DISQUS

The Washington Independent: Troubled Bee Colonies Go it Alone

  • johnrove · 1 year ago
    "Schafer added that his department has
  • henwhisperer · 1 year ago
    Here's a wakeup call. How about talking about Monsanto and GMO (genetically modified) pollen. I am a beekeeper, have read up on CDC. It is my belief that the DNA from the GMO is jumping species barrier into the yeast that resides in the bees gut and causing the bees to lose their navigation senses. Just another one of Monsanto's dirty secrets.
  • wildhoneybee · 1 year ago
    This is an interesting theory, could you please go to PlanBeeCentral.com Michael Schacker's website and contact him about this? Thanks!
  • tomglaury · 1 year ago
    Here is a great one:

    The USDA, according to the Fresno County office of the Farm Service Agency has determined that pollination services are NOT AGRICULTURE, therefore FSA will not consider pollination income for the purposes of obtaining disaster assistance!!!??? NO help for the beekeeper
  • adamburke · 1 year ago
    Organic beekeepers seem to have little or no CCD :

    "...no one in the ORGANIC beekeeping world, including commercial beekeepers, is reporting colony collapse... "

    [from an email by Sharon Labchuk, a longtime environmental activist and part-time organic beekeeper from Prince Edward Island]

    For more of Lubchak's theories on the cause of CCD see: http://www.bushfarms.com/bees.htm
  • packetfire · 1 year ago
    The comment about "organic beekeepers" is utterly misinformed.

    One need look no further than the journal "Science" for refutation.

    "Pesticides can