[Lord_of_the_Dense]

I agree with Dude.

I saved a bee out of my pool the other day.

Normally it's done to save the bee's life.

[DudeAsInCool]

Update: No one knows why yet!!!

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Suddenly, the bees are simply vanishing
Scientists are at a loss to pinpoint the cause. The die-off in 35 states has crippled beekeepers and threatened many crops.

The dead bees under Dennis vanEngelsdorp's microscope were like none he had ever seen.

He had expected to see mites or amoebas, perennial pests of bees. Instead, he found internal organs swollen with debris and strangely blackened. The bees' intestinal tracts were scarred, and their rectums were abnormally full of what appeared to be partly digested pollen. Dark marks on the sting glands were telltale signs of infection.

"The more you looked, the more you found," said VanEngelsdorp, the acting apiarist for the state of Pennsylvania. "Each thing was a surprise."

Read more at the LA Times

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Fearmongering or not, I find this very interesting, and scary at the same time. its something Im going to be following closely.

[DudeAsInCool]

Asian Parasite Killing Western Bees - Scientist

MADRID - A parasite common in Asian bees has spread to Europe and the Americas and is behind the mass disappearance of honeybees in many countries, says a Spanish scientist who has been studying the phenomenon for years.

The culprit is a microscopic parasite called nosema ceranae said Mariano Higes, who leads a team of researchers at a government-funded apiculture centre in Guadalajara, the province east of Madrid that is the heartland of Spain's honey industry.

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[Warflower]

This just scares me.. :(

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20612274/

[DudeAsInCool]

Cow urine may save the day!



And this just in:

Cows Enlisted To Stop Global Warming

" In an attempt to understand the extent of cow flatulence on global warming, scientists in Argentina are strapping plastic bags to the backs of cows to capture their emissions."

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lol at the picture of the cow

[DudeAsInCool]

Italy bans Pesticides linked to Bee Devastation /Neonicotinoids now suspended in four European countries

The Italian government banned the use of several neonicotinoid
pesticides that are blamed for the deaths of millions of honeybees.
The Ministero del Lavoro della Salute e delle Politiche Sociali
issued an immediate suspension of the seed treatment products
clothianidin, imidacloprid, fipronil and thiamethoxam used in
rapeseed oil, sunflowers and sweetcorn. The Italian government will
start a monitoring program to further investigate the reasons of
recent bee deaths.

Italy followed Germany and Slovenia which banned sales of clothianidin
and imidacloprid in May. In France imidacloprid has been banned on
sunflowers already since 1999. In 2003 the substance was also banned
as a sweetcorn treatment. Bayer4s application for clothianidin was
rejected by French authorities.
The two substances are produced by the German company Bayer CropScience
and generated 800 million in 2007. Imidacloprid is Bayer4s best-selling
pesticide.

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[dj3t]

DudeAsInCool, on 23 April 2007 - 10:50 PM, said:

Bees Vanish, and Scientists Race for Reasons

BELTSVILLE, Md., April 23 — What is happening to the bees?

SUSPECTS The volume of theories to explain the collapse of honeybee populations “is totally mind-boggling,” said Diana Cox-Foster, an entomologist at Penn State.More than a quarter of the country’s 2.4 million bee colonies have been lost — tens of billions of bees, according to an estimate from the Apiary Inspectors of America, a national group that tracks beekeeping. So far, no one can say what is causing the bees to become disoriented and fail to return to their hives.

As with any great mystery, a number of theories have been posed, and many seem to researchers to be more science fiction than science. People have blamed genetically modified crops, cellular phone towers and high-voltage transmission lines for the disappearances. Or was it a secret plot by Russia or Osama bin Laden to bring down American agriculture? Or, as some blogs have asserted, the rapture of the bees, in which God recalled them to heaven? Researchers have heard it all.

The volume of theories “is totally mind-boggling,” said Diana Cox-Foster, an entomologist at Pennsylvania State University. With Jeffrey S. Pettis, an entomologist from the United States Department of Agriculture, Dr. Cox-Foster is leading a team of researchers who are trying to find answers to explain “colony collapse disorder,” the name given for the disappearing bee syndrome. “Clearly there is an urgency to solve this,” Dr. Cox-Foster said. “We are trying to move as quickly as we can.”

Read more at the NYTimes

[dj3t]

Its the transmitted signals ...not the multitude of super high frequency cell phone signals...super high frequency digital T.V. signals...or emergency agentcies reinstated anolog signals....ITS ALL OF THESE BROADCASTED SIGNALS COMBINED. (frequencies only cancel each other out in the third derivitive, so humans are diving the bees into depression. the bees are simply miserable in there human altered medium. the only way to reverse this is to limit ppls T.V. and cell phones and wireless internet and not reinstate recently deminished anolog signals.)

[dj3t]

DudeAsInCool, on 12 July 2008 - 10:47 AM, said:

Cow urine may save the day!

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And this just in:

Cows Enlisted To Stop Global Warming

" In an attempt to understand the extent of cow flatulence on global warming, scientists in Argentina are strapping plastic bags to the backs of cows to capture their emissions."

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[dj3t]

No yall...this is one of the dumbest things Ive seen in a minute...so, are we going to alter cow piss?...lets try using less machinery (eg. generators, motors) instead...........commute on bicycle more...hang dry laundry more...open a window more...ect...

[DudeAsInCool]

dj3t, on 25 February 2010 - 10:46 AM, said:

Its the transmitted signals ...not the multitude of super high frequency cell phone signals...super high frequency digital T.V. signals...or emergency agentcies reinstated anolog signals....ITS ALL OF THESE BROADCASTED SIGNALS COMBINED. (frequencies only cancel each other out in the third derivitive, so humans are diving the bees into depression. the bees are simply miserable in there human altered medium. the only way to reverse this is to limit ppls T.V. and cell phones and wireless internet and not reinstate recently deminished anolog signals.)

Thanks for this - I didn't realize that this was a factor.

[dj3t]

DudeAsInCool, on 25 February 2010 - 11:44 AM, said:

Thanks for this - I didn't realize that this was a factor.

i know that the bees are getting sick from toxins also, but if the transmitted signals keep growing there won't be any hope for them anyways.

i think, if more "stationary" bee boxes are used, this may be a helping factor.

i plan on building one in Doucette, Tx.this Summer.

thanks for posting this very important issue, DudeAsInCool.

[DudeAsInCool]

Bad News for Bees: High Levels Of Pesticides & Breakdown Products Found in Bees Wax and Pollen

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Simple solution.
Once hives are found full of pesticides and breakdown products it's not a disorder it's poisoning. Reduce exposures of worker bees to the point where insecticides are no longer found in the hives at toxic levels. Then we'll see if the 'disorder' abates or not.

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