[indigo girl]

Originally Posted by Suesquatch

I'm losing my mind. I looked at this thread and saw, "Why are the homeless dying?"

Nevermind.

Sue, I love you anyway even if....

[Suesquatch]

Originally Posted by indigo girl

Sue, I love you anyway even if....

Sorry. I really did do a double-take on the title and cracked myself up. Sorry to do it in your serious thread.

[indigo girl]

I have a large garden with many flowering plants still in bloom. I have seen
very few honey bees this summer. There are many other types of bees, but
honey bees are conspicuous by their absence. I miss them.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...bee-virus.html

Originally Posted by news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070906-bee-virus.html

A new comparison of healthy and unhealthy honeybee colonies shows that a virus called the Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV), first identified in 2002, may be contributing to the bees' demise.

During the study, researchers found the virus in most of the affected colonies they tested, but in almost no healthy ones.

The virus alone may not be sufficient to cause the bee dropoff. But other stressors, including a type of mite, as well as other viruses and bacteria, may be involved.

[Grace Oz]

Oh my, SORRY!!!!!!
Looks like it might be "our" fault!!!! .............

http://au.news.yahoo.com/070906/2/14d6x.html?f=mv

[zooz]

Originally Posted by Grace Oz

Oh my, SORRY!!!!!!
Looks like it might be "our" fault!!!! .............

http://au.news.yahoo.com/070906/2/14d6x.html?f=mv

You "Aussies."

First it's messing with our president and now this. Have you no shame?!

[indigo girl]

http://www.kimatv.com/news/local/17371779.html

What is wrong with this picture?

Originally Posted by www.kimatv.com

Last year, McLaury's family business lost 70 percent of its bees. Add the rising cost of gas to the equation, and these Montana-based beekeepers can only hope for a break.

"We crash one more time, we're out of business, we're done," said McLaury. "We crashed three years in a row. We can't take a fourth."

The earth's bee population is less than half of what it was 20 years ago. McLaury says there are no more wild hives to pollinate crops...

[indigo girl]

Colony Collapse Disorder Gives the Appearance of a Pathogenic Infection

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=67939

Originally Posted by www.flutrackers.com

...describing what happens in an apiary as CCD progresses. Among all the other symptoms, this sentence caught my eye: 'In large holding yards, CCD starts at one end and rolls through to the other end like a wave.'

Of all the things that may be involved in driving colonies toward colony collapse, the best one that would fit this 'disorder spread' criteria would be a pathogen causing an epidemic. Pesticides, malnutrition, toxic food, etc. are not likely to affect the colonies in a 'sweeping' or 'rolling' fashion. That sounds like a contagion moving through the colonies by drifting bees. Remember, also, that when losses start occurring, that is not when the contagion is sweeping through. That happened weeks earlier, when all the bees looked healthy.

[Grace Oz]

On TV here the other night, an Australian researcher was interviewed about his findings in relation to the cause of the bees dying.

He's identified some kind of bug or mite, wormlike thing which is causing the destruction of the bees. He's also close to finding a way to rid the thing from the planet, according to the interview.

GO AUSSIE GO!!!!

American bee keepers were interviewed in the story and they're now dependant on imports of our Australian bees to help keep their colonies viable. Apparently, our bees are still pure and unaffected!
Typical AUSSIE's!

On Kangaroo Island, off the coast of South Australia, we have the only Ligurian bee colony in the southern hemisphere. http://www.users.on.net/~hogbay/hogbay2.htm

THE best honey in the world!

If this problem is not resolved, the planet will be in SERIOUS trouble!
Climate change pales into insignificance compared to this.
Yet, SO many people have NO idea about it!