Why bees are dissapearing - Scientific article!

[umbrex]

This is the best explanation ive seen so far:

http://www.metatech.org/07/bees_caus..._disorder.html

Enjoy.

[hagbard_celine]

This subject gets me down. I don't want to live in a world without bees.

But this is slightly less depressing than other theories.

[umbrex]

Originally Posted by hagbard_celine

This subject gets me down. I don't want to live in a world without bees.

But this is slightly less depressing than other theories.

Get your head up, thats exactly what the article is telling:

This has happened before and is a part of the solar cycle

Love & light - Umbrex

[hagbard_celine]

Originally Posted by umbrex

Get your head up, thats exactly what the article is telling:

This has happened before and is a part of the solar cycle

Love & light - Umbrex

Much appreciated, Umbrex. Bees have survived cataclysms in the past; why shouldn't they survive this one? The same as polar bears.

Did you know that honey is impossible to synthesize?

[umbrex]

Originally Posted by hagbard_celine

Much appreciated, Umbrex. Bees have survived cataclysms in the past; why shouldn't they survive this one? The same as polar bears.

Did you know that honey is impossible to synthesize?

Exactly

And reading about all that quantummechanics and NMR it is of no surprise to me at all, if u can't synthesize honey. Seems like bees are much, much more complicated then we know

[ho1ogram]

G'day umbrex, my partner keeps bees (anywhere from two to six hives at a time. She joins and splits the hives according to their needs) and I've been mentioning these disappearing bees to her that I've read about on other threads. She hadn't seen or heard any evidence about it from other bee keepers, including the state inspector (We're in Victoria Australia) So this jumped out at me from the article...

...The smaller beekeepers tend to do things more naturally. So far, they haven't had the problem of CCD."

If it aint broke don't fix it. Mother nature aint broke... the human mindset on the other hand...
Thanks for the info. Bees are amazing.

[eyedontbelieveu]

Why bees are dissapearing

They aren't disappearing where I live. To me this is another non-story. None of us yet completely grasp the evolutionary process.

[tru3]

Originally Posted by eyedontbelieveu

They aren't disappearing where I live. To me this is another non-story. None of us yet completely grasp the evolutionary process.

exactly. we'll find a dozen ways to screw up, and it could be any one of them or a combo....

Lusby has a hunch the disorder is the result of a number of factors, including the use of pesticides, bee-growth formulas, artificial food supplements, breeding for size, inbreeding — all or some of which may make them susceptible to mites, viruses and fungi — and maybe even some strange side effects from feeding on genetically modified crops.
Breeding for size is a major factor, Lusby believes. She says the commercial honeybees are now too large to feed on some of the very plants that historically may have given them immunity to diseases and parasites. They're simply too big to get into those plant's flowers, she says.

"We're putting them on trucks and taking them halfway across the country. We're stressing them in almost a feedlot situation, feeding them protein supplements. We're stressing them pretty good. And that doesn't happen with Africans."

or none of them.

How could the bee know the position of the sun? At that time he was studying the bee dance on a comb placed horizontally. Previous experiments had proven conclusively that bees used the sun as a compass. He could even rotate at will the dance by replacing the sun with a lamp. If the horizontal comb was covered and illuminated by diffuse light, the dances were disoriented. But somehow they became oriented again if the bee could see a small patch of blue sky. As hard as it was to believe at the time, Frisch concluded that the bee could see the polarization pattern of the sky! Later, other researchers discovered many other animals sensitive to polarized light (eyes), some of which could use it for navigation, as the bee does. But this capacity was discovered in honeybees first because they gave away their secret through their dance language.