Hearing of this Great and Concernable Matter lately, -I've decided to make something of a Point, -of seeing how my Local, Wild Bees are Doing!

I'm Happy to report that my Local, (West PA, USA), ordinary Honeybees, -seem to be doing Quite Normal and All Right! Here on the White Clovered Grass, -of a typical Sunny, Summer, Afternoon!

One of the Causes of Concern, -concerning Honey or other Bees, -has been recent Arrivals on the Scene, -of New Mite Pests and the like! In addition to the Highly Destructive Varroa Mites and such. _themselves I think New Arrivals on the Scene, -Not all that terribly long ago! (I just could be Incorrect on that one though!, -I am somewhat Foggy on this!).

I've also had a Yen to sometime Try my Hand at Beekeeping! Now and over the last number of years!

This was interesting, and cleared up a lot on this issue for me:

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mvanishingbees.htm

(This is a site I have read for years and always found to be very well-researched and seemingly free of bias.)

Dave

Bigmbogo,

Thanks for the link. Once again the sky ISN'T falling.

-Blast

Kind of makes me wonder what the next big media-driven ecoscare is going to be.

Thanks for identifying this website. I've been on it for 20 minutes and found it to be addictive. I also like The Junk Science Webpage for clearing up nonsensical media reports.

That was an interesting website, thanks.

I love his sixth point especially:

Sixth, it's never a good idea to trust what the media are telling you.

That turns out to be good advice, well beyond the bee issue

Old thread, New Theory.

Old thread… Another potential lead.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/09/06/bee.disorder/index.html

Just watched a documentary on the show "Nature" tonight that focused on CCD. According to the shows website:



http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/bees/update.html

Great show. Anyway, the most interesting part of the program was a segment about an area in China where all of the bees had been wiped out by pesticide use so they now manually pollinate their pair trees one blossom at a time using a stick with chicken feathers attached to the end. Man, talk about a labor intensive.

"... an area in China where all of the bees had been wiped out by pesticide use so they now manually pollinate their pair trees one blossom at a time ..."

But pesicides and herbicides and chemical fertilizers are all designed to make the farmers' lives easier, don't you know??? Ask Dow or Monsanto, they'll tell you.

Sue