Millions of bees dying Ecological Disaster

[lovuian]

Run time: 01:01 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8A6Tl6JzG0   Posted on YouTube: February 15, 2007 By YouTube Member: lovuian Views on YouTube: 13075   Posted on DU: February 15, 2007 By DU Member: lovuian Views on DU: 2067

 
Do you know that Honey Bees are needed to pollinate

fruit trees
food
fuel
and
drugs

Everything is connected in ecological world

[JAbuchan08]

1. K&R

decent video, would like to know more.

[kestrel91316]

2. Here:

http://www.aginfo.psu.edu/News/07Jan/HoneyBees.htm

It's called "colony collapse".

I suspect we will find that, once again, MANKIND has gone and screwed something up in the environment to cause this.

Oh well..........maybe the animal rights crowd will be happy if all the bees die so man can't "exploit" them anymore.

[OneBlueSky]

16. "Besides apples, crops that depend at least in part on honey bee pollination include . . .

peaches, soybeans, pears, pumpkins, cucumbers, cherries, raspberries, blackberries and strawberries." . . .

gonna be a damn sorry world without these crops . . .

[RebelOne]

19. Well, I'm part of the animal rights crowd and I sure

as hell don't wish to see the bees die off. That's a very inane remark.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

3. all the honey bees died where i live 5 years ago...none left

the orchards in the valley have to truck in bees now to pollinate....it is very frightening and most poeple never even noticed it :(

they will not come back either...my friend is a beekeeper and had a hundred hives...i think it is caused by a mite from japan
that has invaded and killed every bee in this upstate, ny community. every he imports new bees in the hopes of recolonizing:(...but,they all die too

life out of balance

[bahrbearian]

5. This is a new disease not caused by mites,,it is very scary.

[Pharaoh]

4. I've noticed a severe decline

around here in wisconsin, honeybees used to be so abundant they were almost a nuisance, now you hardly see them. Yeah, at some point this ecosystem is going to collapse, it is happening all over, I wonder how much time we have left...........

[ElsewheresDaughter]

6. i'm guessing 15/20 years

[Pharaoh]

7. Oh Good........ Whew.........

I should be dead by then , so fuck all the rest of ya! :sarcasm:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

9. oh snap...according to Eisntien "without bees man would have only 4 years to live"

http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=5981

[ElsewheresDaughter]

8. Related articles and links

Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country
http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=5981


NPR : Declining Bee Population Threatens Major Growers
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6299480


Bee Decline May Spell End of Some Fruits, Vegetables
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/1005_041005_honeybees.html

THIS IS OUR FOOD! THINK ABOUT IT

[Goat or Panic]

12. Thanks for the links

Interesting reading. Fortunately it looks like people are addressing the issue. Always amazing how connected all creatures great and small are.

[Pharaoh]

17. Oh Darn!

Well it's been nice knowing ya all...........can we eat dirt?

[lovuian]

10. And Meanwhile what is our Agriculture Department doing

what is going on Insect experts

4 years did Einstein see this coming???

[Dammit Ann]

11. This is scary as hell.

I saw something about this on the "news", believe or not. We must wake up and smell the (non) roses. Ecological damage has been done, now what do we do?

[bridgit]

13. yeah, they mentioned on the radio that biopsy found scaring in their internal...

systems i.e. throats, rectum; that were consistent with a viral infection for which they had no imunity...aside from being a sentinel species, bees pollinate 1/3 of all the crops so yeah, it's a very big deal

signs & wonders

[bridgit]

14. some beekeepers losing 80-90% of their hives due to collapse i should add...

[dipsydoodle]

15. Maybe the aggregate effect of pesticides

See here for further information :
http://www.ent.uga.edu/bees/Disorders/pesticide_kills.htm

[bridgit]

20. i recall the piece did mention that, however low-grade the pesticide...

in aggregate it appears to have effected them :(

[The Backlash Cometh]

18. I haven't seen a honey bee around here in years.

I just started a butterfly garden and have been paying attention. Two years ago we had lots of paper wasps, mud wasps and I admit, I dispensed with them. We do have huge bumblebees, and since I put in the flowers, hummingbirds. But no honey bees.

[lovuian]

21. The huge bees are carpenter bees and they don't make honey

they do pollinate

and they plant their larvae in the wood

[The Backlash Cometh]

22. I know them well.

[lovuian]

23. kick

its getting in the news
more
still haven't figured why they are dying