Bee Die off Colony Collapse caused by Pesticide

[Celtaur]

Sad. I knew it was likely caused by something humans were doing. This is disturbing. Corporations don't think about the consequences of their actions, they only think about what they can get out of their actions now (money) with disregard to long term implications on the health of life forms, including humans.

If the bees die off, we all die of starvation in a few years. They are a necessary, essential part of the food cycle.

A controversial type of pesticide linked to declining global bee populations appears to scramble bees’ sense of direction, making it hard for them to find home. Starved of foragers and the pollen they carry, colonies produce fewer queens, and eventually collapse.

The phenomenon is described in two new studies published March 29 in Science. While they don’t conclusively explain global bee declines, which almost certainly involve a combination of factors, they establish neonicotinoids as a prime suspect.

“It’s pretty damning,” said David Goulson, a bee biologist at Scotland’s University of Stirling. “It’s clear evidence that they’re likely to be having an effect on both honeybees and bumblebees.”

Neonicotinoids emerged in the mid-1990s as a relatively less-toxic alternative to human-damaging pesticides. They soon became wildly popular, and were the fastest-growing class of pesticides in modern history. Their effects on non-pest insects, however, were unknown.

more at link

[URL="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/neonicotinoids-bee-collapse/[/URL]

[brifae]

They have known this for at least 8 years bayer pharmaceuticals the chemical companies that make your drugs make nerve agent weapons pesticides and fertilizers that give you cancer. Bayer was originally a nazi corporation like IGFarben who made injectable heroin.

[Haruth]

Earlier this month, Poland, quickly followed by France, proposed a ban on Monsanto maize, largely based on concerns regarding GM crops and the potential link with bee colony collapse.

Yesterday, the news broke that Monsanto have bought a leading bee research firm.

There's only one way that is going to play out, obviously...

[Kannen]

If it "could be" bad 4 bees' then why "would they" even chance it from the get-go' I'm so embarrassed for the human race!! not like it wont come back & sting us on the but, Good find even thou lam news'

[brifae]

not just gm foods, monesanto is the maker of round-up pesticides which is tied to parkinson's diseas and bee deaths which they state is as safe as table salt...pfffff