Honey Bees Disappearing - Beekeeping Driving Profits

[christopher99]

We all know that several species are disappearing every day. As per the reports, for every 20 minutes, one specie is disappearing. Bees are also in the queue! Now a days, we’ve been facing lots of food problems globally. To overcome this problem, most of the people are growing some alternative like hydroponics and aquaponics. These are the fastest growing trends these days. In the same way, beekeeping, also known as apiculture, is growing rapidly in United States and around the world as well.

 

As per the statistics, beekeeping makes up about 40 percent of honey production in the U.S. Now it is competing with Melbourne. Experts are giving guidance about how to use systems and supplies in apiculture farming as it is very sensitive business.

 

The interesting point here is you can grow apiculture in your outdoor garden with the existing ecosystems.

[Chewbalka]

I saw a documentary about this! Its true i barely see honey bees anymore. Next year when i move i plan on signing up for one in my yard. Hopefully its an option here in my home town!

[labelwench]

Northern gardeners here in the Yukon have been observing a decline in bees for several years now and we are definitely mystified and concerned because these insects are invaluable to the ecosystem. :(

[Knothead]

Lest I bee called a conspiracy theorist, let me state right away that I don't know how much truth there is to the idea that Monsanto and Bayer may be responsible for Colony collapse disorder (CCD). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_collapse_disorder, but there is a lot of speculation about it. http://ecosia.org/search.php?q=monsanto+bayer+bees&addon=opensearch

 

Multiple possible causes of CCD have been identified. In 2007, some authorities attributed the problem to biotic factors such as Varroa mites and insect diseases (i.e., pathogens[5] including Nosema apis and Israel acute paralysis virus).[6][7] Other proposed causes include environmental change-related stresses,[8] malnutrition, pesticides (e.g.. neonicotinoids such as clothianidin and imidacloprid[9][10][11]), and migratory beekeeping. More speculative possibilities have included both cell phone radiation[12][13] and genetically modified (GM) crops with pest control characteristics.[14][15]

 

 

[Knothead]

If half of the allegations in this documentary are true. Then we live is very scary times indeed. :o

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ0Drb0oZwc&feature=player_embedded

[Michaelangelica]

If states, like Florida, use a small air-force to blanket spray for mosquitoes, what do you expect?

http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=7537

 

Here are some of the areas currently, or soon to be spraying insecticides intended to kill adult mosquitos via airplane:

 

• An article in the Sacramento Pressexplains that California’s Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito Vector Control District (SYMVCD) proposed spraying 30,000 acres with highly toxicorganophosphate

• The Sun Sentinel reports that Palm Beach County, Florida has begun spraying a proposed 270,000 acres with mosquito adulticides

etc etc etc

 

 

 

http://www.epa.gov/o...ks/honeybee.htm

 

 

Use of Common Pesticide Linked to Bee Colony Collapse

For immediate release: Thursday, April 5, 2012

 

Boston, MA – The likely culprit in sharp worldwide declines in honeybee colonies since 2006 is imidacloprid, one of the most widely used pesticides, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).

 

The authors, led by Chensheng (Alex) Lu, associate professor of environmental exposure biology in the Department of Environmental Health, write that the new research provides “convincing evidence” of the link between imidacloprid and the phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), in which adult bees abandon their hives.

 

The study will appear in the June issue of the Bulletin of Insectology.http://www.hsph.harv...-pesticide.html

BTW "worldwide" is an exaggeration The US bee industry is being kept afloat by queens being sent to US by Australia

Edited October 24, 2012 by Michaelangelica

[Knothead]

Vandana Shiva

 

the Cargill head for Asia Pacific flies into India,

holds a press conference,

and says how stupid Indian farmers are

because they don't realize Cargill with its intelligence is creating seeds

which prevent the bees from usurping the pollen.

This wonderful act of creating fertility through pollination

is now redefined as theft in a mindset where life should be owned as a monopoly.

No plant should be grown without permission from the companies,

no seed should renew without permission of the company,

and of course no farmer should ever regrow a crop without paying a royalty.

 

 

 

 

(I wish I could figure out, once and for all, how to attach a damn video. What works one time doesn't work the next. What works on one forum doesn't work on another! And what pisses me off is that I know it's my own ignorance that is the problem! Arrrrrrrrgh).

Edited October 24, 2012 by Knothead

[labelwench]

 

http://www.google.ca...9QEwCA&dur=2520

 

Hello Knothead. For the above, I loaded an image of Vandana Shiva using the 'insert image' icon. I posted the link for the photo credit below this. To insert the video into the photo, I copied the link to the Youtube video, left-clicked on the photo, selected the 'insert link' icon (looks like two links of chain) and posted my clipboard content. Clicking on the image takes you to the Youtube video.

 

I work in Firefox browser most of the time and one forum I am on, I have to go to IE to post images or videos. There may be an easier way on this forum but that is the work-around I utilize. I am so not a tech person, lol. Perhaps another will jump in and give some pointers for both of us.

[Michaelangelica]

What Is Monsanto Doing To Our Bees?

Posted by Maryam Henein on February 3, 2012

 

Bees love Maryam

 

There was quite a stir among beekeepers and anti-GMO activists last fall when chemical and seed giant Monsanto purchased Beeologics, a small company best known for its “groundbreaking research” applying RNAi technology to honeybees, a process that blocks gene expression. This was Monsanto’s first acquisition of a pest control biotech company.

 

Since its inception in 2007, Beeologics has been developing Remebee®, an anti-viral treatment for use in honeybees affected with Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV), a bee-specific virus which originated from Australia and was found and named in Israel in 2002.

 

http://www.disinfo.c...ng-to-our-bees/

 

Interesting -if heavy going- video on RNA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cK-OGB1_ELE

Edited January 14, 2013 by Michaelangelica