The State of The Environment

[norayn]

What's happening to the bees?
Suddenly, the bees farmers and growers rely on are vanishing. Researchers are scrambling to find out why.
By Moises Velasquez-Manoff | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor , April 7, 2007

Comments

[spranglady]

Funny... Sal said something about this yesterday. He said that he noticed that all the bees around the picnic table at his work (in NC) were dying or dead, and few of them had stingers. He thought that odd. But to read this article on the heels of that observation... that's kind of scary. What in the world are we doing that's killing off our tiny winged friends?

[norayn]

I wonder in our lifetimes what will become of our Food supply as we know it?

With the very extreme climate/temperature changes we now have that affect the 'chilling requirements' of various fruit trees and such ("However, for high chilling requirement varieties, if the chilling requirement is not met, trees will bloom very erratically, produce deformed leaves and have little to no fruit set in the spring."), to the chemicals, pesticides, genetically modified seeds and cross contamination with normal seeds, the pollination process in jepordy ~ wonder what the lesson is here (for the collective 'we' ?)

[fabricdragon]

yes i had heard this as well...
since many of the pesticides have long term build up effects in HUMANS i dont see why its so hard to follow the idea in bees.

but it is scary.... and we dont know if the honey is contaminated by whatever it is.

by the by, this is why they tell you to never put honey out for hummingbirds or other insects.. if the bees have something it might be transmitted that way.

[norayn]

The Honey condition is a good point! Hadn't thought of that. Big Honey user am I!!

[silver_spiral]

Oh, this is not good. I hope they find out the cause.. and fast. Thanks for posting!

[norayn]

I remember back in the 1980's when AIDS first appearred. They didn't know yet that it was a virus or how it was transmitted. Interesting!