Jan. 24, 2008

What's Wrong With The Bees?

Steve Kroft Reports On The Mysterious Disappearance Of Bees

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(CBS)  This segment was originally broadcast on Oct. 28, 2007. It was updated on Feb. 21, 2008.

If you want to grow fruits, vegetables or nuts in the United States on a commercial basis you have to have soil, sun, seeds, water, and honeybees -- millions and millions of honeybees brought in from all over the country to pollinate the crops. As correspondent Steve Kroft explains, honeybees are the unsung heroes of the food chain, crucial to the production of one third of the foods we eat. So when billions of bees began to mysteriously disappear last year, there was plenty of concern and no shortage of theories, blaming everything from cell phones to divine rapture. None of the usual explanations seemed to fit. Some of the nation's top scientists are trying to understand this phenomenon, but no one is more immersed in the mystery than the man who is widely credited with discovering it.



Lewisburg, Pa., has a population of 6,000 people and 88 million bees -- enough to sting every resident of New York, California, and Texas combined. The bees belong to David Hackenberg and his family, who have been keeping them for almost half a century.

"It's the most unique thing in nature there is. I mean you stick your head inside that beehive, and it's, you know, it's something about bees that just makes the rest of the world just seem to go away," Hackenberg says.

Hackenberg says he gets along with his bees "fine."

The bees make plenty of honey, but most of the money comes from loading 2,200 hives onto flatbed trucks and renting them to farmers all over the country. On the day we followed them, their services were desperately needed in Maine, where mile upon mile of wild blueberries were in bloom just waiting to be pollinated.

Thirty years ago, a good-sized blueberry farm was 500 acres; today, a large commercial operation can run to 10,000 acres and there are simply not enough honeybees in Maine to do the work. On average, Hackenberg and his bees log 60,000 miles a year on the road, wintering in Florida to work citrus and cantaloupe, then heading back north in the Spring for apples and cherries, maybe even to California for the almond crop. He's just a small part of an industry that pollinates 90 different crops worth an estimated $15 billion. And most people don't even know it exists.

"What happens when you pull into a gas station with a big flatbed of bees?" Kroft asks. "Are people nervous? People get scared?"

"Oh yeah, I mean, you get all of them things. I mean, you know, 'There's bees in that truck!' Most of the people in this country have no idea what it takes to put the food on their table," Hackenberg explains.

Hackenberg thinks bees are underappreciated. "Sometimes I think beekeepers are underappreciated," he adds, laughing.

The hours are long and the work strenuous. After a ten-hour drive to Maine, Hackenberg and his crew still had to unload the hives and position them in the fields. Even when he grabbed a few hours sleep in the cab of his truck, he wasn’t alone: most people would have trouble getting to sleep with a couple of dozen bees buzzing around, but Hackenberg never worries about getting stung.

"That's just part of the business, you know. It's like stopping for traffic lights in New York," he says.

He estimates he has been stung "thousands and thousands" of times. "I've had days where I might have had a hundred, 120 bee stings in one day," he tells Kroft.

Hackenberg says the body builds up immunity to the stings, while the uninitiated might end up in the hospital.

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by johnny343sc October 25, 2007 3:21 PM PDT
"THIS JUST IN... Honey at $80 a barrel due to disappearance of bees...

Still cheaper than oil!"

;)
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by jshmks October 25, 2007 4:55 PM PDT
So I guess I can kiss honeycombs cereal goodbye?

along with honey nut cheerios.. :''(
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by cs4466 October 25, 2007 5:40 PM PDT
Very serious problem. I hope they figure it out - the little guys work very hard for us, after all.
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by feelfree1 October 25, 2007 7:02 PM PDT

Just to clarify CBS,

Re: "Colony Collapse Jeopardizing Beekeepers"

If the bees disappear, they won''t be the only colonies to collapse. Will we invite a flood of Mexicans to come and pollenate our flowers for us?

Some researchers suspect cell phone proliferation as a cause for this phenomenon.

Others cite a possible link to the Franken-foods owned by argri-terrorist organizations like Monsanto.

Re: ""I think the problem is complicated," says Jeffrey Pettis, who is leading the efforts for the Department of Agriculture. "I don''t think it''s going to come down to a single factor. We''re not going to be able to pin all of these losses on either one factor or even maybe one combination of factors."

What an idiotic statement. Is it not possible to include an infinate number of factors into 1 combination?

Heckuva'' job!
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by finewoven October 25, 2007 8:20 PM PDT
"Most of the people in this country have no idea what it takes to put the food on their table."

Are we still talking about the bees, or is this another reference to illegal aliens working in the fields.
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by formrusmcsgt October 25, 2007 11:29 PM PDT
Wait ''till the RNC reads about it. It will then be attributed to al Qaeda.....
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by lawyertom1 October 25, 2007 11:43 PM PDT
It would appear, based on the best science, that the colony collapse syndrone started when the US allowed bees to be imported from Australia without the usual precautions. As a result, a least one, and possibly more, serious viruses made it through and are now destroying bee colonies nationwide. Once again, your government at work. We reduce the budgets of FDA, USDA, Customs, etc. etc., and we get contaminated food, contaminated toys, and bee viruses that impact entire major sectors of the agricultural segment of the economy. Once again, the philosophy of the far right proves to be idiotic when applied to the real world. Time to expand the capabilities of our guardians.
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by feelfree1 October 25, 2007 11:48 PM PDT

LawyerTom1,

Re: "we get contaminated food, contaminated toys, and bee viruses that impact entire major sectors of the agricultural segment of the economy"

Well, sure, if you want to put it that way...but we get a good deal on it!!! Cheap, cheap!!!

What the hell else are we going to buy with U.S. dollars?
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by vampire1288 October 26, 2007 2:40 AM PDT
like a lot of things doing ok till the goverment steps in..... in my opinion. the most scary words in the country... """ I''M FOM THE GOVERMENT AND I''M HERE TO HELP YOU""""
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by magoo2u1 October 26, 2007 3:47 PM PDT
"Most of the people in this country have no idea what it takes to put the food on their table."

Are we still talking about the bees, or is this another reference to illegal aliens working in the fields.

Uh, both. The average American is below average. Sad to say , but most americans can''t grow a flower or gut a chicken. And from the growth of the frozen food already cooked section at the grocer , they will soon be unable to cook. They lost the ability to reason on Aug 23rd 1988. It''s documented.
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by usaprophet October 28, 2007 7:31 PM PDT
I want to report a major fire, friends. CBS isn''t reporting it. Our Constitution is currently on fire. And it''s being burned in Congress. See H.R. 1955, a.k.a., Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. I couldn''t believe it. Apparently, activists with Web sites are really begining to anger the elite insofar as they are publically holding officials accountable for their evil. The bill passed the house on Oct 23, in spite of Congressman, Ron Paul''s opposition. The right to free speech on the Internet is gone, my friends. Look it up for yourself, and weep for your country as I have that our rights have eroded this far. Here''s a short excerpt from the bill''s DEFINITIONS statement: "The development and implementation of methods and processes that can be utilized to prevent violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence in the United States is critical to combating domestic terrorism." Here''s another excerpt from the bill''s FINDINGS statement: "The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens." And guess who get''s to decide what is "terrorist-related propaganda" is? You got it! The Department of Homeland Insecurity, an agency that''s answerable ONLY to The President. If Ron Paul isn''t elected, our country is doomed!
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by williethebee October 28, 2007 7:59 PM PDT
At Williethebeeman.com our buzziness double this year...some of the missing bees are ending up in your neighborhoods; in trees, soffits, walls of houses, fenches, barrels your back yard. Beekeepers do not want them back. They need new bees from bee farms.
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by mcvett October 28, 2007 8:57 PM PDT
Maybe the dingoes ate your beebees

LOL
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by watch23 October 28, 2007 9:12 PM PDT
Is this die-off related to the mixing of the two spieces, Austrailian and European Honey Bees much like the mixing of the two species in South Africa?
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by nannygoat7 October 28, 2007 10:29 PM PDT
If the mixture that farmers are using to control bugs/worms, etc. on their crops could be the cause of what is ailing the bees why can''t the farmers find the bug they need to eat the bug that is destroying their crops? I mean is this not the recycling way to do it all? The bees help so many things and I would think in our eco system that there is another type of insect that could be raised and set loose on the farmers fields that would eat whatever is bringing harm to their crops and quit using this poisonious stuff !!!!! You know like many a crop of grasshoppers would eat the worms that are eating the corn????
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by midea1 October 28, 2007 10:51 PM PDT
Maybe the bees are lacking vitamin B1 (thiamin) like the Salmon and the Aligators both species are experiencing difficulty navigating and with balance.
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by chucklundin October 28, 2007 11:10 PM PDT
If the bees are sick and the sickness is being passed in their honey, is that entering into our food chain? How do we know? Who can we trust to tell us?
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by johnnycruz2 October 29, 2007 1:15 AM PDT
I have a boat in San Diego, Ca and I''ve noticed something lately that I hope will shed some light on this issue. I''ve noticed a LOT more bees by my boat, and I''ve even noticed bee''s traveling over the ocean from downtown San Diego across the water (about a half a mile wide) to Coronado. I''ve never seen this before and the bee''s appear drunk. I call them "drunken bees." I''ve been in this marina for 10 years and have just recently noticed this. I wonder if this change might tell us something?
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by johnnycruz2 October 29, 2007 1:16 AM PDT
I have a boat in San Diego, Ca and I''ve noticed something lately that I hope will shed some light on this issue. I''ve noticed a LOT more bees by my boat, and I''ve even noticed bee''s traveling over the ocean from downtown San Diego across the water (about a half a mile wide) to Coronado. I''ve never seen this before and the bee''s appear drunk. I call them "drunken bees." I''ve been in this marina for 10 years and have just recently noticed this. I wonder if this change might tell us something?
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by johnnycruz2 October 29, 2007 1:18 AM PDT
I have a boat in San Diego, Ca and I''ve noticed something lately that I hope will shed some light on this issue. I''ve noticed a LOT more bees by my boat, and I''ve even noticed bee''s traveling over the ocean from downtown San Diego across the water (about a half a mile wide) to Coronado. I''ve never seen this before and the bee''s appear drunk. I call them "drunken bees." I''ve been in this marina for 10 years and have just recently noticed this. I wonder if this change might tell us something?
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by rudy654-2009 October 29, 2007 1:34 AM PDT
Posted by nannygoat7 at 10:29 PM

I wonder if what you have said about pesticides isn''t the real culprit. For example, in a fields around my house, I watch them first spread something in the ground to find fungus. Then when the plants begin to sprout, they spray at different times pesticides, as well as herbicides. Then, using the sprinkler system, they spread some kind of sulfur fertilizer on the ground, which is the most disgusting thing I have ever had to smell. Finally, after all this when it comes time to harvest the crop (potatoes), they kill the top plant with herbicide so as to make the harvest easier. I''ll tell you, farming has got so much krapp being sprayed on plants, you really have to wonder how it is affecting us and the environment. What is happening to bees should be a warning.
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by johnnycruz2 October 29, 2007 1:46 AM PDT
I have a boat in San Diego, Ca and I''ve noticed something lately that I hope will shed some light on this issue. I''ve noticed a LOT more bees by my boat, and I''ve even noticed bee''s traveling over the ocean from downtown San Diego across the water (about a half a mile wide) to Coronado. I''ve never seen this before and the bee''s appear drunk. I call them "drunken bees." I''ve been in this marina for 10 years and have just recently noticed this. I wonder if this change might tell us something?
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by brianbwb-2009 October 29, 2007 2:07 AM PDT
The bees knew of the impending destruction of the planet, and were preparing to leave on their own. Their attempts to warn us were misinterpreted as flower finding dances, but what they were really saying was this: "so long, and thanks for all the flowers".
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by grammawhamma October 29, 2007 2:29 AM PDT
I don''t believe in using anything that ends in "cide" in my house or on my property. I know farmers are in the business to produce so they use what they must to get the most. The town near mine is surrounded by potato fields and per capita they have one of the highest cancer rates in the country. I do think the bees are being poisoned.
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by grammawhamma October 29, 2007 2:32 AM PDT
johnnycruz2: I think your observations are interesting and might be helpful in solving the bee mystery. I think you should contact an agricultural college near you and ask where you could report your observation.
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by grammawhamma October 29, 2007 2:34 AM PDT
Maybe the dingoes ate your beebees

LOL


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Posted by MCVett at 08:57 PM : Oct 28, 2007

I know this isn''t a laughing matter....but geez your comment made me laugh!!
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by x-woody-x October 29, 2007 5:04 AM PDT
"The hive was also filled with honey that not even scavengers seemed to want."

Has this honey been analyzed and tested for contaminants? If one were to take some of this honey and put it into a healthy hive, would the bees avoid it? Is this honey being sold anyway? I had honey at breakfast this morning.
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by landlady3 October 29, 2007 5:06 AM PDT
I am a 75 year old female, we owned 17 Kelly Bee Hives on our farm. This is a very serious situation and we must take a close look. The culture of the bee will double it''s population each and every year.
How many cultures do this?? Each spring when bees swarm, it is the older of the two that go. Leaving the younger in the hive. Your report spoke not a word about how you manage and retreve the new swarms each year or how you care for the "Queen" She is the HEART of the hive. The worker and drone exist only for her, there can be only "one Queen." If she dies, the others leave, when swarming and she is killed the others go back to the hive. That is how you strengthen your hive, if need be. I dislike the idea of "shipping" hives cross country, however necessary. I am suprised the bee tolerates this. I suggest the farmer purchase a supply of KELLY hives
and place them all around the property and let the bee do the work. Be sure and buy plenty of extra ones, including the Stack-able caps where the hive will produce Honey in the 1 pound "square" really-1 # each] and
the population will double yearly. But please, hire people to retreve all new swarms and care for your hives. Stop seeing the bee as a slave and let it do what it loves doing, and that "Queen" will keep you in millions of bees forever. AND FOR GOD''S SAKE, LET UP ON THE PESTICIDES. If man destrories the bee, you can forget about "Global Warming"

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by Krazcarl October 29, 2007 7:48 AM PDT
Hate this love honey bees are our friends abd withiut then argriculture is in big trouble. Had a friend with a apple orchard put a hive in crops 3 fold. An interesting fact they found honey in the tombs of giza and it was still edable we can''t do that. This is important we need to find the cure period,
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by laurentyak October 29, 2007 8:28 AM PDT
Einstein said that the day the bees disappear, human days are counted...
Some chemical indutries have played with nature...and nature doesn''t enjoy these games ...
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by okinup October 29, 2007 10:20 AM PDT
You never really needed pesticides. Every parasite has its natural enemy. Mosquitoes got minnows and dragonflies. Rats and mice got cats. Cockroaches got lizards. Everything has their own natural enemy. The pesticide industry is worse than China when it comes to not knowing and not caring what they put in their products.

Chemical dependency breaks down the immune system, little by little. Without our natural immunities people will die from the common cold. Be dirty, folks.. It can save yer life.
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by safelawns October 29, 2007 10:27 AM PDT
If you visit www.SafeLawns.org, you will see an article that explains the Colony Collapse Disorder in great detail.
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by cynthiacr1 October 29, 2007 10:31 AM PDT
While a number of things can sicken or kill bees and the honey they make be tainted by whatever chemicals used locally ~ the question isn''t "What''s killing the bees?". There aren''t any corpses.

The question is "Where Have the Bees Gone?".

Unusual numbers are being found above the altitude one would normally expect ~ circling communication towers as reported by a few courageous crewmen that work on the mountaintops in the southwest.

I imagine if bees do this long enough, they die, and their little bodies are scattered to the winds, never to be found. The solution may simply involve changing the transmitting frequency out of what appears to be the 1800 to 2000 range & refitting receiving devices. Unfortunately that would involve large companies, government bodies, and a yet another cell phone scare. $$$. We seem to have the Midas Touch here.

I can''t remember how many years it took (15 or more?) to prove what was killing the dolphins before it was admitted to be a consequence of our sonar & undersea military practice. We''re dealing with very much the same principle. We don''t have that long this time to skirt the evidence, as we are endangering the world food supply.

And no, I''m a common sense farm lady ~ (to my knowledge, I''ve never been abducted by aliens :) And this latest bit of diversion-science has gotten me worried enough to make my first post to any "blog".

Next, my congressman; sigh.
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by okinup October 29, 2007 10:35 AM PDT
Well, the cellphone industry uses microwaves. Its possible that microwaves are effecting the bees, and other creatures too.
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by okinup October 29, 2007 10:36 AM PDT
Maybe the bees are getting brain cancer.
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by ssashworth October 29, 2007 10:49 AM PDT
Just as we shouldn''t be putting High Fructose Corn Syrup into our bodies, we shouldn''t be putting it into the bodies of our bees. Commercial beekeepers use HFCS to make sugar water (food supplement) because it''s cheaper. A quick, measurable, and replicable test would be to immediately ban HFCS in all apiculture. Don''t delay, do it today!
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by cynthiacr1 October 29, 2007 10:59 AM PDT
"Maybe the bees are getting brain cancer. "

Yup, {{{okinup}}}, that''s probably it. And then swarming up above the No Bugs Anymore Zone on a mountaintop, which is somewhere around the 60 foot high mark ~ to uhmm, hug the 200-300 foot high tower? A last goodbye to their surrogate Queen?
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by mcvett October 29, 2007 12:18 PM PDT
Maybe the dingoes ate your beebees

LOL
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by johnnycruz2 October 29, 2007 1:13 PM PDT
I have a boat in San Diego, Ca and I''ve noticed something lately that I hope will shed some light on this issue. I''ve noticed a LOT more bees by my boat, and I''ve even noticed bee''s traveling over the ocean from downtown San Diego across the water (about a half a mile wide) to Coronado. I''ve never seen this before and the bee''s appear drunk. I call them "drunken bees." I''ve been in this marina for 10 years and have just recently noticed this. I wonder if this change might tell us something?
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by blackcathone October 29, 2007 1:20 PM PDT
That was one of the best stories I have seen on CCD. The issues in France, tho you misses Prince Edward ISland.. an dthe only thing I wish you would have added was about bee genetics. Most beekeepers have been line breeding for years and some don''t even realize it. Line breeding is incest and while they are a bug with a stinger, the issues it creats are the same. No good dog breeder or cat breeder, or horse/cow and so on would do that.. but beekeepers do and seldom think about it of keep track of it. Also, on the moving of hives by truck, 1/4 to 1/2 dies on the trip.. if that was dogs, cows, chickens.. PETA would be all ove them..
Richard Owner Black Cat Honey
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by cynthiacr1 October 29, 2007 1:36 PM PDT
My firsthand information came from a crew member in Orange County, California, johnnycruz, who also told me of a huge problem he heard of in the Blythe & El Centro area. Something about one of the companies hiring a firm to get rid of the bees 2x a week so they can work on their equipment. (I''m in Wisconsin where the bees vanished without a trace, completely vanished including the queen, I believe, a year ago from the Redemptorist Retreat Center where one of the Brothers there, near I-94 & Hwy C in Waukesha County, always sold the honey from the bees he''s been raising as a hobby for years.
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by ganondagon October 29, 2007 1:40 PM PDT
I am very alarmed with regard to the bee story. Common sense should alarm us that the pesticide described is the culpret. At least ban it for 2-3 years and give the bees a chance to have a normal life for all of us !!
Please, do let this subject drop out of sight.
Pat
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by bcbbkake October 29, 2007 1:42 PM PDT
As posted by AMGOO2U1: "The average American is below average. Sad to say, but most americans can''t grow a flower or gut a chicken. And from the growth of the frozen food already cooked section at the grocer, they will soon be unable to cook. They lost the ability to reason on Aug 23rd 1988. It''s documented."

Although this has nothing to do with bees, it is a grave statement about people. I remember my grandma had a tiny garden in her backyard in the city. That itty-bitty plot of land produced more fruits and vegetables than I thought possible. She canned everything! And it was good! In just two short generations we have lost it. We have become so dependent on processed and pre-cooked foods that we can''t currently survive any other way. And it''s killing us. My advice to us all, stock up on those (toxic) canned foods now, and start researching on how to do-it-yourself. Big Brother is not going to save us...he is too busy monitoring our boring phone conversations to look up and see that soon there won''t be anything to monitor.
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by random_radar October 29, 2007 1:53 PM PDT
"Common sense should alarm us that the pesticide described is the culpret. At least ban it for 2-3 years and give the bees a chance to have a normal life for all of us !!"

I will wait for scientific research rather than listen to your common sense. Common sense was the basis for the dark ages and believing the world is flat. We have brains and we ought to use them to figure out the truth rather than react based upon prejudice and emotion.
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by brassy2 October 29, 2007 2:44 PM PDT
How obvious is this: Create a synthetic pesticed containing nicotene! Gee if large amounts of that can KILL a human being...it sure makes sense as to what it can do to a small bee.
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by extremophil October 29, 2007 2:54 PM PDT
I''m not worried. We''ll all die from bird flu, or global warming, or terrorists, or whatEVER, before the buzz kills us.
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by photogeezer October 29, 2007 3:11 PM PDT
When the EPA convened a scientific conference on Atrazine, a herbicide believed to account for genetic defects in frogs, I saw a memo citing "white House interest" in the matter. It seems the pesticide manufacturers whine to the White House to try to get them exempt from regulation. The EPA response, probably an honest one, was that they had to have more data or they couldn''t draw any conclusions. This data-gathering depends on university and regulatory agency budgets. Draw your own conclusions.
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by laurelhopwoo October 29, 2007 3:27 PM PDT
There''s a link that''s not being properly investigated. Beekeepers have raised the issue of what is "time based." In the past 2 years, Monsanto, Syngenta and Bayer have acquired patents to coat some of their conventional and genetically engineered crops with neonicotoinoid pesticides. Although the release of the neonicotiniod class of pesticides isn''t new, what is new is this "coating." There haven''t been sufficient studies to examine the effects of these newly released crops, which leave residues in the pollen and soil, as a cause or contributor to the development and spread of CCD.

This past decade we are seeing releases into the environment that we have never before seen on this planet. Genetic engineering involves the artificial transfer of genes from one organism into another, bypassing the protective barrier between species. Scientists admit that unintended consequences may occur due to the lack of precision and specificity in the DNA sites on different plant chromosomes where the inserted genes randomly end up. According to the prominent biologist Dr. Barry Commoner, "Genetically engineered crops represent a huge uncontrolled experiment whose outcome is inherently unpredictable. The results could be catastrophic."

Please contact me for more info.
Laurel Hopwood, Chair, Sierra Club Genetic Engineering Committee
lhopwood@roadrunner.com
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by rf36 October 29, 2007 5:27 PM PDT
With the environment changing (global warming, climate change, whatever you want to call it), it makes sense that the insects would be one of the first forms of life to react. Generally, the smaller the animal, the more sensitive it is to its environment. This is just the first sign of the massive environmental catastrophes that are in store for us. We''ve already killed the planet...now it''s time to sit back and watch the carnage escalate.
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by dannesilva October 29, 2007 5:54 PM PDT
I''d like to know what individuals can do to stop or slow the demise of the honey bee. Where do we write and who do we call to implement changes? I do not have a science background but I would like to help. Please, someone point me in the right direction.
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