From Martin Weatherall: Vanishing honeybees mystify scientists http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Billions_of_bees_vanish_without_a_trace_ More_serious_than_you_think April 22, 2007 Story Highlights “¢ Billions of bees have mysteriously vanished since late last year in the U.S. “¢ Disappearing bees have also been reported in Europe and Brazil “¢ One-third of the U.S. diet depends on pollination, mostly by honeybees “¢ Some beekeepers are
Read more →The following was send in by Tom Leitch. It is an email from a UK beekeeper, Marion Lang, now doing the rounds in the beeking community in the UK and New Zealand. Hopefully it is only a matter of time before vital research is started. Just hope it is not by the Telcos! Don ********************************************************************
Read more →From Philippe Hug: Yes, bees look for a place to hide from EMF. I give you an abstract of this website : http://www.mikrowellensmog.info/bienen.html In Austria, an inquiry was made via the beekeepers newspaper. Of them, 25 gave an answer and said that they encountered problems after mast installation in the proximity, like : 37.5 %
Read more →From Dr Dimitris J.Panagopoulos in reply to message #703 They should not seek for complex explanations for the insect disappearance. The explanation is obvious and it is given in the attached papers. Dr Dimitris J.Panagopoulos Dep Cell Biol & Biophysics Fac Biol Univ Athens [Note: abstracts only below-Don] 1) Mutation Research 626 (2007)69″”78 Cell death
Read more →From Eileen O’connor: Please read important news article, I would be grateful if you would all consider sending an email to the Independent news paper thanking them for highlighting this serious problem. For more information and research go to http://www.hese-project.org/hese-uk/en/main/index.php Many thanks and best wishes Eileen O”™Connor http://dailynewspaper.co.uk/contents/nav/top10nav.htm Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?
Read more →The following article in Der Spiegel (Germany) raises the possibility that GM crops are killing the bees but while GM crops are widespread in the US (about 40% I think) this is not the case with Germany or in other European countries where they have the same problem with rapidly disappearing bees but little GM
Read more →FRom martin Weatherall: Insects used for pollination disappearing from hives By Judith K. McGinnis/Times Record News March 1, 2007 Weeks before North Texas peaches, strawberries or melons can even come into bloom, beekeeper Jean Bouchard is already counting his agricultural losses by the barrelful. Surrounded by stacks of empty hive boxes, Bouchard, like hundreds of
Read more →From Alfonso Balmori In a recent study carried out with bees in Germany, only few irradiated bees (with DECT) returned to the beehive and required more time to reach the hive. The weight of honeycombs is also smaller in the bees that were irradiated Stever H, Kuhn J, Otten C, Wunder B, Harst W. Verhaltensanderung
Read more →Science News Article Honey Bee Crisis extends from US to Britain and Netherlands http://vegetablegardens.suite101.com/article.cfm/science_news_article © Sally Morton Sep 28, 2006 Science News: A study by Jacobus Biesmeijer and William Kunin (Leeds University), showing declines in pollinators and insect-pollinated plants in Britain and Netherlands. In July of 2006, an article appeared in La Monde, entitled, “The
Read more →The story on the mysterious die-off of honey bees is in today’s media. Here’s an article in The Independent (UK) Sent in by Andy Davidson: Species under threat: Honey, who shrunk the bee population? Across America, millions of honey bees are abandoning their hives and flying off to die, leaving beekeepers facing ruin and US
Read more →In December 2006 a paper by Olle Johansson, “How Shall we Cope With the Increasing Amounts of AIrborne Radiation?” was published in the print Journal of the Australasian College of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine (www.acnem.org). This paper examines an increase in illness in the population of Sweden and the increasing background level of microwave radiation
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