List of Foods We Will Lose if We Don’t Save the Bees

The real qestion is not about extinction today, but REAL VULNERABILITY of the ecosystems today thanks to... us. We HAVE to improve efficiently our ecological awareness and the real consequences and domino effects of what we mean about "real progress". maybe we are faciong real extinction tomorrow, and not only the bees' one.

Probably so, the earth wanting to get rid of us! Thanks for the laugh.



Last Edited by H0NEYBEE on 08/07/2013 02:05 PM

Thank you!

People can miss the point so easily. I don't think we will die out. Bees or no bees, humans will live on. Remember, we are no threat to the planet.

[link to scientopia.org] It's a combined effect of BOTH MONSANTO, chemical companies, AND CELL PHONE TOWERS...IT DOES DISRUPT THERE NORMAL FORAGING AND BEHAVIORS. I EVEN OBVSERVED SEVERAL "CONFUSED BEES", IN MY OWN GARDEN.

No, didn't miss the point. As he stated in the video, many things have become extinct. Who are we to think that we would never wipe out are own existence? I would rather be responsible with our resources than to be frivolous. It is mankind that is poisoning itself just to make life easier. We have become a lazy species.

I hate to be a doosh, but could you put that in alphabetical order... its kind of hard to read, being random and all.

Haha...I had thought the same thing. Be my guest, it would be great if you did that...then just post it back on the thread!

It's like saying "humans were responsible for the Ice age because they domesticated cows,increased their population hundred folds,leading to excessive production of methane, causing the depletion of ozone and creating imbalance. "
The law is energy can neither be created nor destroyed.

I agree with your conclusion , Honeybee.

Thanks honeybee....YES^^^^^^^^^ opinion validated by Kansas farmer.

I am a sideliner beekeeper. This means I have a small business and my income comes from bees, I hope one day to have this be my breadwinning "job."

With that said, it is false only the US had high numbers of hives die out. France had issues, the UK, etc. Their overwintering numbers (hives that died or not during winter dormancy) have improved slightly over the last couple of years, but there are still issues.

This year marked one of the (if not the) highest losses pretty much ever.

France once had a greater issue than what they now have, they banned a certain pesticide and bounced back the following year. But it isn't pesticides alone.

Varroa mites, hive beetles, nosema, are just a few of the pests plaguing the beekeeping community, and the bees. Some research suggest it is some "unknown" factor that is compromising the immune system of the bee.

Also, there has not been a study of the synergistic effect of various chemicals playing off of each other and creating new issues when used in combination.

There's much going on, and much to worry about.

While I agree there are other pollinators, the only reason the us crops are still being pollinated is because we are shipping huge numbers of bees from australia. This continent seems to be the only place the bees are going on (relatively) as if nothing is going on.

I wish more farmers were as intelligent as you Kansas.

didnt read the entire thread, but only one word is needed for the decline: CHEMTRAILS

Or it could be HAARP.

Idiot

Alert - Code RED... We have another one who has figured it out.

Study: Significant decrease in abundance of Fukushima birds and butterflies as radiation levels increase -NYT

For their study, published in the journal Ecological Indicators, [Dr. Timothy Mousseau, a biologist at the University of South Carolina at Columbia, and colleagues] conducted 1,198 censuses of spiders, grasshoppers, dragonflies, butterflies, bumblebees, cicadas and birds in Chernobyl and Fukushima.

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In Fukushima, they found that the abundance of birds, butterflies and cicadas had decreased significantly as the level of radiation increased. Bumblebees, dragonflies and grasshoppers were not affected by the release of radioactive materials, however. Surprisingly, spiders actually increased in abundance with the rise in radiation.

Dr. Mousseau speculates that perhaps the insect prey that spiders normally feed on are weaker and easier to catch in the radioactive zones, and that spiders are possibly not particularly sensitive to the immediate contaminants. He predicts that over the long term, the spiders, bees, dragonflies and grasshoppers will eventually begin to drop off.

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You might want to take a closer look at this thread. It might provide you with a new outlook on what bees are doing in nature (besides pollinating many plants).

Thread: The bees and the six-sided (hexagonal) formative forces of honey

No not at all. I just want to see and learn for myself. I will never go on what one man says. But you my friend would be lost if no one told you, and showed you what to do. Have fun in the dark waiting for someone to show you the light.

you must be young.

If you are over 40, you remember when you were a kid, how honey bees where everywhere. I could go out into a field and there would be hundreds, thousands, they were everywhere.

You can't grow anything in your home garden without them, either. If the flowers aren't pollinated, they don't turn into fruit. the plant dies.

it is all about money.

These new systemic pesticides work fantasticly. They produce huge yields. Farmers are getting rich off this stuff.

Always about money and convenience. A sad world we live in.

The Plight of the Honeybee

Mass deaths in bee colonies may mean disaster for farmers--and your favorite foods.

You can thank the Apis mellifera, better known as the Western honeybee, for 1 in every 3 mouthfuls you'll eat today. Honeybees — which pollinate crops like apples, blueberries and cucumbers — are the "glue that holds our agricultural system together," as the journalist Hannah Nordhaus put it in her 2011 book The Beekeeper's Lament. But that glue is failing. Bee hives are dying off or disappearing thanks to a still-unsolved malady called colony collapse disorder (CCD), so much so that commercial beekeepers are being pushed out of the business.

So what's killing the honeybees? Pesticides — including a new class called neonicotinoids — seem to be harming bees even at what should be safe levels. Biological threats like the Varroa mite are killing off colonies directly and spreading deadly diseases. As our farms become monocultures of commodity crops like wheat and corn — plants that provide little pollen for foraging bees — honeybees are literally starving to death. If we don't do something, there may not be enough honeybees to meet the pollination demands for valuable crops. But more than that, in a world where up to 100,000 species go extinct each year, the vanishing honeybee could be the herald of a permanently diminished planet.


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where do you live? bee farmers can't even find bees. multiple documentaries about it. so either you have found where they are going or you're a lying asshole that sees a bee once in a while which is not what we're talking about.

Well said, citizen!

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Your list is not true or correct, bees are not required to grow more than half of what you have listed. I have been a farmer for 37 years and I can tell you the bee hype is BS and only a small amount of nature requires bees. Most Pollination is done by several factors that have nothing to do with bees. Every other plant crawling insect also carries pollen, wind carries pollen and birds carry most of the pollen..LOL! Please stop with the BEEAGEDON scenarios they are not true. By the way before anyone says a thing I am a natural farmer, zero pesticides and zero GM it's been a family business for 165 years.

51st them then us all should be concerned good post