colony collapse

[Guest guest]

There are several theories about colony collapse disorder (loss of bee

population), lately including the idea that genetically modified food

is causing it. This makes sense, because a lot of the genetic

modification is done to make the crops resistant to insects, hence

being harmful to bees. I thought pesticides were the logical culprit.

But CCD is occurring almost all over the world, and genetic

modification is not, and other countries have different pesticides.

These two facts (if true?) shoot holes in these theories.

 

Bill Kotheimer

[Guest guest]

The way mankind treats the environment and only in a small way does he consider it in terms of cost, in the manipulation of everything to make a profit has its sum total effect which perhaps we begin to see.

I've been wondering about pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers, all reacting with insect world, soil organisms, the air and the rest of the environment. Also, the chlorination and fluoridation of water. Also, I keep reading that all the medicines that many of us take shows up in the water supply. Someone on another group just posted that rainwater should be rich in hydrogen peroxide as it picks up another oxygen atom on the way down. But what is happening there is that it is not because of the presence of other pollutants in the atmosphere. This effects the growth of plants, and the nutrients that are taken back to the hive, as then the plants don't get the "kind" of rainwater they need. They actually open up the pores in their leaves to receive the rainwater and metabolize it better in anticipation of the rain.

Then some are saying microwaves (cell phones). But, sometimes I see more bees in town than here in my pastures, fields (not mine but the lands that I walk through). There would be more microwave radiation in town than here. And, another email says that it is the size of the cells that they are led to populate in the hives which we supply them. Too big then too much time is taken to seal them off and bacteria and mites can get in and infect.

I tend to think that it is a combination of many factors, many of which come from the input from mankind. I just hope that their populations recover. But I also hope that people just slow down on the consumption of the planet.

There is much to be said on improvements in using less to achieve more. But, thus far, that has been a rationale to control costs (monetary costs with no attention paid to waste going into environment except for the attention that a government or consortium of governments demands) while the consumer has taken it as a signal to consume more, often finding the meaning of life in what one can consume (for work, for play, etc.etc.)

Just my thoughts.

 

ed

 

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kotheimerdc

Monday, May 14, 2007 7:58 PM

colony collapse

 

 

There are several theories about colony collapse disorder (loss of bee population), lately including the idea that genetically modified food is causing it. This makes sense, because a lot of the genetic modification is done to make the crops resistant to insects, hence being harmful to bees. I thought pesticides were the logical culprit. But CCD is occurring almost all over the world, and genetic modification is not, and other countries have different pesticides. These two facts (if true?) shoot holes in these theories.Bill Kotheimer