What's Killing The Honeybees?
Posted May 21st, 2008 by Desert Rat
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Worldwide, honey bees are dying off at an alarming rate, yet we hear very little if anything from MSM. This should be the most urgent news item in the news.
Bees are responsible for most of all the food that we eat. There are many articles on this subject posted all over the internet. Here is but one story:
Do a search for others. I won't go into the theories behind the bee disappearances. I'll let you come to your own conclusions.
Everyone is talking about planting gardens, etc. for the projected food shortages. Will your efforts be in vain? One estimate states that mankind would become extinct within four years following the total elimination of the honey bee.
Few dead bees are found. Something is interfering with their navigation system so they can't find their way back to the hive and they simply starve to death.
Most of us have heard about how the elite are working hard to reduce human population by over 80%. Alex Jones carps on this subject constantly. What a perfect way to accomplish their evil plan. Nothing EVER happens by accident.
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The ones that are
Hit the hardest are the traveling behives. Yes they load up Semi Trucks and tote hundred of thousands of bee's to various huge orchards to mass prodce and Industrialize cropping. This causes bee's to not only be under huge amounts of stress but it also makes it more likely for them to spread disease amongst the colonies. That is what is happening. Most people who have personal hives aren't experiencing this problem.
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We can all say what needs to be done, but who here led by example today?
Critters go through cycles just like everything else on Earth
People just take these cycles and scare the sh%$ out of other people by twisting them into something horrific.
I remember when the gypsy moths were going to wipe New England off the map. 10% to 15% of the trees in new England were affected...armageddon!
Haven't seen a gypsy moth in 20 years. Trees look OK to me.
In 1985 I was informed that half of my generation would be dead from aids.
Chicken little had it wrong.
Shut off the TV news, please.
Stop reading Rense and Jones their goal is to scare the sh%$ out of you and they are succeeding.
God Bless Dr. Paul.
T
I've been watching this closely
We have about a hundred fruit trees. I paid careful attention this spring to what happened.
We are in Oregon and even though it was a much colder than normal spring we still had good pollination. We did not bring in any hives and neither did any of my close neighbors I noticed bumblebees were pollinating at a much faster rate than honey bees. We also had another type of bee I couldn't identify. Smaller than a honeybee but looked somewhat similar.
At any rate we now have a MUCH larger than average yield this year so we will be busy, busy, busy canning this year.
Genetic pest poisons in the actual plants
Actually its pesticides genetically bred into the plants that keeps insects away, also kills the bees.
It is a serious problem, it also weakens the bee immune system so that it can't fight off tick-like parasites.
Monarch butterflies are getting hit with these pesticides as well.
When planting your gardens try and use old variety seeds - many Amish have them, but even those are getting cross bred with the Monsanto produced stuff.
carpenter bees
Maybe all the carpenter bees in my neighborhood that are eating my house will die off!
Not the end of the world
Honey bees were not even present in North America before the Europeans got here. And yet, countless generations of native americans had survived along with countless generations of flowering plants.
Screw the honey bees! Up with native bees! And screw the beekeepers that live off federal subsidies.
well I know they use viruses and bacteria as a vehicle
to get genes into the monsanto geneticly inhanced farm seedand they have made seed that commits suicide after one yield.maybe as the seed goes so goes the pollen and so goes the bee.
Greedy Idiots Is Whats Killing Bees
http://www.honeyshop.co.u...
Lets feed you refined white sugar syrup and see how long you last.
Those little bees work their asses of to store food(honey) to last the winter and people take all their honey and then feed them crap. How long is their immune system going to last?
GMO crops are probably compounding the issue.
Solution: leave the bees enough of their natural food that they earned to last them the year. Problem solved.
Paper Ballots,Hand Counted At The Precinct Or Bust
Thanks for the link Thomas.
Thanks for the link Thomas. I f you read my psot below is there any way to do this in a non-greedy fashion? Perhaps you are not a bee caretaker. My freind and I were discussing that perhaps if we had only half the honey and the rest was given back to the bees...? We're learning. Other links would be appreciated
I think you make a very good
I think you make a very good point.
Things are only impossible until they are not.
-- Jean Luc Picard
Overblown
This problem is simply overstated, it's panic that the media is just running with.
First...this is not a new problem. We have documented several CCD
(colony collapse disorders) in the past 100 years, this is not larger in scope than other CCD events.
Second...this is over-reported. Many commercial bee keepers are claiming CCD simply because they are waiting to get subsidized. Less than a quarter of all beekeepers in the US claiming CCD actually had CCD, the rest simply didn't take proper care of their hives.
Third...whatever is causing this (still speculative) is very specific to only the European Honey Bee. Even if this becomes a widespread problem (still isn't) then there are certainly other alternatives. There are around 20,000 species of bees on Earth, and there are literally thousands of alternative bees that could pollinate every type of crop imaginable.
The garbage about mankind's extinction without bees is nonsense. Other insects are very capable of pollinating, and many crops used worldwide don't need pollination from insects. I know many of you have read that this quote was attributable to Einstein, but it's simply something he never said.
European honey bees were
brought over from europe hundreds of years ago. We have no way of knowing what that invasion had on native bee populations. Trees in the Amercas were being pollinated long before European honey bees showed up. If they competed out the native pollinators, then we might have a problem. Otherwise the native pollinators will retake the niche they enjoyed for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans and their bees.
My fruit trees yielded a bumper crop last year. If these horribly sick bees were that important my yields should have been affected by now.
Bee mites
are killing the colonies.
It has been found that spearmint or wintergreen essential oils can kill the mites.
With a bee mite problem
you get thousands of dead bee bodies in the hive. They say that with colony collapse disorder the bees disappear.
When we first started keeping bees we practiced the conventional wisdom that has you using pharmaceuticals on the bees, but several years ago we stopped all the drugs, and the bees have been just fine. This year we added colloidal silver to their late winter sugar water just for the fun of it.
My vegan permaculturist
My vegan permaculturist friend just started a hive. She and I were discussing the desire not to use pharmaceuticals and feed them white sugar. Do you let them eat some of their own honey? I know that seems like a dorkey question, but let's face it white sugar is toxic.
my sister
is learning how to keep honey bees and has learned that they no longer are able to survive the mites that live off of them, something has lowered their immune systems
I heard that scientists
I heard that scientists thought it could be cell phone signals.... what they've discovered is that the bees die because they get lost and can't get back to their colonies.... That's why they find them spread out all over the place, but individually... because the cell phone signals throw them off course, and then they can't find their colonies for food and shelter, so they die.
Cell phones have been in use for over 15 years.
This is only the second year of the mass bee die-off. Nice guess, but no prize. Next theory…
"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." Samuel Adams
I wouldn't close that case just yet
Tesla did some work with radio frequencies and, during one experiment, no one was able to catch any fish off the coast near tesla's generator. The fish left those waters. All small animals in the area also left. The new incarnation of that research is H.A.A.R.P. Radio signal can be bounced off the ionoshpere to distort or enhance weather effects, as well as blanket a large area with mind-affecting frequencies. The Russians were caught using this technology on the U.S. embassy. Everyone in that building was suffering severe depression during the assault. Recent changes in GSM dual band and CDMA could account for the confusion that bees are experiencing now, as cell phones use radio signals to communicate. Look up Tesla's experiments and learn what's possible before you discount this theory. We can't (as Ron Paul says) just do whatever we want and not expect to have consequences.
I think...
...you are on the right track. HAARP in conjunction with Chemtrails are a very real concern for all of us, tin-foil hats or not.
oh where oh
where is my aluminum foil hat?
But...
In the last 3 years or so the cell phone signal has changed from TDMA to GSM. Ever put a GSM cell phone too close to a speaker? You get that nice morse code noise...That is new in the last few years. I'm not saying this is a cause but it's something to look into.
http://wvgazette.com/News...
This article is interesting