Mysterious disappearance of American honey bees, page 1

I found some more information out on this . I too have noticed a decrease in the amount of Bees in my area. For the past couple of years, I have seen less and less around my yard and my pool. Now that could be because we recently re-sided the house and took a bunch of the flowers out but it might not be. Here is what I found.

"How much of our food production do we want to turn over to other
countries that might be friendly now and not friendly in the future? The federal government is looking at this and my question is: Are honey bees the canary in the coal mine? What are honey bees trying to tell us that we humans should be paying more attention to?" - Jerry Hayes, Chief, Apiary Section, Florida Dept. of Agriculture, Gainsville, Florida

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Sounds a bit ominous, if you ask me. Could Bees be the Canary in the coal mine? For what Global Warming maybe, or as this article states pesticides could be the cause.

March 16, 2007 Washington, D. C. - In my previous February 23, 2007, Earthfiles and Coast to Coast AM news updates about the mysterious honey bee disappearances, I interviewed a Pennsylvania honey beekeeper who has had nearly 2,000 of his 2900 hives disappear - a 60% loss to date. That is David Hackenberg of Hackenberg Apiary in Pennsylvania. He said he had never seen so many deserted hives that were also left alone by predator moths and beetles. That's why he suspects some kind of pesticide is getting into the flower pollen and nectar and poisoning the hives.

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WOW...That is pretty much all I can say. That is a huge decrease in Bee Hives, in just that one area of the country. This can have a drastic impact on many things. If we keep going down this road, of killing off our own agricultural areas because of pesticides, we are in for some big trouble, on many levels. One big one I see is having to rely more on stuff from over-seas. That is no good, I would think, especially with the "Bunk" Chinese Pet Food.

China is investigating U.S. claims that a Chinese company exported contaminated wheat gluten implicated in pet deaths in the United States, a Chinese official said Friday, the first time the government has weighed in on the issue.

"We are investigating this," Zeng Xing, an official with the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, told The Associated Press. The administration monitors the export of food, animals and farm products.

Chinese Pet Food Deaths

How long do you think it will be until We start to get sick mysteriously from 'Tainted' food we get from over-seas?

Another thing, I think, less Bees will effect is our corn crops. If this happens we are screwed. Even more so now that we can use corn for fuel and are actually planning to increase our nation wide corn production.

(CBS) Gas prices are passing $3 a gallon and climbing, oil companies are making record profits and there is serious concern about this country’s dependence on foreign oil. Those things have sparked a lot of talk about using something else, instead of oil, to fuel our cars.

As correspondent Dan Rather reports, Brazil faced similar problems and already has solved most of them. Instead of gasoline, many Brazilians are using ethanol – which can be made from plants into a kind of alcohol – to power their cars. It’s cheaper and cleaner. As a result, Brazil has virtually stopped importing expensive foreign oil.

Corn For Fuel

I know many people hate Bees and are glad to see them go. However, this is a very big deal. First the Bees, then the Crops, then Us. Not now, but years in the future, this will be effecting our society and our way of life.