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Title: Honey Bee Die-off Alarms Beekeepers
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URL Source: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/ ... ry=animals&guid=20070205144500
Published: Feb 15, 2007
Author: Larry O'Hanlon
Post Date: 2007-02-15 20:57:42 by Jethro Tull
Keywords: None
Views: 832
Comments: 55

Honey Bee Die-off Alarms Beekeepers

Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News

Feb. 5, 2007 — Something is wiping out honey bees across North America and a team of researchers is rushing to find out what it is.

What’s being called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has now been seen in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Florida, Georgia and way out in California. Some bee keepers have lost up to 80 percent of their colonies to the mysterious disorder.

"Those are quite scary numbers," said Dennis vanEngelsdorp, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture’s lead apiarist. Whatever kills the bees targets adult workers which die outside the colony — with few adults left inside, either alive or dead. The disorder decimates the worker bee population in a matter of weeks.

Aside from making honey, honey bees are essential for the pollination of tens of million of dollars worth of cash crops all over the United States. That’s why almond growers of California, for instance, are taking notice and pledging funds to help identify and fight the honey bee disorder.

Among the possible culprits are a fungus, virus, or a variety of microbes and pesticides. No one knows just yet. On first inspection, the pattern of die-offs resembles something that has been seen in more isolated cases in Louisiana, Texas and Australia, vanEngelsdorp said.

"Right now our efforts are on collecting as many samples as possible," said vanEngelsdorp. Bees that are collected are carefully dissected and analyzed to see what might have killed them.

Other researchers are keeping track of the problem using Google Earth, as well as cutting edge hive-sniffing and eavesdropping technology to investigate the problem.


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Bees are like the salt in bread; you never really notice them until they’re missing. Albert Einstein put it bluntly, “No bees, no food for mankind. The bee is the basis for life on this earth.” Ninety percent of flowering plants and 40 percent of the foods we eat depend on pollinators — mostly honeybees. They pollinate $15 billion worth of agriculture annually in our country.

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#2. To: Jethro Tull (#0)

Bees are like the salt in bread; you never really notice them until they’re missing. Albert Einstein put it bluntly, “No bees, no food for mankind. The bee is the basis for life on this earth.”

i had no idea.

christine  posted on  2007-02-15   21:04:05 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: christine, Jethro Tull (#2) (Edited)

Feral bees have been nearly absent here for many years. They truck colonies for thousands of miles now and beekeepers have never been busier or more in demand.

The Jacobi and Tracheal mites are but two of the culprits that are wiping out honeybees.

My friend is building a farm for aquaculture (maybe for Tilapia) down state and he had several bee colonies on his property, and someone, presumably a nearby farmer sprayed them with Raid and left the empty cans strewn around the now dead colonies.

Can you believe that a DE farmer doesn't understand the crisis or that bees pollinate nearly everything? (The contribution of butterflies and birds is minimal, and wind is unreliable)

I guess some idiot doesn't understand and when he saw a few bees and figured out that a city slicker hobbyist farmer was raising them on his adjoining property he decided to kill them.

The fact that we never see feral hives or even the occasional bee in the clover in our yards should have been a clue....

About seven years ago I tried to explain to a co-worker that life as we know it will end without bees he said, "as long as I have my steaks I don't care about veggies!"

I didn't try to explain that alfalfa hay (to feed cows) is the largest forage crop in the US and the pollination fees were established in the 1950's....

And, because of CJD we may lose our cattle, elk and deer, and, let's not even talk about the long term effects of DU.

People are so clueless that they have no idea that our future is by no means a sure thing.

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2007-02-15   21:30:28 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: HOUNDDAWG (#10)

sad story and a sad state of ignorance and affairs

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