Bee problems

[Bcrazy]

Bees in more trouble
http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/03/25/bees-in-more-trouble-than-ever.html

'Kind of alarming my backside!

 

[Hivemaker.]

And they are even spraying the almonds while the beekeepers are working the hives,read in another place it even makes the beekeepers ill,Mmmm, wonder why.

 

[darrenperrett]

Surely the price for pollination must keep going up each year and something will have to give in the end ?
Maybe a few years hand pollinating Almond trees might put things into perspective.

Darren.

 

[Brosville]

Naah, Syngenta will step in with their "GM Bumbles" that are impervious to insecticides, and that have a terminator gene so they have to buy a new lot every year.....

 

[Hivemaker.]

No mention of bumble bee's,but i did read something in another place today that hinted that for many crops there would be no need of any pollinating insects,that were currently reliant on them...GMO.

 

[Brosville]

so they can use even MORE chemicals, and hurtle us ever faster towards ecological armageddon.........

 

[BKF Admin]

Lots of OSR being grown already Hivemaker.
Remember we had a couple of members last year that got no harvest from the rape as this new stuff does not secret(spelling) nector and is wind pollinated.

 

[Hivemaker.]

Lots of OSR being grown already Hivemaker.
Remember we had a couple of members last year that got no harvest from the rape as this new stuff does not secret(spelling) nector and is wind pollinated.

Yes,i remember,but from what i understand, it appeared they had a lot more than just rape in mind for the future. I believe all rape is mainly wind pollinated anyway.

 

[Finman]

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You are again quite near to World End

Look at US beekeepers' combs. Why they are so black?

 

[plumber]

they have heard of Intergrated Pest Management and will have nothing
to do with it