Bee update ~ true cause ??

[Guest guest]

~I'm moving to Australia! I'm not buying this immunity disease. I believe it has

to do with frequency of some kind. Hopefully we find the reason so we can cure

it. Perhaps we can all focus on healing energy as well as to focus our beliefs

to calm the negativity that are killing our honeybees. (thought becomes

reality)

 

 

Australian bees in high demand

The World Today - Monday, 7 May , 2007

 

To a booming Australian export, not minerals but bees.

 

Australian bee exporters are finding they can't send enough Aussie bees to the

United States, where local bees are mysteriously disappearing by the hundreds of

thousands.

 

Research in the US has found that something is attacking the local bees' immune

system, rendering the bees vulnerable to any contagion. Australian bees have

been coming to the rescue, trying to make up the numbers to pollinate many of

America's crops.

 

But now the new arrivals are also dying, as North America Correspondent Kim

Landers reports.

 

KIM LANDERS: The flight of the bees is proving a mystery. An estimated one

quarter of America's 2.5-million bee colonies has been lost. The US Department

of Agriculture says bees have been vanishing from 22 states, and no one really

knows why.

 

It means commercial beekeepers, like George Hansen from Oregon, have increased

the number of Australian bees they're importing. He says the bees come on

packages, put on a flight from Sydney to San Francisco.

 

GEORGE HANSEN: Somewhere between 25,000 and 50,000 per Spring have been brought

into California from Australia and these are three or four pounds each.

 

KIM LANDERS: How much does a package of bees cost?

 

GEORGE HANSEN: Three pound package with a queen is somewhere between $110 and

$120 and a four-pound package with a queen is somewhere between $130 and $140.

 

KIM LANDERS: Jeff Anderson is another commercial beekeeper who moves between

California and Minnesota. He has used Aussie bees for the past two years, but

doesn't think they're immune from the mysterious colony collapse.

 

JEFF ANDERSON: I'm fairly suspicious that it is directly tied with this colony

collapse, because what we noticed on our first shipment in this year, we

installed 385 packages and - which is a full shipment - and within three days we

probably lost between 75 and 80 per cent of the field bees out of those packages

that we installed.

 

KIM LANDERS: So, what do you think is behind it?

 

JEFF ANDERSON: Research people out at Penn State said that when they dissect

bees that have died from colony collapse, that it appears their immune system

has just totally gone to pieces. It's like they just lost their immune system

and anything will kill them.

 

KIM LANDERS: Bees are needed to pollinate about 90 varieties of fruit and

vegetables grown in the US, including apples, avocados and blueberries.

 

Jeff Anderson says the disappearance of the American bees is not the only reason

why Australian bees are being used.

 

JEFF ANDERSON: There's a couple other factors that are creating a need for

Australian bees. The almond industry here in the United States, particularly in

California I should say, has done a major expansion and we're short on

pollinators.

 

We'll soon be short on pollinators for that crop, so I think the Australian

package thing is probably here to stay for a while.

 

KIM LANDERS: A few years ago, none of this would have been possible. Beekeepers

say America has only started to import Australian bees thanks to the

Australia-US Free Trade Agreement.

[Guest guest]

I read somewhere recently that the the suspected cause of the decline

of the bee population in the States is due to the proliferation of

mobile phones, in that frequencies (as already mentioned) used by

mobiles are confusing the bees who leave the hive and just disappear,

presumably to die quietly somewhere. Figures of 70-80% of the bee

population disappearing were being bandied about. Interestingly, the

same problem seems to be happening in Europe, although not to the same

extent - 40 - 50%, I thik.

 

Some might say that bees dying isn't that big a deal, but consider what

bees do - they pollinate everything: wheat, apples, tomatoes, etc.

Einstein said that if the bees went, humans would be dead in four years.

 

Such is the cost of technology!

[Guest guest]

I read somewhere recently that the the suspected cause of the decline

of the bee population in the States is due to the proliferation of

mobile phones, in that frequencies (as already mentioned) used by

mobiles are confusing the bees who leave the hive and then just

disappear, presumably to die quietly somewhere. Figures of 70-80% of

the bee population disappearing were being bandied about.

Interestingly, the same problem seems to be happening in Europe,

although not to the same extent - 40 - 50%, I think.

 

Some might say that bees dying isn't that big a deal, but consider what

bees do - they pollinate everything: wheat, apples, tomatoes, etc.

Einstein said that if the bees went, humans would be dead in four years.

 

Such is the cost of technology!

[Guest guest]

Some of my colleagues have begun to work on this issue.

Some of the Bees are not returning to the Hives,but are starting to go

underground.

This is like the ants who shift the nest days before a flood,or they build a

year ahead in places to survive extreme weather.

 

Another idea is that cell phones and all kinds of radio waves are disturbing the

bees so they cannot find the way home.

In other words the ''grids and forcefields are being disrupted.

This figures too as we know some birds are starting to it difficult to find

direction too.

Love to all Igor.

 

 

: tconroy: Wed,

9 May 2007 09:22:24 +0000 Re: Bee update

~ true cause ??

 

 

 

 

I read somewhere recently that the the suspected cause of the decline of the bee

population in the States is due to the proliferation of mobile phones, in that

frequencies (as already mentioned) used by mobiles are confusing the bees who

leave the hive and just disappear, presumably to die quietly somewhere. Figures

of 70-80% of the bee population disappearing were being bandied about.

Interestingly, the same problem seems to be happening in Europe, although not to

the same extent - 40 - 50%, I thik.Some might say that bees dying isn't that big

a deal, but consider what bees do - they pollinate everything: wheat, apples,

tomatoes, etc. Einstein said that if the bees went, humans would be dead in four

years.Such is the cost of technology!

 

 

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