Flashback:
– Organic Bees Surviving Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)
– Millions of Bees Mysteriously Die in Florida (CBS Tampa, Sep. 30, 2011):
MICCO, Fla. (CBS Tampa/AP) – Florida officials are abuzz as to how millions of honey bees were killed in Brevard County.
Several beekeepers in the county have reported lost colonies this week. Charles Smith of Smith Family Honey Company told Stuart News Thursday he lost 400 beehives. He says the bees appeared to have been poisoned.
“I’ll never get completely compensated for this unless someone handed me 400 beehives,” Smith told Stuart News. “I lost the bees, the ability to make honey and the ability to sell the bees.”
Smith told Florida Today that he lost $150,000 from the incident.
State officials are testing the bees to determine what type of chemicals contributed to their deaths.
Experts say pesticides might be behind the lost beehives.
“The fact that it was so widespread and so rapid, I think you can pretty much rule out disease,” Bill Kern, an entomologist with the University of Florida’s Research and Education Center, told Florida Today. “It happened essentially almost in one day. Usually diseases affect adults or the brood, you don’t have something that kills them both.”
The case in Micco, 18 miles south of Melbourne, is being investigated by state agriculture officials and the sheriff’s office.
See also:
– Healthy Beehives Thrive In Cities
– Study Finds Cell Phones May Have Caused Mysterious Worldwide Bee Deaths
– Scientists: Honeybees ‘Entomb’ Hives To Protect Themselves Against Pesticides
– U.N.: Decline of Honey Bees Now A Global Phenomenon
– Study: Pesticides Are ‘Killing Honeybee Population Worldwide’
– 20,000 Bees Die Within 48 Hours In Canadian Museum
– BBKA Betrayed Bee Keepers To Pesticide Lobby, Endorsed The Most Deadly Substances For Bees Existing On The Planet As ‘Bee-Friendly’ Or ‘Bee-Safe’ (!)
– Bumblebees in Freefall, Study Shows 96 Percent Decline
– EPA Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Honey Bees, Leaked Document Shows (!!!)
– Billons Of Bee Colonies Die Worldwide
– Heavy Honeybee Die-Off Continues; New Study Shows Pollen And Hives Laden With Pesticides
– Study: ‘High-Fructose Corn Syrup and Its Toxicity to the Honey Bee’
– Organic Bees Surviving Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) (!!!)
Yes, organic bees survive CCD, which almost proves that a pesticide (or maybe GM plants) must be responsible for CCD.
Also living on refined white sugar and high-fructose corn syrup in winter certainly can kill any advanced life-form.