thedailygreen.com:
So, this year our predictions are that 2.223 million colonies (down from last year because of colony losses to colony collapse disorder and last year's poor honey crop) will produce 53.7 pounds of honey each, for a total of 119.37 million pounds of U. S. produced honey ... this is, friends, the worst honey crop ever. EVER!
Joseph Freeman: Where My Bees At? Five Brothers Rap and Dance To Save The Honey Bees
The dancing in the video is a nod to a ritual of the honeybees, who after returning from a particularly good round of pollinating "dance" directions to the rest of their hive.
Jenna Woginrich: 5 Ways to Turn Your Place into an Organic Farm
Here are a few ways you can bring the organic farm into your own home or apartment, and with soaring food and fuel prices, there are few excuses not to look into easy ways to eat smarter.
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Another example of how a "dire prediction" based on conjecture becomes another scare requiring immediate action, or better, panic.
More than likely, there will be no change in honey production worldwide, and if there is, even more likely is that it will be an increase.
Let's watch....
If we all took out our pesticide- and chemical-soaked water-hogging lawns and planted them over with perennial xeriscape plants that attract bees, butterflies and hummingbirds, as well as wild birds, and provide them with water source and habitat protection, we'd make a difference. I did it and i have tons of honeybees and other beneficial insects and pollinators, frogs, lizards, etc. I overplanted the backyard areas with dutch white clover. It grows about 8 inches tall and doesn't have to be cut unless your sensibilities make you do it in a front garden or yard - and it's so nostalgic - nothing smells like it when it's cut with a reel mower (no gas, please), and the blossoms are buzzing with visiting bees and butterfliew all day long. Do Away With The Lawn - and the need for chemicals, and the bees will return and thrive. got photos of lawn rip-out on facebook if anyone's interested....
Like climate change, I don't think people are going to take the threat of bee population die-off seriously until we start to have severe crop yield reductions as a result of less pollination.
Sadly there are so many things happening to our environment that could potentially affect bees. We need to government to make a sincere effort to protect the environment, not lip service and half measures. And in response to the earlier comment about the potential threats posed to birds and bees from cell towers, right now the Wireless lobby (CTIA) is pushing hard in Washington to remove any restrictions from local authorities for cell tower citing. Apparently corporate profits still reign supreme about all else.
Cell phones and their cell towers are ki.lling off bees around the World. Bees are dying in population worldwide.
Not saying you are wrong, but there have been reports blaming pesticides and maybe genetically modified foods.
Honey - one of nature's under appreciated foods.
I wonder if, without honey bees, native pollinators will have larger populations. Of course, the big business of Frankenfood won't survive without honeybee ghettos. I can get used to locally grown food except for coffee and chocolate.
I know a beekeeper in Michigan and we buy the Honey/Propolis/Royal Jelly mix from him. It's phenomonal. I asked him about his hives last summer and he says that he's not experiencing a big die off and he's working with Purdue researchers trying to figure this thing out. Really nice guy. Farmer Bob. :)
Honey bees and birds have been on the decline. Someday (not far off) we will have to genetically grow all our food. Agriculture or big agri-business is killing us. Fast grow livestock, all the drugs to speed up animals to market and the cure all of weeds to grow more crops is killing us. the water tables, rivers. Greed is killing us! God has nothing to do with this as the right does not believe in global warming. God is their excuse to ignor the devistation worldwide as ignirance and greeds drives mankind off this planet. Also why are we so worried about water on the moon? We should be worried about water right here on earth!
I'm a big honey fan, I have commented on honey stories in the past. But I got to wondering if whats killing the bees might be present in the honey also? Anybody got a funky rash? Anybody who eats alot of honey having nerve problems? Just asking.
I eat and cook with a lot of honey and use it for sore throats with lemon. I also use bee balm products just about daily on my skin.
Sometimes i buy the honey from groceries (big brand name), sometimes from natural food stores and farmer's markets, fruit stands or flea market -type places, sometimes from specialty food catalogs - i have never experienced any side effects . I do a lot of royal jelly, too, and haven't had any issues at all. I think the bee problems are specific to the bees. If the pesticides used on the flowers they feed upon or the grass they land in hasn't killed me through the honey, stings and supplements, i think i'm ok. although i think there is an issue about eating too much honey. I don't eat it every day, but i do eat it frequently. That's not counting the honey in baked or prepared sauces and products that i don't pay attention to.
We have genetic engineered pesticides and we have heavy metals in CHEMTRAILS KILLING the bees.
Wake up we are being poisoned.
The NWO wants to kill agriculture and reduce fertility of humans too.
Fall of the Republic;
please email this URL far and wide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WourPs56Shc
I have an over active imagination.
What if someone did know how to trigger hive collapse disorder from feeding bees from afar. They could effectively control the price of honey stocks. Dr.Evil would do it.
This is a sad news indeed. Good thing I have my own honey at home :)
http://vanillaseven.com/2009/10/31/chinatown-singapore-in-hdr/
saddest news I have read all night.
It has been a unique experience for me this year. We actually got 4 hives of bees brought onto our ranch. I will tell you I was nervous about handling them(not afraid of any other livestock--but this seemed different to me) But a local bee keeper has helped and assisted me and all 4 hives, one almost ready to split into a 5th are all doing fine :)
More like lazy as a bee.
Lazy bees. I demand honey! Get to work or you get the smoke again!
Thanks to HAARP and the che mtr@ il spraying we are losing our precious bees.
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