no honeybees in my yard this year
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Posted 22 March 2007 - 12:15 AM
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Posted 22 March 2007 - 01:34 AM
Edited by beta, 22 March 2007 - 01:35 AM.
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Posted 22 March 2007 - 03:42 AM
Have you seen the news stories regarding the disappearance of honeybees across the US this winter/spring? I was waiting to see what would occur as our fruit trees blossomed here. Guess what? There are no honeybees around. I have never seen this before! If this plays out, there will be a major shortfall in many food crops this year...and the future?
Yes, here in Los Angeles I got an early start on tomatoes this year. Beautiful, 4 foot tall plants with lots of blossoms but NO bees! I don't even see the usual wasp or wood bees. I'm afraid that maybe the effort to eliminate the African bees back fried!
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Posted 22 March 2007 - 05:58 AM
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Posted 22 March 2007 - 08:21 AM
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Posted 22 March 2007 - 08:32 AM
Edited by snorkels4, 22 March 2007 - 08:35 AM.
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Posted 22 March 2007 - 08:37 AM
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Posted 22 March 2007 - 09:41 AM
By Michael Leidig in Vienna
Last Updated: 2:20am GMT 14/03/2007
A mysterious condition that has wiped half of the honey bee population the United States over the last 35 years appears to be repeating itself in Europe.
Experts are at a loss to explain the fall in honey bee populations in America, with fears of that a new disease, the effects of pollution or the increased use of pesticides could be to blame for "colony collapse disorder". From 1971 to 2006 approximately one half of the US honey bee colonies have vanished.
Now in Spain, hundreds of thousands of colonies have been lost and beekeepers in northern Croatia estimated that five million bees had died in just 48 hours this week. In Poland, the Swietokrzyskie beekeeper association has estimated that up to 40 per cent of bees were wiped out last year. Greece, Switzerland, Italy and Portugal have also reported heavy losses.
"If it turns out to be a disease we will probably find a cure. But if it turns out to be something different, like environmental pollution, then I do not know what can be done.
"At the moment, all we know is colonies are dying and we simply don't know why. It could be a new disease or a combination of factors. And of course it could turn out what we are seeing here in Europe is different to what has been reported in America, although at the moment they look very, very similar."
Initial studies of dying colonies in America revealed a large number of disease organisms present, with no one disease being identified as the culprit, van Engelsdorp added.
BIGGEST SCIENCE SCANDAL EVER...Official records systematically 'adjusted'.
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Posted 22 March 2007 - 11:18 AM