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Surprise! Organic Beekeepers Reporting Zero Losses |
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| By Michael d'Estries in Green Living, Pollution | May 11, 2007 | ||
With all the frightening news over bee losses throughout the world, it appears that one tiny minor piece of information was overlooked: the losses are occurring in colonies besieged with chemicals and artificial additives. Organic bees are fairing quite nicely, thank you. From the article,
“‘I’m on an organic beekeeping list of about 1,000 people, mostly Americans, and no one in the organic beekeeping world, including commercial beekeepers, is reporting colony collapse on this list,’ said Sharon Labchuck. ‘The problem with the big commercial guys is that they put pesticides in their hives to fumigate for varroa mites, and they feed antibiotics to the bees. They also haul the hives by truck all over the place to make more money with pollination services, which stresses the colonies.’”
In our efforts to make larger bees that are resistant to more predators or diseases — have we crossed the line in how far we could go? As the article states, “Who should be surprised that the major media reports forget to tell us that the dying bees are actually hyper-bred varieties that we coax into a larger than normal body size? It sounds just like the beef industry. And, have we here a solution to the vanishing bee problem? Is it one that the CCD Working Group, or indeed, the scientific world at large, will support? Will media coverage affect government action in dealing with this issue?”
Or, even better: Would this current administration dare trample on the industry that has risen to supply the pesticides and inorganic alternatives to these bee keepers? Can they afford not to?
Check out the article for more information — but if we’ve already pushed bees too far, imagine what we’re doing to other aspects of the environment….
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Politics in the Zeros_archi »Blog Archive » Organic beekeepers report zero losses said,
[...] “I’m on an organic beekeeping list of about 1,000 people, mostly Americans, and no one in the organic beekeeping world, including commercial beekeepers, is reporting colony collapse on this list,” said Sharon Labchuck. “The problem with the big commercial guys is that they put pesticides in their hives to fumigate for varroa mites, and they feed antibiotics to the bees. They also haul the hives by truck all over the place to make more money with pollination services, which stresses the colonies.” [...]
Low Mileage Food » Late Night Ramblings said,
[...] It occurred to me that this pollution angle doesn’t just apply to climate change. Groovy Green reports that organic bee colonies are not being affected by Colony Collapse Disorder. Chemicals = pollution as far as I’m concerned. Examples of organic practices being better than ‘normal’ practices abound. As with climate change, the problem is pollution. [...]
deliberately said,
Great post. This CCD thing has now gotten to the mainstream media, having started on the web some time ago. Foodies and environmentalists were the first to raise concern outside of the beekeeper population and theories abounded as to what was causing it.
How interesting that only now I hear that the organic cultivators have experienced nothing of the kind. Thanks for the tidbit!
Organic Beekeepers report zero losses... « Homeless on the High Desert said,
[...] Monday, May 14th, 2007 in Physics “[O]n an organic beekeeping list of about 1,000 people, mostly Americans, and no one in the organic beekeeping world, including commercial beekeepers, is reporting colony collapse on this list,” said Sharon Labchuck. “The problem with the big commercial guys is that they put pesticides in their hives to fumigate for varroa mites, and they feed antibiotics to the bees. They also haul the hives by truck all over the place to make more money with pollination services, which stresses the colonies.” Blogroll [...]
Neil Smith said,
Did you hear Richard Hoglands explanation of the bee losses? & why the organic bees were not affected?
Sounds right to me.
Check it out on past shows of Coast to coast.
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/
Multi Medium » Clean Bees Are Happy Bees said,
[...] (Chain of hat tips: The Sideshow -> Emphyrio -> GroovyGreen) [...]
Live Wholesome! » Organic Bees! said,
[...] What with the Internet Interuptis, this got lost in the fray. I had meant to pass it along as the discussion on “Bee Colony Collapse Disorder” continues unabated. [...]
Boris Romanov said,
I am also organic beekeeper.
Click here to read more:
http://www.beebehavior.com/weak_state_bee_colonies.php
Boris Romanov
Terry Loz said,
Not true. Organic beekeepers have been affected by Colony Collapse Disorder.
http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/blogs/bees/colony-collapse-disorder-55050802
rich said,
my friends are beekeepers and have about 25 hives so far. they haven’t lost any either !!!!
i’ll send them this article ….
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=goldieshome&view=videos
goldieshouse.piczo.com
Peter Thompson said,
When Bees eat GM BT (Baccilus Thurengenises) Crops, the Bt in that pollen gives the Bees an immune response. When Bees have an immune response they use all available protein in that immune response. Bees also use protein in memory formation, thus after an immune response, the Bees then have no protein left to construct a memory with. Thus bees loose their memory and cant find the bee hive due to a GM Bt pollen induced protein deficencey, which causes a memory loss. In winter very little Pollen Pollen protein is available, and thats why collony colapse diosorder is seen mainly during and after in winter. No One will publish my findings which that have 24 published references to support them.
GM crops make animals and people sterile too.
Brad said,
Possible other cause of CCD is GM (genetically modified) plant pollen poisoning the bees…most of the CCD is clustered in areas that have large acreages planted in GM crops.
Dave said,
I lost my bees to Ursus americanus. <:-P I recently had a conversation with the beekeeper from whom I first acquired my bees. Though he is not an organic keeper, he has not suffered losses widely reported by others. His bees are primarily for honey production and local sales. He keeps hives permanently in various apple orchards here in the mountains where there are still many other pollen sources throughout the season. This beekeeper believes that the primary culprit of CCD is high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) fed by beekeepers whose primary service is providing pollination to orchards across wide areas and who produce no honey. Since this would be HFCS not for human consumption, how much is being or could be produced from BT corn? Is this possibly a pesticide/herbacide laced BTHFCS cocktail of death for our sweet bees?
Cliff Mickelson said,
Personally, I lose more colonies to yellow jacket hornets (AKA meat bees) each year than to all other causes combined. They are MAJOR pests and can wipe out a hive in a matter of hours. Colony collapse is the least of our worries here in the Pacific Northwest. Get rid of yellow Jackets and honey production will double in many areas. The Yellowjackets eat anything that isn’t nailed to the ground. That includes most fruits and nuts. When those little devils aren’t busy killing my bees they are busy eating my apples and plums.
-CM
pizza said,
So bees are the canary in the coalmine….. guess what – the canary is dead.
Raw Cuisine - Food for Consciousness » Blog Archive » Surprise! Organic Beekeepers Reporting Zero Losses said,
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Mark said,
To Late Night Ramblings…. When in earth’s past was there no climate change? Pollution is leading to the poisoning of our Earth, not its changing climate. Climate is cyclical and ever changing, with, or without man. Genetic modifications to our food will kill us long before the CO2 we exhale and plants breath. Climate change fans (used to be global warming until we found that the world has been cooling for the last 7 years) don’t realize that they are being duped by a bunch of bankers into giving up more of their hard earned wealth via carbon credits paid to, guess who?: the BANKS.
Focus on GM foods. GM foods are the real nightmare we all face, and will face in years to come, not climate change; the whole climate change issue is a distraction by globalists to fund there desires for world domination.
bud dingler said,
I make my living as a beekeeper and have for 34 years. This article is BS and all of the comments too.
There is so much misinformation to refute I don’t have the time.
marnelle said,
thank you very much for the news that organic colonies of bees are doing well.
it has made my day. somewhere deep in my soul, in my heart, saddeness and fear
for the bees, for everything and for myself, has been relieved. i feel better.
may all the organic practices in this world be supported and encouraged.
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