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POPSGermany bans chemicals linked to honeybee devastation The company says an application error by the seed company which failed to use the glue-like substance that sticks the pesticide to the seed, led to the chemical getting into the air. Bayer spokesman Dr Julian Little told the BBC's Farming Today that misapplication is highly unusual. "It is an extremely rare event and has not been seen anywhere else in Europe," he said. Clothianidin, like the other neonicotinoid pesticides that have been temporarily suspended in Germany, is a systemic chemical that works its way through a plant and attacks the nervous system of any insect it comes into contact with. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency it is "highly toxic" to honeybees.
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POPSGotta keep up with the doom and gloom! Aging systems releasing sewage into rivers, streams. “Local governments across the USA plan to spend billions modernizing failing wastewater systems — some of which are more than 100 years old — over the next 10 to 20 years, EPA, state and local sewer authority officials said. Those improvement efforts face a huge challenge mitigating problems in what the EPA estimates to be 1.2 million miles of sewers snaking underground across the USA.” Bodies rot in cyclone-hit Burma. “Piles of rotting corpses are stacking up in remote villages of Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta, with residents saying they don't have enough fuel to cremate victims of deadly Cyclone Nargis.” Deadly battles as Hezbollah says Lebabon 'declares war'. “Deadly gunbattles erupted in Beirut on Thursday after Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah charged that a Lebanese government crackdown on his group was tantamount to a 'declaration of war,' stoking fears of a full-blown sectarian conflict."
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POPSMysterious Bee Deaths Linked To Pesticides? Comment hsutton wrote: Pesticides "in and of itself is probably not the cause of the honeybee's dying. What are you feeding them? If the answer is a combination of high fructose corn syrup and water then it should be noted that some time back a genetic modifier introduced into "corn" is the real culprit. This modifier causes the corn to make it's own "pesticide". Going back to feeding them real Sugar/Water will stop most of the problem. Monsanto and other companies are putting these things in 90% of the vegetable crops in the US, and have been for some time. Whatever it's doing to the honey bees it will also eventually do to us. If this trend continues human beings will start dying from "unknown" causes sometime in the very near future too. Comment by subscriber:hsutton
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POPSEmergency honey bee plan in wings Wild European honey bees pollinate fruits and vegetables near the hives, and so farmers rely on them for a crop. They are discussing ways of introducing clean queens into the wild, that have been hatched by commercial farmers if the Varroa mites wipe the existing bees out. Apart from this patch, they are also discussing biosecurity, and reviewing the entire pollination industry.They will also discuss the use of native bees, which are not affected by the mite. Native bees will only be useful for some crops.
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POPSResearchers Closer To Solving Disappearing Bee Mystery Dennis Avery, director of the Center for Global Food Issues and senior fellow of the Hudson Institute said, "Of course, blaming pesticides has been the standard political tactic of the environmental movement since Rachel Carson wrongly blamed DDT for thinning the egg shells of eagles 40 years ago. "Again, the activists blamed before they knew the answer," Avery continued. "That's their tactic: Find a problem, blame it on something they want to get rid of, and put that perception into the public mind before anyone has time to do real science on the real problems. Bees play an integral role in the world food supply, providing pollination for 90 fruit and vegetable crops that in the United States alone generate $14 billion in annual revenue for U.S. farmers. The almond crop in California, for example, requires and cannot survive without bee pollination.
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POPSAfricanized Honeybees found in Louisiana Part of an experiment in Brazil in 1957 to increase honey production, a swarm escaped, and began heading North, while interbreeding with Western honeybees along the way, passing on a characteristic aggressive trait, which can make a swarm life threatening. There is both the threat due to their aggressive nature ( Pre-Emptive Strike?), and the threat to the entire beekeeping industry. Beekeepers in Full Body Armour, inside an industrial greenhouse, with robotic collection, and a hermetic seal. Unless we can find a way to make honey without bees.
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POPS Scientists Research Disappearance Of Bumblebees Thorp, an emeritus professor of entomology from the University of California at Davis, found one solitary worker last year along a remote mountain trail in the Siskiyou Mountains, but hasn't been able to locate any this year He fears that the species — Franklin's bumblebee — has gone extinct before anyone could even propose it for the endangered species list. To make matters worse, two other bumblebee species — one on the East coast, one on the West — have gone from common to rare. Honey Bee Die-Off-Alarm Beekeepers http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/02/05/bees_ani.html?category=animals&guid=20070205144500
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POPSAussie bees cleared of US colony collapse? Bee expert Doug Somerville said viruses only tend to be a problem for bees when they are already sick from malnutrition, pests, diseases, or environmental factors and pesticides. Apparently Australian bees don't like feeding off crops and weeds that have been sprayed with pesticide.
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