The pollinator crisis is beyond doubt the greatest ecological crisis of our times threatening, as it does, mass starvation, an outcome, unfortunately, not uncongenial to the our neo-Malthusian elite. Is that why “the greens” or the left (remember them?) have nothing at all to say about it? Is that why the mainstream media is absolutely silent- their very own silent spring? Is that why the work of scientists like Ulrich Warnke is ignored and the investigation is kept in house, entrusted to the same old names, most of them from Penn State University, who are assiduously leading us nowhere?
Having previously ruled out pesticides, not without good reason, they have now ruled it in. Perhaps they understand, after all, the need for some kind of cause, that a combination of none causes isn’t good enough. As long as they don’t mention EM radiation, of course.
So here we are again with the pesticide theory. The hives are steeped in them apparently.In CCD the bees are not found dead in or around the hive. Our researchers explain this by claiming that
” sickened foragers probably die before they get home.”
If they are disorientated by the pesticide to the extent that they can’t get home how does the pesticide get into the hive? If they do get home to leave the pesticide traces why aren’t dead bees found there?
Oh well. Back to the drawing board and a new appeal for more research funding.
This years losses are again terrible but the “experts” continue to serve up nonsense and time is running out for us.
See also:
ITNT Archive: Disappearing Bees
Janet Raloff
Science News
21st March, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO For years the news has been the same: Honey bees are being hammered by some mysterious environmental plague that has a name — colony collapse disorder – but no established cause. A two-year study now provides evidence indicting one likely group of suspects: pesticides. It found “unprecedented levels” of mite-killing chemicals and crop pesticides in hives across the United States and parts of Canada.
Read the rest of this entry »