Gale Hawkins
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| 15 Apr 2007 05:35 AM |
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Any crop adjusters out there. This has been in the news for weeks now. We can hope Albert Einstein did not know what he was talking about.
Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?
Scientists claim radiation from handsets are to blame for mysterious 'colony collapse' of bees
By Geoffrey Lean and Harriet Shawcross
Published: 15 April 2007
They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by mobile phones and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world - the abrupt disappearance of the bees that pollinate crops. Late last week, some bee-keepers claimed that the phenomenon - which started in the US, then spread to continental Europe - was beginning to hit Britain as well.
The implications of the spread are alarming. Most of the world's crops depend on pollination by bees. Albert Einstein once said that if the bees disappeared, "man would have only four years of life left".
German research has long shown that bees' behaviour changes near power lines.
Now a limited study at Landau University has found that bees refuse to return to their hives when mobile phones are placed nearby. Dr Jochen Kuhn, who carried it out, said this could provide a "hint" to a possible cause….
Dr George Carlo, who headed a massive study by the US government and mobile phone industry of hazards from mobiles in the Nineties, said: "I am convinced the possibility is real."….
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Gale Hawkins
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| 24 Apr 2007 03:24 AM |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070422190612.htm
Honey Bee Die-off Alarms Beekeepers, Crop Growers And Researchers
"During the last three months of 2006, we began to receive reports from commercial beekeepers of an alarming number of honey bee colonies dying in the eastern United States," says Maryann Frazier, apiculture extension associate in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences. "Since the beginning of the year, beekeepers from all over the country have been reporting unprecedented losses. "
This has become a highly significant yet poorly understood problem that threatens the pollination industry and the production of commercial honey in the United States," she says. "Because the number of managed honey bee colonies is less than half of what it was 25 years ago, states such as Pennsylvania can ill afford these heavy losses."
"For instance, the state's $45 million apple crop -- the fourth largest in the country -- is completely dependent on insects for pollination, and 90 percent of that pollination comes from honey bees," Frazier says. "So the value of honey bee pollination to apples is about $40 million."
A detailed, up-to-date report on Colony Collapse Disorder can be found on the Mid-Atlantic Apiculture Research and Extension Consortium Web site at http://maarec.org.
Note: This story has been adapted from a news release issued by Penn State/College Of Agricultural Sciences. |
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Gale Hawkins
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| 03 May 2007 06:19 AM |
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Myths Abound About U.S. Bee Disappearance
So Far Nobody Can Explain The Disappearance Of One Quarter Of The Population, But Theories Abound
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Gale Hawkins
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| 19 Jul 2007 03:37 PM |
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Asian Parasite Killing Western Bees – Scientist
SPAIN: July 19, 2007
MADRID - A parasite common in Asian bees has spread to Europe and the Americas and is behind the mass disappearance of honeybees in many countries, says a Spanish scientist who has been studying the phenomenon for years.
The culprit is a microscopic parasite called nosema ceranae said Mariano Higes, who leads a team of researchers at a government-funded apiculture centre in Guadalajara, the province east of Madrid that is the heartland of Spain's honey industry…. |
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Roy Cupps
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Gale Hawkins
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| 17 Feb 2008 07:57 PM |
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I guess the bee story is still getting news and marketing attention. Putting out a half of a million dollars for the sake of ice cream sounds like it may be serious in the minds of some.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/17/news/companies/bees_icecream/index.htm?postversion=2008021712
Disappearing bees threaten ice cream sellers
Premium maker Haagen-Dazs says vanishing bee colonies in the U.S. could mean fewer flavors and high price
By Parija B. Kavilanz, CNNMoney.com senior writer
February 17 2008: 12:43 PM EST
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Haagen-Dazs is warning that a creature as small as a honeybee could become a big problem for the premium ice cream maker's business....
Haagen-Dazs, which is owned by Nestle, said bees are actually responsible for 40% of its 60 flavors - such as strawberry, toasted pecan and banana split....
Pien said the company is donating $250,000 to both Pennsylvania State University and the University of California, Davis to fund research into the bee colony collapse disorder (CCD)....
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Chuck Deaton
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| 08 Aug 2008 03:25 AM |
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Is Bayer at fault?
http://www.theenvironmentalblog.org/2007/03/clothianidin-neonicotinoid-pesticide.html |
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| We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Kelley Roberson
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| 20 Sep 2008 03:48 AM |
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| Mr Deaton, I am looking for a deal on a new camera, don't have one for sale do you? |
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Mike Kunze
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| 20 Sep 2008 03:56 AM |
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| Must be an inside joke, or I have seriously missed something here.... |
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Chuck Deaton
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| 20 Sep 2008 04:42 AM |
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| Yes, I do. Are you working? Should you find yourself in South Louisiana call me and come on over, I'll put pork in the pressure cooker and make an apple pie. Sweet tea too. On second thought I will give you the camera. |
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| We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle 320 B.C. |
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Steve Ebner
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| 07 Nov 2008 09:28 PM |
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| The bees have gathered in conference in an undisclosed location. They are planning their attack on humankind. They are sick and tired of having their honey stolen by us. |
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Larry Hardin
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| 08 Nov 2008 04:28 AM |
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I think they're over on the coast.
My last jar of honey was kinda salty |
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Sher Kilpatrick
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| 11 Nov 2008 01:46 AM |
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| There not missing............ There at my house in my shop wall. Help yourself, I've got thousands!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Mike Kunze
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| 11 Nov 2008 02:04 AM |
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| Had one crawling up my pant leg the other day. Something happened to it before it happened to me. Survival of the fittest, I think they call it. |
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Chuck Deaton
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| 12 Nov 2008 03:41 AM |
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| Sher, they populated my garage wall thru a small crack in the siding. My friend, Steve, suggested I take a piece of screen wire and make what is essentially a one way valve. Anyway after some fiddling I got it right, the bees could come out but not go back in and eventually the queen came out and they left. I suppose that the honey and comb are still there, but no bees. I caulked the hole. |
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| We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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