Honeybees Disappearing, Crops Threatened

[zengrifter]

Bee Extinction On A Rise, Fruit And Vegetable Industry Threatened

February 27, 2007 1:30 p.m. EST
Ihuoma Ezeh - All Headline News

Visalia, CA (AHN) - Beekeepers are facing a career shock as 24 states throughout the country reporting bee disappearance at a startling rate. The shocking loss highlights the critical importance of honeybees in the fruit and vegetable food chain.

...more - http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7006587883

[zengrifter]

Bees - Biological Geiger Counters
International Medical Veritas Association

Approximately one-third of the typical American’s diet (primarily the healthiest part) is directly or indirectly the result of honey bee pollination.

On their travels, they transfer pollen from plant to plant, flower to flower, fertilizing the blossoms and allowing them to set fruit. This ancient partnership of pollinator and plant is essential to life as we know it.

One-third of the food we eat comes from crops that need animal pollinators, a role often filled by bees but sometimes by butterflies, beetles, birds, or bats.

The New York Times and other major media sources have recently published scary articles about a catastrophe in the making, about a disaster that will soon have a direct impact on our collective stomachs. In 24 states throughout the country, beekeepers are getting the shock of their lives seeing hundreds of millions of their bees literally disappearing.

Beekeepers go out to open their hives and find them empty. Bees are flying off in search of pollen and nectar and simply not returning to their homes, they vanish without a trace. Researchers say the bees are dying in the fields, perhaps becoming exhausted or simply disoriented and eventually falling victim to the cold. Researchers have labeled this affliction “colony collapse disorder.”

Farmers across North America have been blitzing their fields with millions of tons of herbicides and pesticides for decades. And since the mid to late 1990's massive numbers of genetically engineered crops have been planted.

...more - http://www.healthtruthrevealed.com/f...&&page=article

[zengrifter]

This may indicate a STRONG comodity futures play! zg

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Mysterious beehive disorder might inflate
honey, fruit prices

Friday, April 06, 2007By Jeff Alexanderand Matt Vande Bunte

Chronicle News Service
With this year's growing season about to get under way, some farmers are fretting over the decline of honeybees used to pollinate crops.

Fruit growers are wondering if a mysterious disease that has wiped out thousands of bees in several states means there might not be enough honeybees to pollinate flowering trees and bushes.

...more - http://www.mlive.com/news/chronicle/...680.xml&coll=8

[WumpieJr]

This kind of thing scares me. You should also check out the rise of this particular type of insect that eats and kills pine trees. Apparently due to climate change, these insects are surviving at higher altitudes than they were previously able do and as a result, thousand and thousands of acres of rocky mountain forest are being killed. The thing is that the "dead" trees don't fall right away. They stand for a few years and slowly brown and stop producing needles. Then, eventually, the cast majority of the trees in an entire area will turn up completely dead. Just imagine the forest fires that can result from that. Just losing that volume of trees can be devastating as well.

It surprises some people to know that, because if the sheer volume of forests, North America doesn't produce more carbon dioxide than its trees can take up. It is nearly "carbon neutral." However, a massive hit to tree population like that could turn us around fast.

[zengrifter]

Originally Posted by WumpieJr

You should also check out the rise of this particular type of insect that eats and kills pine trees.

It turns out they are not insects (cephalopods) -
The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

[WumpieJr]

Insects... flying octopus-squirrels... whatever ^_^

[zengrifter]

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man."
- Albert Einstein

[bj bob]

As plain as day. Since this mysterious disappearance of honeybees is eminating primarily in the San Joaquin Valley, and especially around the Visalia area, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to deduce that this has to be the work of CIPHER.

[zengrifter]

CIPHER THIS! zg

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Ecological Apocalypse: Why Are All The Bees Dying?
GM, toxic chemicals, chemtrails destroying eco-system, threatening very survival of humanity

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Tuesday, April 10, 2007

The alarming decline in bee populations across the United States and Europe represents a potential ecological apocalypse, an environmental catastrophe that could collapse the food chain and wipe out humanity. Who and what is behind this flagrant abuse of the eco-system?

...more - http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles...7beesdying.htm

[zengrifter]

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

It seems like the plot of a particularly far-fetched horror film. But some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause massive food shortages, as the world's harvests fail.

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 theory is that radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees' navigation systems, preventing the famously homeloving species from finding their way back to their hives. Improbable as it may seem, there is now evidence to back this up.

...more - http://news.independent.co.uk/enviro...cle2449968.ece