11th November, 2008
To do that we recommend reading Ulrick Warnke’s report, now available in full in English.
ONCE again the Government seems as complacent about the food industry as it is focused on finance.
Posts Tagged ‘ccd’
We must find out why bees are disappearing
Posted by seumasach on November 13, 2008
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If the bees’ future is in danger, so is ours
Posted by seumasach on November 13, 2008
12th november, 2008
If Barack Obama wants to make a vital contribution to the survival of our species on this planet, he should find out what is happening to the bees. Forget about settling the conflicts in the Middle East, or sorting out the world’s financial problems, or cutting CO2 emissions. If the bees disappear, then so will we.
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Plea for more research cash as two billion bees die from rampant disease
Posted by seumasach on November 3, 2008
Interesting that the likes of Lovett spend all their time appealing to the government for money for research, and yet ignore research carried out over the last four decades because it suggests the politically unacceptable conclusion that EM radiation is killing the bees and multiple other species, including, eventually, us.
1st November, 2008
They accused the Government of failing to invest in the research needed to stem diseases and parasites which are now thought to have destroyed one in three bee colonies over the past year.
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Mobile phones may be killing bees and causing human health problems
Posted by smeddum on October 23, 2008
Mobile phones may be killing bees and causing human health problems
• 23 Oct 2008 • euroweekly.news
This report greatly understates the evidence for EMF damage to bees and humans
BEE colonies are disappearing in worrying numbers throughout the world and beekeepers in America, the UK, Scotland, Germany Switzerland, Spain, Portugal and Greece are all seeing their hives vanish. When a hive’s inhabitants suddenly disappear, leaving only queens, eggs and a few immature worker bees, it is known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Usually there is an obvious reason for this, such as illness or attacks from predators. However, there doesn’t seem to be a straightforward answer for the current problem. Many of the beekeepers have also reported that other bees, animals and moths stayed away from the abandoned nests, which is not normal and may indicate a serious problem. Bees are one of the most essential insects on the human food chain. They are the main pollinators of hundreds of crops, nuts, flowers, vegetables and fruits. Albert Einstein once said that, if the bees disappeared, “man would have only four years of life left”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Industrial Nanotech Enters Agricultural Market With Solution to Multibillion Dollar Crop Crisis
Posted by smeddum on October 17, 2008
It remains to seen whether this product actually addresses Colony Collapse Disorder or merely some of the common problems that threaten bees such as the Varroa mite, and various bacterial infections, as the article tends to suggest. There is no discussion of the cause of CCD or electromagnetism. Those of us who have been following this crisis will hope that by some incredible piece of serendipity, that this coating offers a solution, but from a distance it seems highly unlikely
Industrial Nanotech, Inc. (Pink Sheets: INTK), an emerging global leader in nanotechnology, announced today that the Company has launched a new patented product for the agricultural market which has been proven to provide a solution to the growing crisis that threatens 15 billion dollars worth of crops in the US and billions more worldwide. Failure to halt this decline has the potential to decimate agriculture and triple food prices. Potential revenue to Industrial Nanotech for this product is over 2.5 billion dollars US. Read the rest of this entry »
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Do worry, bees unhappy-Two authors plead for habitat preservation as they contemplate the crisis in our hives
Posted by seumasach on August 26, 2008
“Schacker says there’s a proven fix for CCD. When the French government stubbornly ignored the initial findings against imidacloprid, irate beekeepers protested and the use of that insecticide was suspended. When farmers stopped using imidacloprid on their crops, the bees that pollinated those same crops returned in great numbers. Colony collapse disorder averted.”
Great efforts are being made to justify the latest “official cause ” of CCD i.e. pesticides, in ways which are , perhaps, not entirely truthful. Compare the above claim with these below:
“Selon les derniers chiffres de l’AFSSA (Agence Francaise de Securite Sanitaire des Aliments) a paraître dans le prochain magazine Valeurs Vertes, les colonies d’abeilles sont en partie decimees dans 14 departements francais. Deux ans apres l’imbroglio politico-mediatique sur les abeilles et l’interdiction de pesticides, les abeilles meurent toujours.”(16th July, 2006, futura-sciences)
[According to the latest figures of the AFSSA(French Health and Safety Agency) to be published in the next issue of Valeurs Vertes, bee colonies are in serious decline in 14 departnents. Two years after the media controversy over bees and the banning of pesticides, the bees are still dying.](futura-sciences)
“The banning in 2005 of two potent pesticides used on sunflower and corn crops, suspected of killing off the bees, appeared to have stemmed the massive die offs and reversed nearly a decade of declining honey harvests.
But end-of-winter mortality rates have shot up once again, with up to 60 percent of some hives missing in action.’(The Peninsula)
A Spring Without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply
by Michael Schacker
The Lyons Press,
292 pages, $27.50
I live in a rural Saskatchewan town so anachronistically hooked on Roundup that almost every property bears the scorched earth of its handiwork. Our town administrator even pens a bossy column in our local newspaper every spring that urgently reminds us of our civic duty: kill all dandelions! Those who don’t maintain their lawns (and gardens) risk fines and scorn.
My eco-friendly partner and I hand-weed our dandelions and seed wildflowers (weeds) right on our front lawn. During our first summer here, we were cited for non-compliant long grass and weeds and the town administrator threatened to give us a fine. We cut the taller grass in the back, but refused to buy pesticides or pull the wildflowers. Guess whose garden is abundant with native bees, birds, bats, butterflies and wasps?
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Healthy Honey Bees Is Goal of Multi-Institutional Research Team
Posted by seumasach on August 23, 2008
“There could be a lot of things that make bees forget where they live and not return to the hive,” Hunt said.
He seemingly forgot to mention the most obvious one, EM radiation which has been known to have a disorientating effect on bees, and other species, since the 1970s when Warnke and others began their studies on this question.
20th August, 2008
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 20 (AScribe Newswire) — A combination of pathogens, pesticides and parasites may underlie such a massive disappearance of honeybees that agricultural production may be threatened, says a Purdue University researcher.
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Unwelcome visitors cause havoc for bees
Posted by seumasach on August 19, 2008
“While Lovett says a disease being carried by the Varrao is a likely cause of the disappearing bees, he can’t be absolutely sure. “Nobody has carried out the work to see if it is these mites,” he says.”
This statement is completely untrue. Here is how VanEngelsdorp, acting apiarist for the state of Pennsylvania was reported on the varroa hypothesis:
“VanEngelsdorp, a sandy-bearded 37-year-old, quickly eliminated the most obvious suspects: Varroa and tracheal mites, which have occasionally wrought damage on hives since the 1980s.
At the state lab in Harrisburg, Pa., VanEngelsdorp checked bee samples from Pennsylvania and Georgia. He washed bees with soapy water to dislodge Varroa mites and cut the thorax of the bees to look for tracheal mites; he found that the number of mites was not unusually high.”
Here is the German scientist Ulrich Warnke:
“The disturbing phenomenon is presently predominantly attributed to the Varroa mite in newspapers and periodicals. It remains uncontested that there are such connections. Yet plausible arguments have been put forward explaining that the mite attack also occurs as a result of previous damage to the bees’ immune system due to electromagnetic fields. ”
He goes on to point out that bees affected by Varroa would be found dead just outside the hive rather than disappearing as in the case of CCD.
Last years much-vaunted Penn State University investigation under Diane Cox-Foster also appears to have ruled out Varroa:
“In the course of the investigation all previous hypothesis had been ruled out. As one of the investigators put it: “the only candidate left standing was, in fact, IAPV.”(5)
“Other viruses and Nosema parasites had been suggested as the cause of CCD, but the researchers found that those pathogens appear in both CCD and non-CCD samples.”https://inthesenewtimes.com/2008/05/15/the-disappearing-bees-ccd-and-electromagnetic-radiation/
Varroa is also inconsistent with CCD’s status as a mystery since as HESE have pointed out
“Infestations such as the varroa mite can be tested for quickly and easily, and could confirm this as the current cause, but this has not been reported this time.”
We can conclude that we don’t need £8 million to find out whether or not it is Varroa.
Rachel Oliver
With rising energy prices and the global biofuel rush already putting pressure on food prices, more news that some countries’ food supplies are being threatened from other corners is never welcome. But new research from the British Beekeeping Association (BBKA) released last week seemed to promise exactly that.
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No British Honey By Christmas As Bees Suffer
Posted by seumasach on July 29, 2008
Remember that the British authorities still deny the presence of CCD in Britain and are, therefore, able to atribute the virtual elimination of the bee to the varroa mite. The reality is ,of course, that CCD is present, as has been widely reported by beekeepers and that varroa is not a credible explanation.
See The disappearing bees: CCD and electromagnetic radiation
29th July, 2008
ENGLISH honey will run out by Christmas because pests have decimated the honey bee population, shoppers were warned last night.
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Natural News “debunks” CCD
Posted by seumasach on July 26, 2008
The idea that pesticides cause CCD is fashionable now that everything else has been ruled out leaving only the horrible spectre of admitting the life-destroying role of the mobile telecommunications networks, so dear to the consumer, the military-industrial complex and the intelligence services. However, there are problems with this thesis. As the Canadian Honey Council puts it:
“To the beekeeper, the most obvious sign of pesticide poisoning is the presence of an exceptional number of dead bees in front of the hives.”
But the defining feature of CCD is precisely that dead bees are not found near to the hives.
One would also not expect pesticides to wipe out bees in remotes areas like the highlands of Scotland as reported here nor to wipe out wild bees before colonies specifically used for crop pollination.
A good try, and rigorously politically correct, but CCD remains a mystery until one starts looking at the role of EM radiation not only in wiping out bees, but also butterflies, moths, beetles, flies, bats, small birds, migratory birds, all the way up to, in the last analysis, our good selves.
Colony Collapse Disorder Debunked: Pesticides Cause Bee Deaths
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 by: Heidi Stevenson
(NaturalNews) The great mystery of bee deaths has been solved. Colony Collapse Disorder is poisoning with a known insect neurotoxin. Clothianidin, a pesticide manufactured by Bayer, has been clearly linked to die offs in Germany and France.
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Honey bee becoming endangered species
Posted by smeddum on July 20, 2008
By Diana Royce
Published: 17 July, 2008
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 »
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In These New Times 