U.S. beekeepers lost 40 percent of bees in 2014-15

[cronus]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 093605.htm

U.S. beekeepers lost 40 percent of bees in 2014-15

Beekeepers across the United States lost more than 40 percent of their honey bee colonies during the year spanning April 2014 to April 2015, according to the latest results of an annual nationwide survey. While winter loss rates improved slightly compared to last year, summer losses--and consequently, total annual losses--were more severe. Commercial beekeepers were hit particularly hard by the high rate of summer losses, which outstripped winter losses for the first time in five years, stoking concerns over the long-term trend of poor health in honey bee colonies.

(continued, give it five years...?)

[pErvinalia]

Adapt or die.

[Svartalf]

sorry, we have to adapt the environment, I wanna get my honey, on and on.

[Hermit]

Blame Monsanto. On the bright side action is being taken. Just a few days ago the Dutch Parliament has voted to ban all glyphosate-based herbicides including Roundup, from the end of 2015. France looks likely to follow, and pressure in some other countries is mounting to do thee same.

[Svartalf]

I do... Their involvement in mega mortality in bees is well known, I'm just waiting for the gummint to do something about it.

[rainbow]

Blame Monsanto. On the bright side action is being taken. Just a few days ago the Dutch Parliament has voted to ban all glyphosate-based herbicides including Roundup, from the end of 2015. France looks likely to follow, and pressure in some other countries is mounting to do thee same.

Drivel, of course.

Nothing to do with glyphosate at all.

[Svartalf]

You keep your killer bees Rainbow

[pErvinalia]

Blame Monsanto. On the bright side action is being taken. Just a few days ago the Dutch Parliament has voted to ban all glyphosate-based herbicides including Roundup, from the end of 2015. France looks likely to follow, and pressure in some other countries is mounting to do thee same.

Drivel, of course.

Nothing to do with glyphosate at all.

And you got proof of this, Mr One-sentence-man?

[Hermit]

Blame Monsanto. On the bright side action is being taken. Just a few days ago the Dutch Parliament has voted to ban all glyphosate-based herbicides including Roundup, from the end of 2015. France looks likely to follow, and pressure in some other countries is mounting to do thee same.

Drivel, of course.

Nothing to do with glyphosate at all.

Yes, and nicotine is not at all connected with lung cancer, emphysema and whatnot at all. The tobacco companies have challenged scientists to produce convincing proof to the contrary for decades.

Next: The sun does nothing at all. It only shines on us when it's daylight anyway.

[cronus]

Could be decades before the bees are saved globally then? Promising isn't it?

[Svartalf]

Blame Monsanto. On the bright side action is being taken. Just a few days ago the Dutch Parliament has voted to ban all glyphosate-based herbicides including Roundup, from the end of 2015. France looks likely to follow, and pressure in some other countries is mounting to do thee same.

Drivel, of course.

Nothing to do with glyphosate at all.

Yes, and nicotine is not at all connected with lung cancer, emphysema and whatnot at all. The tobacco companies have challenged scientists to produce convincing proof to the contrary for decades.

Next: The sun does nothing at all. It only shines on us when it's daylight anyway.

Actually it's not the niccy that causes lung cancer, it's the tar and other combustion by products... and god know that he made tobacco chock full of bad stuff.

[Hermit]

Blame Monsanto. On the bright side action is being taken. Just a few days ago the Dutch Parliament has voted to ban all glyphosate-based herbicides including Roundup, from the end of 2015. France looks likely to follow, and pressure in some other countries is mounting to do thee same.

Drivel, of course.

Nothing to do with glyphosate at all.

Yes, and nicotine is not at all connected with lung cancer, emphysema and whatnot at all. The tobacco companies have challenged scientists to produce convincing proof to the contrary for decades.

Next: The sun does nothing at all. It only shines on us when it's daylight anyway.

Actually it's not the niccy that causes lung cancer, it's the tar and other combustion by products... and god know that he made tobacco chock full of bad stuff.

Presumably your observation makes a difference to what we are talking about, yes?

[Svartalf]

sure, we'll know in 30 years how smokers of e cigs fare and what nicotine actually does to you.

As for glyphosate, I already know from many reports that it's indeed tied to bee mortality, and a bad thing.

[cronus]

sure, we'll know in 30 years how smokers of e cigs fare and what nicotine actually does to you.

As for glyphosate, I already know from many reports that it's indeed tied to bee mortality, and a bad thing.

Yes, but in the modern world it might be more difficult to clamp down on usage and production no matter what lawyers say. Industrial civilization is much larger than the sixties or seventies. Not so easy to switch the tap off once something is in production. Especially with global austerity driving the quest for liquidity, by any means possible.

[NineBerry]

Now if the bees had guns themselves...