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Originally posted by Afterthought
reply to post by bulla
This thread is based on a case in Brevard County, Florida where 400 hives were stricken in one night. This is why they're speculating that they were poisoned. Could an electromagnetic storm have caused this many bees to die at once? If so, wouldn't it be more widespread than just this concentrated area?edit on 8-12-2011 by Afterthought because: (no reason given)
Agriculture officials have identified an insecticide commonly used to eradicate roaches, ticks and fleas as the substance that killed hundreds of South Brevard beehives in September.
But the incident remains a whodunit.
The widely used insecticide allows time for insects to carry the poison back to its colony to kill others.
“It’s something that’s designed more or less to kill social insects,” said beekeeper David Webb of Palm Bay, who lost more than 2,300 hives along Babcock Street in South Brevard.
He estimates he’s out $500,000 worth of bees and honey. “There’s no insurance for something like that,” Webb said
Only a few of his remaining hives in the area survived.
Tests by a U.S. Department of Agriculture laboratory found the poison in a mixture of white sugar and water he uses to feed the bees, Webb said.
The mixture was in a large plastic container in the back of a truck parked at his Palm Bay house, he said, while he was away at a bee conference in Argentina.
“Apparently, it was poisoned in that tote,” Webb said, adding that he’s not sure who might have done such a thing. “I hate to start pointing fingers. I just don’t see how it would have been an accident.”
Webb said he plans to meet with law enforcement officials Monday.
“They’ve determined it wasn’t mosquito spraying,” said Jerry Hayes, chief apiary inspector for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. “They’re looking at contamination of the feedstuff.”
Knowing the poison is far from knowing what happened, officials said.
“Without residues of some type that have been applied by somebody in that area that they have record of, it’s a needle in the haystack,” Hayes said.
Charles Smith of Fellsmere also lost several hundred hives about a half-mile south of Micco Road near the Indian River County line and not far from Webb’s hives.
Webb suspects Smith’s bees ate poisoned syrup from his hives. When Smith checked his hives in September, he found mounds of dead bees spilling out of all 400 hives.
Smith estimated he lost $150,000 in bees and in honey proceeds. “It leaves me out in the cold,” Smith said.
Originally posted by dorkfish87
reply to post by Corruption Exposed
Einstein once said if honeybees went extinct the human race would have only a few years left to live
Originally posted by Afterthought
reply to post by bulla
I don't believe that it's whether or not people have misinterpreted or not understood what you've said, I jsut don't feel it pertains to this thread given the new evidence.
I think it would be beneficial for everyone if you would create a thread about your bee theory. I think it needs to be discussed as a whole rather than be buried within this thread.
Originally posted by bulla
reply to post by bulla
I can see out of the lack of peoples understanding that I could make millions out of setting up a a server that was just contained to providing bee hive surveillance for my costumers who would be prepared to pay for such surveillance and do it all from my lounge chair, here in Australia would you like me to do that would you pay me to watch your hives
have you just crawled out from under some rock of no intelligence of what is now possible within the realms of remote surveillance of your your valuable assists, please no disrespect ment but you are living in 2011 not 1911