Comments on: Are Reports of a Global Honeybee Crisis Overblown?

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By: Zub Tenroh

Zub Tenroh — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:52:17 +0000

I say bet the futures market for bee polinated fruits. If the planet is going to hell, why not have a comfortable seat to watch it happen?

By: katwagner

katwagner — Mon, 11 May 2009 06:26:22 +0000

Just tonight on Idaho PBS on the program Outdoor Oregon, they addressed the honeybee problem. An Oregon blueberry farmer said honeybee hives don’t help him much as local bees do most of the pollinating chores and why should he pay big money for honeybee hives? So, Mr. Blueberry Farmer took some of his ground out of production and planted native flowers, shrubs and trees. He said by doing that he got the biggest crop of blueberries ever, and the native bumblebees and other bees are thriving in the native vegetation. A few other scientists said yup, that’s what we all need to do: keep more native plants for the native pollinators. We’re asking European honeybees to do way too much work, poor things.

By: amicus curiae

amicus curiae — Sun, 10 May 2009 13:20:55 +0000

Seeing as Argentina is growing a whole lot of GM Soy, and they use heavy chemicals, their honey, as with Chinas is likely to be of dubious quality.Canadas GM Canola and Corn also poses doubt.
Bayer is being sued over Nictotinamide based chemicals they KNEW would kill bees , along with a whole lot of other beneficial insects and Bats.(see amicus curiae on http://www.Opednews.com) andI write for FARM WARS blog too:-) Amicus there.
Sth Africa has an outbreak of AFB that wasn’t found or reported very quickly, so it will be knocking them around this year at the least.
AFB EFB and CCD all affect native bees, and possibly other species that pollinate. No one has really managed to find that info as they are wild species, and hard to track.
To Nick; robobees would lack the enzymes that bees roduce and add to the nectar to make honey;-0 so regardless of em spitting it back atya! It would still just be nectar and it would ferment. maybe they could pollinate, but? so do mason and other bees, why? would anyone bother really? like GM Plants, all hype but little real value.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:33:53 +0000

Oh, yeah, and the coming advent of microbotics may well obsolete bees – we can have robobees that perfectly pollinate every flower in a crop, not a drop more or less of pollen than is needed.

Of course, I doubt we want robobees puking up honey the way real bees do.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:32:16 +0000

You know, bees are highly intelligent, social animals. Maybe this colony collapse is merely an uprising against bee-slavery. We can’t communicate with them, but they can communicate with others. Maybe they have synergetic hive intelligence. Maybe they’re evolving like Argentine ants, where an from one colony will be accepted by pretty much any other colony – maybe they’re travelling like this and spreading the world about bee oppression and trying to shake off the bourgeoisie ruling class and make a newer, freer world for the bee proletariat!

Or maybe it’s just overcrowding, the same kind that leads to avian flu and swine flu and all the other problems associated with factory farming.

By: bigjohn756

bigjohn756 — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:41:34 +0000

What good is an increase in bees in Canada, Argentina, Spain and China if other heavily populated parts of the world are without? Seems to me like we still have a serious problem to solve here.