Colony Collapse Disorder
 

no not the cellar! Honeybee colonys are dying.

Can we live without the honeybee?
http://www.celsias.com/blog/2007/03/...is-it-heading/

http://www.celsias.com/blog/images/bees.jpg


http://www.celsias.com/blog/images/b..._that_need.gif

I find this frightening but I know that the scientists will figure it out.

Looks like other insects can take over for most crops. I wonder how many pollinators were being displaced by the over-reliance on honeybees? Mobile beekeepers were getting a pretty industrial attitude toward living organisms feeding corn syrup and such. They'll find a more sustainable model and move on.

The colonies are collapsing?!

Oh no!

Goodbye, Australia! Au revoir, Canada! And good riddance, America!




...oh wait, you meant bees.

I hope so. You think that's a possibility?



I think I will move to Mexico where they only use poop as fertilizer so the bees might live and I can build a house on 50,000. to 100,000 dollars.
I'll grow my own fruit. Let the aliens have and work their gentically altered crops that are killing the bees. ( I guess that's one of the reasons the bees are dying)

It appears to be a virus or a mite.
The Sons 'O Bees will be tougher to kill.

The Sons 'O Bees!!!!!!

:D

In places where wild populations still exist it should develop that way, but matching crops to pollenators will be hit or miss. It probably depends a lot on undeveloped land being adjacent to the farms. Looking around here, we have a lot of different bees.

Is this not the second thread about this?? 1st was by, maybe Kitsune???sp from FL

More like third, I think...

The problem is the other pollinators usually take more than just pollen/nectar, so they spray heavily for them.

sorry for the repeat busterb but unless I know the title of the thread the search function fails.

Since then, new clues have developed. For example, Hackenberg was one of the first to call attention to this colony collapse. From a source long since forgotten: Previous discussion was Bee's disappearing that began 7 Apr 2007.

thanks tw

Colonies face extinction
The disease is still a mystery and still devastating hives. Let's hope we identify the pathogen soon and devise an effective treatment.

Is it Bacillus thuringiensis?