This is the fifth article I've written about CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder) in the last year and a half. I haven't written about it since the Presidential election because I simply assumed that our NEW CHANGES in government would be responding to this issue.
I'm starting to get worried because this issue might compare to trying to clean up Toxic Waste sites around the country.
You don't hear too much about Toxic Waste Sites clean up programs because frankly they (both sides of the aisle) have no idea what to really do about it....so basically being quiet is just the best way of dealing with the problem.
I HEAR NOTHING ABOUT CCD except an occasional letter to the editor from time to time....as in today's Santa Monica Daily Press.
COLONY COLLAPSE DISORDER might be one of those hands off issues. Neither side has any idea why BEES are disappearing so the best way of dealing with the problem is by being quiet. Why make everybody upset over something that can't be explained.
THE ONLY REALITY HERE IS THAT BEES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR POLLINATION.
They aren't the only creature that pollinates but they are the responsible for a very large percentage of what does get pollinated.
There have been rumors that Einstein warned about the lost of Bees but no real evidence can produce where and when he said that....
....AND THAT'S ONE OF THE PROBLEMS.
PEOPLE MAKE UP CRAP ABOUT WHO SAID WHAT ABOUT SOMETHING AND THEN IT TURNS OUT NOT TO BE TRUE AND THE ISSUE GETS LOST IN THE BULLSHIT.
FACTS OF THE MATTER (wikipedia)
Bees play an important role in pollinating flowering plants, and are the major type of pollinator in ecosystems that contain flowering plants. Bees either focus on gathering nectar or on gathering pollen depending on demand, especially in social species. Bees gathering nectar may accomplish pollination, but bees that are deliberately gathering pollen are more efficient pollinators. It is estimated that one third of the human food supply depends on insect pollination, most of which is accomplished by bees, especially the domesticated European honey bee. Contract pollination has overtaken the role of honey production for beekeepers in many countries. Monoculture and the massive decline of many bee species (both wild and domesticated) have increasingly caused honey bee keepers to become migratory so that bees can be concentrated in seasonally-varying high-demand areas of pollination.
Bees are the favorite meal of Merops apiaster, the bee-eater bird. Other common predators are kingbirds, mockingbirds, bee wolves, and dragonflies.
I SURE HOPE THE PROBLEM ISN'T BEING CREATED BY MOCKINGBIRDS WITH EATING DISORDERS.
Scale of the disorder (wikipedia)
In the U.S., at least 24 different states[8][17] as well as portions of Canada[18] have reported at least one case of CCD. However, in many cases, beekeepers reporting significant losses of bees did not experience CCD, and a major part of the subsequent analysis of the phenomenon hinges upon distinguishing between true CCD losses and non-CCD losses.[19] In a survey of 384 responding beekeepers from 13 states, reporting the number of hives containing few or no bees in spring, 23.8% met the specified criteria for CCD (that 50% or more of their dead colonies were found without bees and/or with very few dead bees in the hive or apiary).[19] In the US, CCD-suffering operations had a total loss of 45% compared to the total loss of 25% of all colonies experienced by non-CCD suffering beekeepers in 2006-2007; it is further noted that non-CCD winter losses as high as 50% have occurred in some years and regions (e.g., 2000-2001 in Pennsylvania), though "normal" winter losses are typically considered to be in the range of 15-25%.[19]
In the winter of 2008 a survey by the US Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Services (USDA-ARS) and Apiary inspectors showed that 36% of America's 2.4 million hives were lost to CCD. The survey covered almost 20% of America's 1,500 commercial beekeepers, and suggested an increase of 11% over the losses of 2007, and 40% over the losses of 2006. [20]
There are also putative cases reported by the media from India, Brazil[21] and parts of Europe.[22] Since the beginning of the 1990s, France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Greece, Slovenia and the Netherlands have been affected by honey bee disappearances, though this is not necessarily associated with CCD
SO WE DON'T CALL IT CCD...WE JUST CALL IT DB.... DISAPPEARING BEES
WHATEVER WE CALL IT....THE END RESULT IS WAY WORSE THAN ANY PROBLEM WE MIGHT BE HAVING WITH OIL AND GAS ISSUES
;[2] Austria and United Kingdom (where it has been dubbed the "Mary Celeste" phenomenon, after a ship whose crew disappeared in 1872[23]) have also reportedly been affected.[4] It is far from certain that all or any of these reported non-US cases are indeed CCD: there has been considerable publicity, but only rarely was the phenomenon described in sufficient detail. In Germany, for example, where some of the first reports of CCD in Europe appeared, and where — according to the German national association of beekeepers — 40% of the honey bee colonies died,[4] there has been no scientific confirmation; as of early May 2007[update], the German media were reporting that no confirmed CCD cases seemed to have occurred in Germany.[24]
THE PROBLEM HERE IS THAT EVERYBODY IS FOCUSED ON THE ECONOMY AND THE WAR IN IRAQ AND THAT THE LOST OF BEES IS WAY DOWN THE LIST....OR NOT ON THE LIST AT ALL.
WHEN CERTAIN BASIC FOODS START COSTING TWENTY TIMES MORE AND THEN SUDDENLY CERTAIN FOODS AREN'T EVEN AVAILABLE THEN PERHAPS THE ISSUE WILL BE ADDRESSED BY THE WHITE HOUSE AND BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE.....but the problem is.....by then it might
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Michael Timothy McAlevey
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