DISQUS

DISQUS Hello! The Washington Independent is using DISQUS, a powerful comment system, to manage its comments. Learn more.

Community Page

The Washington Independent

Jump to original thread »
Author

Troubled Bee Colonies Go it Alone

Started by washingtonindependent · 10 months ago

Tom Theobald’s voice quavers with urgency when he talks about honey bees. The small-time commercial beekeeper sounds distressed, even fearful, when he makes predictions about what will happen to his bees, and indeed his business, next season. He sounds unmistakably angry.  %3 ... Continue reading »

6 comments

  • johnrove

    1 year ago

    "Schafer added that his department has
    reply
  • 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.
    reply
  • wildhoneybee

    8 months ago

    This is an interesting theory, could you please go to PlanBeeCentral.com Michael Schacker's website and contact him about this? Thanks!
    reply
  • 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
    reply
  • 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
    reply
  • 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
    reply

Add New Comment

Returning? Login