"...I'm on an organic beekeeping email list of about 1,000 people, mostly Americans, and no one in the organic beekeeping world, including commercial beekeepers, is reporting colony collapse on this list. The problem with commercial operations is pesticides used in hives to fumigate for varroa mites and antibiotics are fed to the bees to prevent disease. Hives are hauled long distances by truck, often several times during the growing season, to provide pollination services to industrial agriculture crops, which further stresses the colonies and exposes them to agricultural pesticides and GMOs..."

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http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_5194.cfm

Feral bees swarm my borage plants,no chems here so they are very happy and too busy on those flowers to even think about stinging me. My garden has a constant zzzzzzzz sound. Bees everywhere.

Thanks for the info. I was actually wondering about this issues for some time because it has huge implications.

I also wonder about the effects of Chemtrails on bees.

I think the chemtrails are affecting more than we'd like to admit in very negative ways.

Just wanted to let you know, many many bees toward summers end. No real problem with the bees it would appear here, perhaps they simply have decided they do not like their beekeepers.

Reminds me of mad cow.

The real issue was that some pesticides were inhibiting the update of copper which caused the strange behavior, but we'll never hear that on the nightly news, at least not anytime soon.

Russ, there was some research in france indicating, new pesticides were killing the bees. The manufacturer of the special pesticides is BAYER. Weird...

The real issue was that some pesticides were inhibiting the update of copper which caused the strange behavior, but we'll never hear that on the nightly news, at least not anytime soon.

Its really awful that new pesticides were killing the bees.
We need to make them in new improved way.