synchronizm.com/blog/index.php/2007/03/29/the-bees-who-flew-too-high/

We have been at solar minimum for several months (some say since November 2006), and the noisy/quiet status of the sun does have an impact on the magnetic field.

I like to look at these sites frequently:

http://www.iceagenow.com
http://www.spaceweather.com

re: Another Possible Explanation for the Devastating Disappearance of Honeybees

ulcer-healer — Tue, 08 May 2007 16:22:30 GMT

Dr. Mercola, there is another very big possibility you should consider. Do you really think it is just a coincidence that in the same 7 years that the bees have started this major decline, we have also seen a dramatic increase in chemtrails. Asthma has also increased 80% in the same period. Google chemtrails. Also google "strange days strange skies".
There is also a documentary tittled "Aerosol Crimes" thar aired on PPS.

re: Another Possible Explanation for the Devastating Disappearance of Honeybees

Jonathan B — Tue, 08 May 2007 16:04:23 GMT

There has been some very interesting and likely suspects brought forth on the cause of honey bee colony collapse.

I agree that new fungi, new pesticides, GM plant contamination of bee food, and genetic drift from GM plants to bacteria in bees, and corn syrup feeding could be reasons for the collapse, I would like to suggest yet another reason.

This week, an article came out reporting that the giant asian hornet, a species usually found in the mountains of Japan and other nations in the asian subcontinent had found its way to France and had been actively wiping out the honey bee colonies there, since bees are a staple in this hornets diet. This animal is an insatiable killer, and a few of these hornets can wipe out a colony in short order.

These hornets have spread quickly across France, and have devastated the population of honey bees there.

I do not think that those hornets are in the United States, but I am aware that a variety of previously unknown insects have used the world trade of fruit and vegetables and other goods to travel to nations they have not been in before. Formosa termites, flying roaches from asia, and wood eating giant roaches have established themselves here, to the annoyance of the U.S. Public.

Is it possible that, aside from the varroa mites, there might be some small insect pest, like the recluse spider that now plagues U.S. homes, and the bed bug, that has re-established itself in homes and hotels, that a new small predator is poisoning and wiping out the bees.

The arrival of new species does not have to be splashy like giant hornets or giant cockroaches, but might be some some, barely noticable nasty with a venomous bite and a taste for bees.

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bob_m_frank — Tue, 08 May 2007 14:23:33 GMT

I attended a bee garden this weekend at the CAL, University of California at Berkeley. We asked if bee populations were all in serious decline. The project engineer, a professor who's name I do not recall, informed us that bees are NOT in serious decline. Honeybees are having a problem, but they are only part of the bee picture. The day we were in the CAL garden there were almost 40 different kinds of bees. MOst bees do not live in hives, but in the ground or flowers at night after they are hatched once a year. They are solitary insects unlike the honey bees. The professor said that if you put in the proper plants you will have all the bees you need, unless, of course, you or your neighbor kill them all with insecticides. He expressed concern that the media has not covered this important part of the story.

re: Another Possible Explanation for the Devastating Disappearance of Honeybees

Laura D. — Tue, 08 May 2007 13:27:01 GMT

I am a 2nd year beekeeper. I started by taking a small course in a community college where we built our own hives. I joined the local beekeeping club (which is huge, very popular), and also found an organic beekeeping group on line. Well, I lost my bees over winter due to varroa mites which parasitize the bees (not CCD). Now I am finding out that very few beekeepers use organic methods, meaning no meds. Read your honey label, folks - does it say organic? The organic beekeepers report no losses due to CCD. None! The modern beekeeping methods are stressing the bees. Scientists are throwing research money away by trying to find some new disease. Just like the e. coli out break in agriculture - we need cleaner, smaller, organic methods to food production. We need to grow victory gardens. I live 50 minutes from Midtown Manhattan and have a small flock of laying hens, a bee hive, and organic garden in suburban backyard. We all need to do our part in healing the planet and ourselves.

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coveredmomma — Tue, 08 May 2007 13:09:54 GMT

A friend of ours who keeps bees as a hobby has delt with this issue. He does not force feed or any unnatural feeding methods and yet there still is a problem.

re: Another Possible Explanation for the Devastating Disappearance of Honeybees

jwags — Tue, 08 May 2007 12:39:43 GMT

More grwat inof. Too bad the powers that be will probably not listen.

re: Another Possible Explanation for the Devastating Disappearance of Honeybees

shiva — Tue, 08 May 2007 12:34:21 GMT

The Hopi Indians predicted a long time ago that the earth was very soon going to stand up and shake herself off like a big dog that is shaking off it's flees. ..... We humans have become like a scourge upon the land. As the character "Smith" in the movie The Matrix describes, ... we humans have become like a virus upon this planet. ... Our greed and selfishness has and is causing such destructive impacts upon every aspect of the natural order of things in this place we call home, ... and we are only poisoning and destroying ourselves.

........ Other articles on this site discuss the fact that the very water we drink today is unsafe for human consumption due to the fact of how we ourselves are poisoning it. We are in very serious circumstances in this world and yet we do very little to turn things around,.. because the selfish profit motive is what drives us as a people.

What will it take for our society to wake up and change it's values from ones of personal profit,.. to ones of respecting life and our sacred relationship with the natural world? ....... I fear we may very nearly destroy ourselves before it is too late.

re: Another Possible Explanation for the Devastating Disappearance of Honeybees

Koupe — Tue, 08 May 2007 10:46:05 GMT

No one has said anything about other insects and bugs that pollinate flowers. Fortunately there are many billions of them so we will not run out of food immediately.

re: Another Possible Explanation for the Devastating Disappearance of Honeybees

chinkajack — Tue, 08 May 2007 08:36:27 GMT

I have a friend that's a bee keeper. When bee food is in short supply they do well on ordinary white sugar and only white sugar.
There is nothing wrong with going back to basics. Keep the bees happy and healthy naturally and honey won't be hard to get.

Demand and supply determines price.

From what I've read, bees are 'biological geiger counters'.
Anything that comes into contact with their bodies are taken back to the hive if it doesn't kill them first.

Nature doesn't make mistakes, man does.

In one study bees were tested on a field of genetically engineered rapeseed (canola). The bees were released onto the crop and then took the pollen back to their hive and fed it to young bees. When scientists analyzed the bacteria in the gut of the young bees they discovered that it contained the same gene traits as those of the modified crops.

That can't be good.