At last, (since April 2007)the connection between electrosmog and CCD is getting some recognition in the UK press, albeit inside a local paper.
EAST Sutherland Beekeepers emerged from last winter to some very nasty discoveries.
Early checks for signs of life and activity in beehives were not encouraging and when at last the weather allowed them to open up the hives it was even worse than anticipated. Many beekeepers found that their colonies were dead or on their last legs. Read the rest of this entry »
Damien Enright says the decline of the bee may spell the end of our survival
LAST weekend, my brother-in-law, a semi-retired west Cork farmer, who spends more time with his horses than his cows, was telling me how his father and their neighbours used to attract the swarms of wild bees that often passed over the fields in summer. Read the rest of this entry »
The Press and Journal
MP demands urgent action to protect bees
Published: 01/07/2008
One wonders how long they can keep up the official story that CCD is unexplained.
” Dr. rer. nat. Ulrich Warnke, a biological scientist at Saarland University, can demonstrate
this on a firm basis in his most recent publication Bees, Birds and People, The
Destruction of Nature as a result of ‘Electrosmog’. His findings are the result of his own
research over a decade, a superior overview of the state of international research,
however, above all the realisation of verifiable mechanisms which have a disorientating
and damaging effect on the bees. ” Source
The UK Government has been called on to do more to combat the risks facing Scottish bees. Danny Alexander, MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, yesterday tabled an early day motion calling for action. Read the rest of this entry »
Yet another article that downplays the role of electromagnetism,(see our right sidebar). However, the authors stress the danger of the bee’s extinction is to humanity
The mountains of southern Sichuan in China are covered in pear trees.
Every April, they are home to a strange sight: thousands of people holding bamboo sticks with chicken feathers attached to the end, clambering among the blossom-laden branches.
Closer inspection reveals that children, parents and even grandparents are pollinating the trees by hand.
Key to life: Bees pollinate our crops and without them we’d have seriously limited food supplies Read the rest of this entry »
Marie Celeste Syndrome is not a virus; it is a condition whereby bees simply disappear from the hive without apparent reason. This would indeed be a mystery but for the well-documented fact that EM radiation, now everywhere around us, both disorientates bees, preventing them from returning to the hive, and weakens their immune system as it does for all life. But because powerful forces do not wish us to make this connection they are using all their influence to prevent this becoming public knowledge. As a consequence, scientists are using every kind of contorted logic to make this syndrome appear compatible with traditional aflictions of bees such as, pesticides, mites, viruses etc.. To our knowledge none of these either singlely or combination causes bees to disappear from the hive: the dead bees would be found in the vicinity of the hive. Beekeepers seem to be aware of this: here, for example, is Jerry Hayes former president of the Apiary Inspectors of America:
“With affected hives, there are no dead or dying bees on the ground as we see with pesticide exposures or other diseases. No one can explain this behavior.”
“With affected hives, there are no dead or dying bees on the ground as we see with pesticide exposures or other diseases. No one can explain this behavior.”
Jun 16, 2008 9:44 AM, By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In 2006, after honeybees abandoned hives in massive numbers, beekeepers began sounding an alarm that gained volume in 2007 when the mass exodus and die-off of bees picked up speed. Researchers named the mysterious malady colony collapse disorder (CCD). Read the rest of this entry »
This video is testimony to the frivolity and light-mindedness which informs the British approach to this issue. It talks of losses rising to 12% of colonies, a figure scarcely above normal winter losses. Then the figure is 20%: still hardly enough to justify the claim that bees might die out. Other sources put the losses at 50-80%: that would be an emergency and fits in with the observation that there are few bees, if any, to be seen. It looks like the British Beekeepers Association are trying to play this all down and, if so, that would be a highly irresponsible response to a crisis which threatens us all. The British government says there is no CCD (formerly, the very British “Marie Celeste Syndrome”): what are their sources if not the beekeepers themselves who have already reported CCD .
A complete mystery, something “which does not seem to match anything in the literature” or the simple varroa mite? GM crops, pesticides or the Israeli virus? All these leads have been followed up to no avail: the only one the authorities have not, and will not, investigate is that of EM radiation with its, already established, affect on the orientation of bees and on their immune system.
Walter Haefeker is a man who is used to painting grim scenarios. He sits on the board of directors of the German Beekeepers Association (DBIB) and is vice president of the European Professional Beekeepers Association. And because griping is part of a lobbyist’s trade, it is practically his professional duty to warn that “the very existence of beekeeping is at stake.” Read the rest of this entry »
The humble bee finds itself at the centre of controversy as scientists seek to the respond to their disturbing disappearance which is now making itself felt as far afield as Taiwan.
We have had recantations, and denunciations within the scientific community; for the most part, they and the media, at least in the USA, throw in their lot with a theory that a fungus, Nosema ceranae, is responsible. This in preference to the politically incorrect notion that human agency, via microwave emissions from mobile phone masts and satellites, may be responsible. Unfortunately a government agency has made short shrift of the fungus theory:
“Government scientists who have been tracking the phenomenon they call Colony Collapse Disorder were skeptical, however, saying the parasite had been an early suspect in the bee die-off but that they had concluded it probably was not responsible.”
Clearly we need an investigation which is prepared to countenance all possibilities.
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