From World Science: 2nd study links pesticide to bee epidemic http://www.world-science.net/othernews/120405_imidacloprid April 5, 2012 Courtesy of the Harvard School of Public Health and World Science staff The likely culprit in sharp worldwide declines in honeybee colonies since 2006 is Imidacloprid, one of the most widely used pesticides, a study from the Harvard School of Public [...]
Posted to this blog by Anton Fernhout: Mobile phone-induced honeybee worker piping Published in Apidologie (2011) 42:270–279 Daniel FAVRE 1,2 1: Scientific collaborator in the Laboratory of Cellular Biotechnology (LBTC), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. 2: Apiary School of the City of Lausanne, Chemin du Bornalet 2, CH-1066, Épalinges, Switzerland Received 24 [...]
From Katharina Gustavs: Dear all, I am happy to report that two brochures published by the Competence Initiative from Germany (www.kompetenzinitiave.net) are now available in English as a free download. I highly recommend reading both of them. As a gifted biophysicist, Dr. Ulrich Warnke has a great way of showing us the bigger picture, how [...]
Monsanto co-ops colony collapse disorder science
For some time there has been a section on this blog titled, “Bees and Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)” originally to report on the possible connection between CCD and increasing radiofrequency/microwave (RF/MW) levels worldwide. Although it is likely this may be a factor, the central culprit increasingly looks like pesticides, such as Imidacloprid which has been [...]