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Is the Agency Hiding Colony Collapse Disorder Information?

Posted by smeddum on August 20, 2008

Is the Agency Hiding Colony Collapse Disorder Information?
NRDC Forced to Sue to Get Public Records on Bee Mystery commondreams

” The first finding, as explained, is formulated thus by Ulrich Warnke:
Other causes are also discussed, which aim to explain the disappearance of the bees:
Single-crop farming, pesticides, the Varroa mite, mobile apiaries, corroded seeds, too
severe winters, genetically modified plants. It remains uncontested that these also
cause problems. Yet, the fact that for the last two to three years bee death has
appeared rather suddenly and spread across countries, can be explained convincingly
by none of the above mentioned causes. If the bees simply became excessively
weakened and ill, they would have to perish in or in front of the beehive. Yet, in the
case of this particular phenomenon, no sick bees are to be found. (p. 13) ” link below

The reports that no sick bees are to be found outside the nest runs so contrary to the pesticide experience of beekeepers that it ought to be dismissed as the cause of CCD . Pesticides are not friends to the bees and do kill them but the damage that they do is evident in front of the nest. Everything that points to EMF radiation is not even considered by those who catch on to the pesticide threat to the bees.
Officially, the reason given by the USDA that “areas with no cell phone coverage still showed CCD” but they gave no parameters for this decision. Cell phones were also described as “low priority” for further investigation. For instance, it is not reported as a given that bees travel far, beyond 7 kilometers, also what is unclear is the extend and influence of the global communication system known as HAARP. has on electrosmog. There is certainly more room to investigate this phenonomen if the evidence we have given on this website is not sufficient.

WASHINGTON – August 18 – The Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit today to uncover critical information that the US government is withholding about the risks posed by pesticides to honey bees. NRDC legal experts and a leading bee researcher are convinced that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has evidence of connections between pesticides and the mysterious honey bee die-offs reported across the country. The phenomenon has come to be called “colony collapse disorder,” or CCD, and it is already proving to have disastrous consequences for American agriculture and the $15 billion worth of crops pollinated by bees every year. Read the rest of this entry »

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