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[norfolknchance]

lucky

My bee numbers quadrupled in three years...

current affairs aren't saying they being quadrupled I think we have something in the post coming soon just my opinion please if you are going to leave a snyde comment or a meaningless comment please don't thank you

 

[user 6228]

current affairs aren't saying they being quadrupled I think we have something in the post coming soon just my opinion please if you are going to leave a snyde comment or a meaningless comment please don't thank you

i think statements like " bees in traditional hives, except in sheltered locations, except those closely looked after, except those with additional insulation had an average of 50% losses" don't make the news.

 

[madasafish]

current affairs aren't saying they being quadrupled I think we have something in the post coming soon just my opinion please if you are going to leave a snyde comment or a meaningless comment please don't thank you

Your original question was "Is it true bees are dying faster than they are breeding or on similar path, catastrophic, if so why???????????"

My reply was:
Not snide.
Nor meaningless.
Nor irrelevant.
BUT
Factual

 

[clv101]

The BBKA Stats state that over a third of colonies died out last winter and in some areas it was as high as 50% ...

I'd be interested to know how colony numbers are looking now. Has this summer managed to rebuild all of those 30-50% losses? Are we still down on this time last year or up?

 

[psafloyd]

current affairs aren't saying they being quadrupled I think we have something in the post coming soon just my opinion please if you are going to leave a snyde comment or a meaningless comment please don't thank you

Look, there is always a bit of banter on here. But would you please use a bit of punctuation, as I keep nearly passing out reading your posts.

 

[Mark Young]

.....and your evidence for this wild hypothesis?????????????

If beliefs required evidence we would all be atheists, then God knows who we will blame for the demise...

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Look, there is always a bit of banter on here. But would you please use a bit of punctuation, as I keep nearly passing out reading your posts.

Isn't it funny how we regulate our breathing patterns to the punctuation even when we are reading? - or do you always read out loud (and do you break up the word into smaller chunks when you are struggling with the pronounciation)

 

[Skyhook]

current affairs aren't saying they being quadrupled I think we have something in the post coming soon just my opinion please if you are going to leave a snyde comment or a meaningless comment please don't thank you

His comments were relevant. Current affairs programmes are part of the entertainment industry and while they can be useful in bringing issues to ones attention, you don't want to base your conclusions on them.


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[Margaret Elisabeth]

It all depends on the weather. Or, it all depends on whether. Or it all depends on where.

 

[user 6228]

My bee numbers quadrupled in three years...

not trying hard enough ... got 11 colonies out of 3 in one year.

 

[madasafish]

not trying hard enough ... got 11 colonies out of 3 in one year.

I could not - or rather would not - build 8 new hives in a year....nor could I afford the £200 required. I am on a tight beekeeping budget which SWMBO attempts to monitor... ..

 

[rolande]

....I think we have something in the post coming soon....

would you like to elaborate on this, or is there simply 'norfolknchance' of you doing so?

 

[Roola]

Look, there is always a bit of banter on here. But would you please use a bit of punctuation, as I keep nearly passing out reading your posts.

 

[norfolknchance]

pesticides

Your original question was "Is it true bees are dying faster than they are breeding or on similar path, catastrophic, if so why???????????"

My reply was:
Not snide.
Nor meaningless.
Nor irrelevant.
BUT
Factual

The gravity of the situation was underscored , when the European Commission (EC) said it intended to impose a two-year ban on a class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids, now the world’s most widely used type of insecticide. Neonicotinoids are one of the leading suspected causes of colony collapse disorder, and the European Commission announced its controversial decision three months after the European Food Safety Agency concluded that the pesticides represented a “high acute risk” to honeybees and other pollinators

 

[madasafish]

The gravity of the situation was underscored , when the European Commission (EC) said it intended to impose a two-year ban on a class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids, now the world’s most widely used type of insecticide. Neonicotinoids are one of the leading suspected causes of colony collapse disorder, and the European Commission announced its controversial decision three months after the European Food Safety Agency concluded that the pesticides represented a “high acute risk” to honeybees and other pollinators

As Colony Collapse Disorder is not recorded in Europe your point is irrelevant.

 

[norfolknchance]

ok

As Colony Collapse Disorder is not recorded in Europe your point is irrelevant.

Point taken,we have nothing to worry about then. Thank you

 

[sandysman]

Point taken,we have nothing to worry about then. Thank you

I love it when we can have a group hug after a difference of opinion.
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[PBee]

As Colony Collapse Disorder is not recorded in Europe your point is irrelevant.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1758-2229.2011.00312.x/full

 

[norfolknchance]

spot on

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1758-2229.2011.00312.x/full

you are spot on point is taken many thanks

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

As the article says - no CCD in Europe. and no evidence of ineonics being 'the leading suspected cause', just the septic tanks trying to find an excuse for their poor bee husbandry.