Bee Discussion

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Hi Alison

 

Thanks for the expanded info on who to contact and more.

 

Yes, the IFAS is the Florida UC Davis school aggie-type organization. I

also alerted the local writer for the Miami Herald. On my group, one

member in Phoenix wrote she has a patio of dead honey bees and her

husband just put those eco-lights in a month ago and that's when it

started. Another just wrote from Berkeley that she had no bees when she

had eco-lights and she removed them and now she has 5 types of bees.

 

This is so relevant to all the plants and flowers we love, from

aromatherapy to food. I wonder if we've stumbled on something about

these eco lights?

 

I'm not going to put the light on tonight and see what's happening on my

porch tomorrow, and then I'm going to put the light on tomorrow night

and check Monday morning.

 

This is a horror I want to get some cold hard evidence about - those

poor little bees, my heart is just breaking thinking I may be the cause

of their deaths! You know me, I will raise a stink about this if it's

the darn eco-lights!

 

 

Alison Trick-Thornton wrote:

> Universities Like UC Davis in the Insect division will dissect and

> analyze why bees have died.

> I would imagine U of Florida or Florida State would have a Apiculture

> Department. As a division of a larger Emotomology Department. (spelling)

> Since there is a lot of pollination in Florida and Beekeeping and

> honey production , you should be able to use these resources.

> Honey bees can be poisoned anywhere and die after they have flown for

> some distance depending on how toxic the poison is.

> One of the reasons beekeepers are very careful in commercial

> Agriculture is if the spray a field a way, it can kill a whole bee

> colony.

> Calling you local Ag person was a good idea because they have the

> connections and will be able to direct you.

> When my Dad was young and just graduated from the University of Iowa

> he served as a County AG person . They do all kinds of helpful things.

> Bless the bees. They are very busy here even in the Smoke.

> Alison

>

 

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