Stung by Losses, U.S. Beekeepers Try to Rebuild

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LadyWillow — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:59:56 GMT

Hi, my Husband and I live out in the country, and I often see, both Honey bees which I am taking to be the small bee's and then the huge bumble bees but I don't know if the later make any honey but they sure are noisy.

We leave the bugs alone for the most part as we encourage wildlife habitate on our property we own 15 acres.

But we do have 2 types of bugs that each year present a danger for myself and some of my family who are allergic to thier stings and that is Mud doppers who can sting and sting and sting you again they are exceedingly agressive and thier stings are far more painful than a normal bee sting.

And then we also have problems with red, and black wasps & yellow jackets they seem drawn to our mobile home. So once or twice a year my husband does get a can of the distance spray stuff and sprays the nests of those buggers but I hate having to do that as I know how dangerous the toxins in those cans can be. 2 years ago I was outside removing empty wasp nests and ran into an occupied one so I went to spray it and the wind shifted, I was instantly soaked with the stream of poison that should have landed on the wasp's nest. I also got it on my feet. I even inhaled some of it not intentionally it just happened.

That night I started getting ill, diarrhea, shakes, I couldn't manage my body temp, and I started to get dehydrated. I ended up in my doctors office by day 2 I couldn't keep food down, and I was loosing fluids from both directions, I was so weak I thought I was going to die.

All my doctor could do for me was give me medicine for the nasuea, and the diarrhea and send me home.

Since then I haven't even been able to stand the smell of any thing that is toxic to bugs.

I don't like having to resort to sprays they aren't good for the earth but every year we get hit with waves of wasps so bad no one can go outside because of them. Its really bad.

Lady Willow

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rfidge — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:44:30 GMT

Dr. Mercola and Staff THE CAUSE OF OUR BEE‘S TROUBLES

Please get in touch with me, I will let you listen to the very irritating 6.25 Cycles Per Second frequencys that can be picked up on short wave radio. These Very Low Frequencys are causing physical troubles in my own body, along with the fact that I can hear them; 3 in the morning I often find my body vibrating at this frequency. This first started in the spring of 2003.

I have personally seen the antennas on a praying mantis violently vibrating at this frequency!.I have many other researched facts that point to these frequencys as the culprit to the destruction of many sea and land creatures. I understand that only the free world has this Bee problem?

And if you are intrested, I have an Ozone Map that was altered, reason? The origional was very clearly a vast strong concentration of Ozone, 2/3 the size of the USA over Canada. This concentration blocked the UV light causing the lower air to cool, creating a giant vacuum, which sucked in the southern warm

air over N. Calif. causing a very early spring in 2007; then the Northern cold air came in and we lost a lot of our crops that had bloomed early. Much more proof of weather/ enviromental manuplitation.

A Question ? Why hasn‘t our country used the same zeal / vigor that was known in the defoliation of Viet Nam using big bladders full of defoliant in quaderens of B-52‘s?, but use this same Idea using thousands of gallons of water or a fire retardent borate to wipe out this present fire Katrina we are having here in N. California ?.

Yours, I Care Ron Fidge 707 928 4428 PO Box 102 Cobb Ca. 95426 M - ronfidge777@juno.com

re: Stung by Losses, U.S. Beekeepers Try to Rebuild

grrrlgenius — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:09:12 GMT

I visited Santa Monica in February of 2003 and saw thousands of honeybees dying by the shore. They were up and down the coast by the pier either dead or dying. Has anyone else seen anything like this? I didn't know if it was something that normally happened (I lived in Chicago at the time) or what. Was this something unusual?

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Blackberry_Briar — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:23:20 GMT

I know two beekeepers locally (within a 25 mile radius). Both are 'organic' in that they do not use pesticides on their crops or other chemicals. The difference between them is that one leaves part of the honey for the bees to consume during the Michigan winter and the other takes all the honey and feeds the bees high fructose corn syrup during the winter. The last two winters the HFCS bees died off, but the bees allowed to use their own honey wintered over without any problems.

I think if beekeepers just tried for one winter giving bees only honey they would see a reduction in the die off.

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CEM — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:11:22 GMT

I'm a little disappointed in this article - though you mention the possbility that cell phones could be involved in CCD, it is barely a mention.

Pesticides have been around in large quantities for decades - CCD is new. Right there - that ought to tip anybody off that something new here is going on, yet you barely even touch on this in your article.

You mention the stress of being trucked and transported all over the country - well, think about it...

If you transport bees via truck, these bees are going to be exposed to a variety of foreign and stress-inducing sources of electromagnetic and microwave frequencies from all the cell phone towers and high-tension power lines and so forth that are encountered en route.

We need to get past the duh factor here - yeah, pesticides are poison - but they were poison decades ago, too, and the bees did just fine.

Google the Bioinitiative Report and everything becomes crystal clear.

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jasannawalt — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:18:20 GMT

I have been raising bees for 55 years. I have moved hives countless times and never had any trouble. Beekeepers have been moving bees for thousands of years. The egyptians used barges to move their bees up and down the nile and that honey was found in the tombs of the pyramids.

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Casablanca — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:21:50 GMT

First the bees, now the bats are dieing.

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DLARAH — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:21:53 GMT

Hi, Y'all.

My brother has been a beekeeper for 30 years. He is a very observant person. Last year he lost 50% of his hives and he found the cause to be a very mild Fall, which produced lots of flowers and, of course, honey. Because the honey did not have time to evaporate sufficient moisture, before the bees covered the honeycomb, mold formed. When the bees fed on this moldy honey, they died. As everyone before me discussed, there are many possible causes for this sudden increase of bee deaths. As Dr. Mercola also said, this is a wake-up call for us, the people, to call for a halt to this mindless pursuit of everything connected with "economy". I have come to the conclusion, that greed, being driven by the so-called "bottom line" is causing all this grief. Nobody seems to notice, that there once was such a thing as Quality of Life! Quality of Life has very little to do with aquisitions of 'things' and everything to do with taking time out to enjoy the simple things in life. I am reading a very interesting book by a Dr. Richard Gerber MD called 'Vibrational Medicine', in which it is being recognized, that all Life is created by matrixes of higher vibrations. These are interacting within all lifeforms as a kind of road map, which cells use to orientate themselves within their programmed mandates. It is easy to understand, therefore, that ALL of Life is influenced by ALL factors mentioned above! This is the true meaning of (W)HOLISTIC thinking, which is certainly not common place anymore, if it ever was!

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Nicki — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:12:38 GMT

My friend who keeps bees lost 25 of his hives this spring, in France, the first time it had happened to him. He had, unknowingly at the time, put them in a field close to where the farmer farms GMO corn!!!!

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Ramona_203 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:23:30 GMT

Get ahold of "The Bee Movie" and watch it.

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Rhonwyn — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:16:24 GMT

So if cell phones are the problem, why now compared urban bee hives and rural bee hives. We have lots of thriving bee hives in Seattle and also lots of cell phones. What we don't have is GMO crops or as many pesticides.

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HealingMindN — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:26:35 GMT

I shared the following information with Google MV since they put in their free WiFi network. I haven't heard from them yet, but I still remember seeing a few bees acting strangely when the network was installed: They were inside these zucchini flowers constantly bathing themselves and rolling around in pollen. I'd go back the next day and they were still there - as if they were in agony or confusion.

Good vibrations could save vanishing bees

Published Date: 26 April 2008

IT IS a mystery that has had scientists stumped. But now experts in Scotland believe they have discovered why bees have been abandoning their hives and vanishing.

Scientists at the Roslin-based firm Global Bioenergetics think disturbance to bees from mobile phones, radio signals, wi-fi and microwaves is disrupting them with devastating results.

They think increased airwaves could be interfering with their ability to do the bee dance, which they use to tell other bees where to find pollen.

Stress caused to the bees by the radiation could be damaging their immune systems, leaving them prone to increasing levels of herbicides, insecticides and fungicides sprayed on crops.

The scientists are trying out a new device, called a Bioemitter, that transmits electromagnetic waves to provide a stable environment and reduce stress for the bees in their hives, boosting their immune system.

Global Bioenergetics is about to start trials with bee farmer Brian Poole, from Scottish-Honey.

Fiona Murray, a political and environmental adviser for Global Bioenergetics, said: “The Bioemitter creates a field in the hive. It inputs a highly specified frequency. In comparison frequencies from things like mobile phones are random.

The specific frequency shields out the frequency of the mobile phones, microwaves and everything else from the hives, to create a more stable environment in the hive.

We can also put in frequencies that are beneficial, to boost the bees’ own immune system... (http://news.scotsman.com/)

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SimonSays — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:21:47 GMT

Although our harmful products (pesticides, etc.) do harm bees too, it is commentators "Alisa" and particularly "Safe" that have outstanding intelligence in this post. You guys and gals MUST read the Dr. Mercola posts about Hypersensitive Electromagnetic Syndrome / Disorder, which is a relatively new subject about how some people really do have some mild to devastating effects from an ever-increasing bombardment of EM (electromagnetic) radiation. I truly hope that MOST scientists go this route that Dr. Warnke discusses (see comments again by "Safe"), otherwise, as bee colonies continue to collapse, less food will be pollinated, and with a growing population, this likely could mean that prices for fruits and nuts will literally skyrocket, and become economical delicacies for the masses. Of course, the implications are far beyond that, but ... truly, I hope there is a "movement" in the near future that has people giving up their cell phones, and that we go back to the days where we, as human beings, are not "on-call" or "on-demand" 24x7.

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T_rex — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:12:04 GMT

Pesticides, pesticides, pesticides, millions of tons annually around the globe. Each year another 200 million pounds added to the year before, and the year before that. Can anyone expect the bees to survive such persistent ACCUMULATION of pesticides ?

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tamnadia72 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:38:39 GMT

I am friendly with a beekeeper who is a very, let us say, innovative thinker. However, his approach to beekeeping is grounded in common sense: He uses non-GMO bees, and feeds them organic honey--no corn syrup of any kind! And, although his bees buzz in an urban area, they feed only on neighboring wildflowers and such that have not been sprayed with synthetic pest/herbicides, and are continuously healthy and productive. The honey is the most delectable anywhere: raw, unfiltered, with subtle essences in the background taste. His honey reminds me of how bees should be farmed, and shows how traumatic commercial beekeeping is. As usual, this is a case of human "stewardship" gone horribly awry. Why can't we just do things the RIGHT way? Argh!!!!!