Without Bees there are only 4 years left
Posted by jonouk at 11:12, 05 Aug 2007So said Einstein apparently, and that is a worrying thought, especially as the Bees in question, the honey Bees, are seeing as much as 70% decline in the USA. The reason? Well in short, don't know. There has been a call to the scientists and specialists of the world to try and ascertain the cause. It is apparent world wide, predominately in the western first world. In the UK it is known as Marie Celeste syndrome, in the US collapsed colony syndrome, Bees are responsible for up to one quarter of the worlds food production through the pollination process, the demise of the honey Bee is potentialy catastrophic. The phenomenen has been witnessed, hives are abandoned en masse, one eye witness stated, the bees crawled out, not flew, and spread across the garden lawn, trembling and in distress, they all died. There was nothing the Bee keeper could do, but stand and watch in utter dismay. There are many theories, increase in pesticides, genetically altered crops, even a parasitic mite is under suspicion. The frenzy of erecting radio masts for wider communications on every other hillock is an interesting suggestion, RF inteference normally unheard by the human ear, is easily detected by the Bees sensitive receptors, some keepers think these waves are bombarding the Bees into a state of shock, and insanity. Can Daily Grail readers shed any light onto this serious problem, perhaps with the wealth of knowledge on this site, there may be parallels drawn from other scenarios that may be pertinent.
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7 February 2005
1 year 8 weeks
there are a few bees.. I have been watching other pollinators. The Western Carpenter bee has been quite busy pollinating. Some wasps do as well. It is a great concern to see how few honey bees there are.
I hope they do narrow down what is causing it. I fear it might be a combination of factors that might be difficult to eradicate. I am planting more flowers to attract them. I hope that helps the ones that remain to maintain a healthy colony.
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marissa
28 June 2006
6 days 20 hours
Jonouk
But, bees are not the only polinaters, and, in that regard, I think that other polinaters will pick-up the slack!
Something else is worrying me! Bees, like other insects and animals, are sensitive to imminate natural disasters and global changes. Take Sumatra for example, all wild life moved well away from the shore before the tidal wave struck a few years ago. Could the bees have been tramatized by a premenation of a potentially world wide catastrophy? Besides looking for what tramatized the bees, I think that we ought be observing other animal behavior!
What do you think?
cnnek
{You Can Teach People How To Think Or What To Think; But, You Can't Do Both! It Is Better To Teach People How To Think!!!}
10 August 2004
17 hours 9 min
We should always observe animal behaviour - it tells us much. Not just animals per se, but birds, ants and other insects. In fact, we should be much more observant of our habitat, and that includes clouds and the sky also. Nature has advance warnings for us on all manner of things if we would just open our eyes and look.
Regards, Kathrinn
22 November 2004
3 days 37 min
There is some more information about this at Texas A&M University. This site also has information about the africanized honey bee problem. Doesn't say if those two are related. The africanized honey bees invaded the southern US some years ago.
The FAQ there says, among other things, that seasonal die-off has been observed occasionally for a long time (100 years), and it is not known whether the current problem is related to these other observations.
I somehow doubt that RF has to do with this. It's not sound. Do bees have radio receptors? The cell phone frequencies give you wave lengths of 15 centimeters (for 2GHz) and more for lower frequencies (see this site.) This is considerably larger than the bees I have seen. So to me the RF looks like the least likely explanation. If however bees really do have radio receivers, that would be very interesting - what would they be for in the natural environment?
I remember reading that bees can see the polarization of sunlight, and supposedly use that for orientation on cloudy days. But that is a much shorter wavelength. I don't think the sun is very bright in the RF wavelengths used by the cell phone systems.
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