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2.15.2007
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070212/ap_on_sc/dying_bees_8
Brian,
this is info for dd5101 your date of 2/13/07
This is dated February 11th, 07. This came out before your dream or that
is where the date comes from.
Curezone.com, under news has all the bee articles.
God Bless,
Sherry
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Hi, yes, actually I saw something like this on Discover Channel a few weeks ago, more than likely this is why I had this dream...as I usually do not dream about bees...and thanks for this, will post it.
Brian
2.15.2007
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Mystery ailment strikes honeybees By GENARO C. ARMAS, Associated Press Writer
Sun Feb 11, 11:17 PM ET
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - A mysterious illness is killing tens of thousands of honeybee colonies across the country, threatening honey production, the livelihood of beekeepers and possibly crops that need bees for pollination.
Researchers are scrambling to find the cause of the ailment, called Colony Collapse Disorder.
Reports of unusual colony deaths have come from at least 22 states. Some affected commercial beekeepers — who often keep thousands of colonies — have reported losing more than 50 percent of their bees. A colony can have roughly 20,000 bees in the winter, and up to 60,000 in the summer.
"We have seen a lot of things happen in 40 years, but this is the epitome of it all," Dave Hackenberg, of Lewisburg-based Hackenberg Apiaries, said by phone from Fort Meade, Fla., where he was working with his bees.
The country's bee population had already been shocked in recent years by a tiny, parasitic bug called the varroa mite, which has destroyed more than half of some beekeepers' hives and devastated most wild honeybee populations.
Along with being producers of honey, commercial bee colonies are important to agriculture as pollinators, along with some birds, bats and other insects. A recent report by the National Research Council noted that in order to bear fruit, three-quarters of all flowering plants — including most food crops and some that provide fiber, drugs and fuel — rely on pollinators for fertilization.
Hackenberg, 58, was first to report Colony Collapse Disorder to bee researchers at Penn State University. He notified them in November when he was down to about 1,000 colonies — after having started the fall with 2,900.
"We are going to take bees we got and make more bees ... but it's costly," he said. "We are talking about major bucks. You can only take so many blows so many times."
One beekeeper who traveled with two truckloads of bees to California to help pollinate almond trees found nearly all of his bees dead upon arrival, said Dennis vanEnglesdorp, acting state apiarist for the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.
"I would characterize it as serious," said Daniel Weaver, president of the American Beekeeping Federation. "Whether it threatens the apiculture industry in the United States or not, that's up in the air."
Scientists at Penn State, the University of Montana and the U.S. Department of Agriculture are among the quickly growing group of researchers and industry officials trying to solve the mystery.
Among the clues being assembled by researchers:
• Although the bodies of dead bees often are littered around a hive, sometimes carried out of the hive by worker bees, no bee remains are typically found around colonies struck by the mystery ailment. Scientists assume these bees have flown away from the hive before dying.
• From the outside, a stricken colony may appear normal, with bees leaving and entering. But when beekeepers look inside the hive box, they find few mature bees taking care of the younger, developing bees.
• Normally, a weakened bee colony would be immediately overrun by bees from other colonies or by pests going after the hive's honey. That's not the case with the stricken colonies, which might not be touched for at least two weeks, said Diana Cox-Foster, a Penn State entomology professor investigating the problem.
"That is a real abnormality," Hackenberg said.
Cox-Foster said an analysis of dissected bees turned up an alarmingly high number of foreign fungi, bacteria and other organisms and weakened immune systems.
Researchers are also looking into the effect pesticides might be having on bees.
In the meantime, beekeepers are wondering if bee deaths over the last couple of years that had been blamed on mites or poor management might actually have resulted from the mystery ailment.
"Now people think that they may have had this three or four years," vanEnglesdorp said.
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On the Net:
Mid-Atlantic Apiculture: http://maarec.cas.psu.edu/index.html
Penn State University Entomology Dept.: http://www.ento.psu.edu/
American Beekeeping Federation: http://www.abfnet.org/
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2.18.2007
Brian:
This is an issue which could have disastrous consequences. I presented your information to scientists within the community. The response I received was to this effect:
“.......can accept it if presented as "visionary
information" that may guide us to solutions. It is all in how it is
presented. It is still important to separate what we know, what we
think we know, what we don't know, and what we have intuition about
that remains to be discovered.”
Could you provide a follow-up to DD5100 in this context which I will then forward to this community?
Thanx!
Jerry
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Hi Jerry, not sure what they are saying, but would be glad to help.
Brian
2.18.2007
Last night on Coasttocoastam.com, George Noory
interviewed a bee expert. Many scientists are
studying the problem. A die-off of bees has
occurred in the past.
I noticed the word, "wood," on both DD's. Wonder
if that has something to do with it.
Since the die-off is occurring in different parts of the
U.S., it seems that some kind of chemical has to
be used that is the same in all areas.
Bees are so cool.
Chuck in Spokane
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Hi, thanks for this information, and it could... and I love bees :)
Brian
2.18.2007
http://www.heraldnewsdaily.com/ViewArticle.aspx?id=63184&source=2
http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/543054.html
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Thanks, links posted.
Brian
2.18.2007
2.18.2007
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Thanks, posted.
Brian
2.18.2007
Honeybees - this is undoubtedly CANOLA - genetically modified.
Milson
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Hi Milson, can you explain more on this?
Brian
2.20.2007
If you read up about the dangers of genetically modified seeds or foods you will realise how deadly it is. Almost all CANOLA seeds fall into this category and they spread quickly to neighbouring farms, so that little is left of the natural, organic seeds. This has been well recognised as a problem in the Canadian Prairies, but the spread is supported by the agri-chemical industry. It is part of the World Depopulation plan, which I published on the internet some years ago.
So if animals ingest it they will undoubtedly have the same problems.
Have not seen any articles on this yet but this is my best guess.
Milson
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Hi, and I agree...anything that we do that is not natural poses risks, and these is no way to accurately test what effects modified food can do without long term studies (ie 50 + years)
Brian
2.26.2007
Here is another related report:Flowers disappear alongside wild bees
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=qw1153430462829B251
It is not clear which started to disappear first, the bees or the flowers, but the trend could affect both crops and wild species, the researchers report in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
"We were shocked by decline in plants as well as bees. If this pattern is replicated elsewhere, the 'pollinator services' we take for granted could be at risk," Dr Koos Biesmeijer of the
"And with it the future for the plants we enjoy in our countryside."
Biesmeijer and colleagues looked at species surveys from hundreds of sites and found that bee diversity has fallen in 80 percent of them since 1980. They said many bee species are declining or have become extinct in
The number of different species of pollination-dependent wildflowers has declined by 70 percent.
"In
"We looked at plant changes as an afterthought, and were surprised to see how strong the trends were," added Bill Kunin of the
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Thanks, story posted.
Brian
3.13.2007
Hey Brian-- I just read in today's New York Times, the business section that honeybees have inexpicibly disappeared from 22 states. Experts are baffled. Just google the keywords, there was no way I could forward the article because I'm no good at computer stuff. Christy
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Hi, thanks, yes I have been working on this with people concerned about this matter.
Brian
3.13.2007
Hi Brian,
I am new to your site and wanted to send you a link to an article that fits
in closely on something you wrote about honeybees:
http://www.11alive.com/news/article_news.aspx?storyid=92893&provider=top
Keep up the good work!!
Belinda
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Hi Belinda, thanks and will post this.
Brian
3.29.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0%2C1518%2Cdruck-473166%2C00.html
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Thanks, posted.
Brian
By Gunther Latsch
A mysterious decimation of bee populations has German beekeepers worried, while a similar phenomenon in the United States is gradually assuming catastrophic proportions. The consequences for agriculture and the economy could be enormous.
Is the mysterous decimation of bee populations in the US and Germany a result of GM crops?
The problem, says Haefeker, has a number of causes, one being the varroa mite, introduced from Asia, and another is the widespread practice in agriculture of spraying wildflowers with herbicides and practicing monoculture. Another possible cause, according to Haefeker, is the controversial and growing use of genetic engineering in agriculture.
As far back as 2005, Haefeker ended an article he contributed to the journal Der Kritischer Agrarbericht (Critical Agricultural Report) with an Albert Einstein quote: "If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man."
Mysterious events in recent months have suddenly made Einstein's apocalyptic vision seem all the more topical. For unknown reasons, bee populations throughout Germany are disappearing -- something that is so far only harming beekeepers. But the situation is different in the United States, where bees are dying in such dramatic numbers that the economic consequences could soon be dire. No one knows what is causing the bees to perish, but some experts believe that the large-scale use of genetically modified plants in the US could be a factor.
Felix Kriechbaum, an official with a regional beekeepers' association in Bavaria, recently reported a decline of almost 12 percent in local bee populations. When "bee populations disappear without a trace," says Kriechbaum, it is difficult to investigate the causes, because "most bees don't die in the beehive." There are many diseases that can cause bees to lose their sense of orientation so they can no longer find their way back to their hives.
Manfred Hederer, the president of the German Beekeepers Association, almost simultaneously reported a 25 percent drop in bee populations throughout Germany. In isolated cases, says Hederer, declines of up to 80 percent have been reported. He speculates that "a particular toxin, some agent with which we are not familiar," is killing the bees.
Politicians, until now, have shown little concern for such warnings or the woes of beekeepers. Although apiarists have been given a chance to make their case -- for example in the run-up to the German cabinet's approval of a genetic engineering policy document by Minister of Agriculture Horst Seehofer in February -- their complaints are still largely ignored.
Even when beekeepers actually go to court, as they recently did in a joint effort with the German chapter of the organic farming organization Demeter International and other groups to oppose the use of genetically modified corn plants, they can only dream of the sort of media attention environmental organizations like Greenpeace attract with their protests at test sites.
But that could soon change. Since last November, the US has seen a decline in bee populations so dramatic that it eclipses all previous incidences of mass mortality. Beekeepers on the east coast of the United States complain that they have lost more than 70 percent of their stock since late last year, while the west coast has seen a decline of up to 60 percent.
In an article in its business section in late February, the New York Times calculated the damage US agriculture would suffer if bees died out. Experts at Cornell University in upstate New York have estimated the value bees generate -- by pollinating fruit and vegetable plants, almond trees and animal feed like clover -- at more than $14 billion.
Scientists call the mysterious phenomenon "Colony Collapse Disorder" (CCD), and it is fast turning into a national catastrophe of sorts. A number of universities and government agencies have formed a "CCD Working Group" to search for the causes of the calamity, but have so far come up empty-handed. But, like Dennis vanEngelsdorp, an apiarist with the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, they are already referring to the problem as a potential "AIDS for the bee industry."
One thing is certain: Millions of bees have simply vanished. In most cases, all that's left in the hives are the doomed offspring. But dead bees are nowhere to be found -- neither in nor anywhere close to the hives. Diana Cox-Foster, a member of the CCD Working Group, told The Independent that researchers were "extremely alarmed," adding that the crisis "has the potential to devastate the US beekeeping industry."
It is particularly worrisome, she said, that the bees' death is accompanied by a set of symptoms "which does not seem to match anything in the literature."
In many cases, scientists have found evidence of almost all known bee viruses in the few surviving bees found in the hives after most have disappeared. Some had five or six infections at the same time and were infested with fungi -- a sign, experts say, that the insects' immune system may have collapsed.
The scientists are also surprised that bees and other insects usually leave the abandoned hives untouched. Nearby bee populations or parasites would normally raid the honey and pollen stores of colonies that have died for other reasons, such as excessive winter cold. "This suggests that there is something toxic in the colony itself which is repelling them," says Cox-Foster.
Walter Haefeker, the German beekeeping official, speculates that "besides a number of other factors," the fact that genetically modified, insect-resistant plants are now used in 40 percent of cornfields in the United States could be playing a role. The figure is much lower in Germany -- only 0.06 percent -- and most of that occurs in the eastern states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg. Haefeker recently sent a researcher at the CCD Working Group some data from a bee study that he has long felt shows a possible connection between genetic engineering and diseases in bees.
According to Hans-Hinrich Kaatz, a professor at the University of Halle in eastern Germany and the director of the study, the bacterial toxin in the genetically modified corn may have "altered the surface of the bee's intestines, sufficiently weakening the bees to allow the parasites to gain entry -- or perhaps it was the other way around. We don't know."
Of course, the concentration of the toxin was ten times higher in the experiments than in normal Bt corn pollen. In addition, the bee feed was administered over a relatively lengthy six-week period.
Kaatz would have preferred to continue studying the phenomenon but lacked the necessary funding. "Those who have the money are not interested in this sort of research," says the professor, "and those who are interested don't have the money."
Translated from the German by Christopher Sultan
Notes from Kevin: Ok, so what if Americans are buying genitically altered plants from Wally World (WalMart) or any other plant place and planting them in their yards where our nations polinating life line (bee's) get's a hold of it and makes poison honey.
We've all been buying genetically altered food from 99.9% of all grocery stores for years. Knowone has complained yet because everyone is so #$#@#$ ignorant about it all. Nobody cares about the DNA side effects that genetically altered foods are doing to our bodies so why should we care about honey bee's?
Ok.. I feel much better now. Thank's for letting me vent a little. Have a nice day :
4.20.2007
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Hi Susie, will post this.
Brian
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