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- Here in Maine there have been tons of honey bees. In the last two summers we have had large swarms of them getting into our house by way of every nook and cranny. I am deathly allergic to them so this is a problem. I really do not believe the honey bees are a bad off as we are hearing. Maybe they just moved to another climate!
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- There is another side to the honeybee story. The beekeepers who actually "keep" bees--feeding them, wintering them, managing them appropriately, and knowing about this wild insect, are not having the problems outlined in the news story. I would guess that beekeepers having trouble keeping their bees are moving an insect that needs environmental stability to thrive. Our agricultural practices that do not allow bees to be left in fields and orchards because of spraying, cause some beekeepers to move their bees often. Every time they are moved a 25%+ loss can be expected. Often the moved hives are too far from the beekeeper to be checked and managed--bees do not do well under these conditions.
Are some beekeepers hoping that the government will step in like it did in the past and subsidize the industry? Are some beekeepers looking for a government subsidy so they can retire with big profits because they are tired of the hard work? I believe past government subsidies have caused millions of gallons of honey to be purchased by the government and stored while consumers used cheaper honey imported from foreign countries.
CBS should look into this story in more detail. Talk to beekeepers that are doing well with their bees! See what they have to say. Not all beekeepers tell the same story of loss--why?
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- How come the hard-working, useful honey bees die and the worthless,crappy deadly African bees propagate like rabbits? Anyone see the movie, Idiocracy? There''s an interesting parallel there.
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- The Bees are leaving for better jobs in India,over worked and under appreciated.The USA is producing lots of food ,we may be feeding the whole population of the Earth. Time to stop the big producers are selling pretty produce with out any taste , so a red pepper tastes the same as a cucumber etc.Time to start producing your own gardens and the time is ripe .Lots of honey Bees around here you can plant lots of plants that attract Bees and they will pollinate your garden or you may need to do it by hand .The value for your body to get out in the yard in make a garden is great, for the mind ,body and soul,it''s spring time, get out the shovel or whatever else,start gardening you''ll be happy you did.
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- Maybe the Dingoes ate your Bee Bees.
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- [What''''''''s killing the honeybees? The same thing that is killing the rest of us. Republicans.
(Posted by jcr103)
"Your hatred consumes you. Can''''t even post on an article abou honeybees without posting bigoted remarks towards Republicans ... How pathetic".]
[Posted by singinrick at 08:44 AM : Mar 08, 2008]
ohhh ... the irony.
hey rick, do you recognize this person(described below)?
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big7ot (b%u012Dg''%u0259t) Pronunciation Key
n. One who is strongly partial to one''s own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.
[French, from Old French.]
Word History: Bigots may have more in common with God than one might think. Legend has it that Rollo, the first duke of Normandy, refused to kiss the foot of the French king Charles III, uttering the phrase bi got, his borrowing of the assumed Old English equivalent of our expression by God. Although this story is almost surely apocryphal, it is true that bigot was used by the French as a term of abuse for the Normans, but not in a religious sense. Later, however, the word, or very possibly a homonym, was used abusively in French for the Beguines, members of a Roman Catholic lay sisterhood. From the 15th century on Old French bigot meant "an excessively devoted or hypocritical person." Bigot is first recorded in English in 1598 with the sense "a superstitious hypocrite." - Reply to this comment
- What''s killing the honeybees? The same thing that is killing the rest of us. Republicans.
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- If I was a bee, I''d sting shanev137. Morons deserve pain.
P.S. Then I would turn around and sting payasyougo.
8-) - Reply to this comment
- Colony Collapse Disorder appeared about the same time that the USEPA and the NDWRCDP began pushing the use of "aerobic" on-site wastewater treatment systems to replace conventional septic systems.
Aerobic on-site wastewater treatment systems are a breeding ground for every pathogen known to mankind.
Check it out.
The bees are just the beginning. - Reply to this comment
- WiFi.
WiFi is killing the bees. - Reply to this comment
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