Scientists stunned as bee populations continue to decline

like how many years ago did they start to put pesticides on feilds to make it easier for for things to grow they thought ntohing of the bees there is no long term effect they prolly thought well here we are a long time away the long term effect is finally showing much like ciggarettes 75 years later and marijuanna 75 years from now and alcohol which noone cares about but soon we will face food shortages because we wont have any Vegetables mother nature is gonna give up on us all soon enough and just make our Air really toxic and nomatter whowe are were all gonna suffer ..... or maby its the changing Climate thats really the Culprit here and we will find out ina few dozen years from now that were were all wrong and then we all dide well the [planet resets its self and lets the species that grow in mass quantities start over again well man has to start slowely come on people get to real life its over just sit and think about it

I've heard there is a rise in CCD for bee colonies near cell towers. Anyone know of research looking at cell phones interacting with the bees? I think they mentioned it on a show about bees I saw a while back.

The bees is just a sign of what is coming real soon, Death to all parasites and cancer on this planet, when the ones who fertilize the earth is poison which is the Bee and the food & water is posion. Its time to get rid of the cancer who have destroyed the planet and is continue to destroy the planet with its greed wars and manipulation.

in my future life i live in a dense modern community of geothermal powered shacks with my swedish counterpart somewhere in Scandinavia. All day we'd lay around painting, playing music or just playing in general. We'd have vineyards, apricot trees, wheat, maybe a few milk cows, and most importantly we all raise bees. Hopefully that last part is around by the time I can realize that future.

For what it's worth, I think the predominate factor in CCD is exposure to pesticides and herbicides.
Add that to overcrowding, transport a 1000 miles on the back of trucks over and over again to new sites constantly, and a few other commercial tortures, and you have European honey bees dying in commercial hives.
The only surprise is that they lasted this long without massive problems emerging earlier.

REALLY?! They're STUNNED?!

Let me blow your fucking minds then. It's the pesticides. No doubt about it whatsoever. They did some bee necropsies a little while back to try and figure out the cause of CCD. Guess what they found? Over 100 different types of pesticide inside bees.

It's not that complicated. They spray INSECT KILLERS on plants and then when the bees start to die they scratch their heads. What a bunch of assholes. Our food industry is so corrupt it's sickening.

Don't shop at safeway, people. I say it all the damn time. Get food from local (or homegrown) sources ONLY! Don't support these industries. Without the bees, our food supply will dwindle very rapidly.

One reason that seems to be overlooked- The American "brainwashing" to have perfectly manicured lawns,killing off clover,dandelions,many wildflowers that have been classified as "weeds" by big corporations like Monsanto,to sell more chemical sprays..so called "Lawn care Services" that use toxic chemicals to kill off these pesky "weeds" that many bees pollinate and make honey from. Clover honey is Yummy!
The bees are also exposed to these Toxins!
While also contaminating soil,groundwater and causing illnesses,contributing to learning disorders (like ADD) in children & creating illnesses and possible deaths for domestic animals(pets) .
Stop poisoning Your Lawns/gardens and other green spaces where clover & other wild flowers grow!!

The male honey bee can't get it up. Maybe some viagra honey should be put into wild.

One died in my room the other day that's for sure.

It was PISSED for no reason (as always) and it was trying to get outside but wouldn't move directly to it's right to the big open window instead opting to 'Rage' all over my closed window frame. So I attempted to push it to the open window RIGHT next to it, but it didn't budge, it kept going straight back to the closed window and finally I was like "Dude you're retarded, sorry you have to die." so I killed it.

actually, some of what I've read suggests that the expression of disease is somewhat similar to AIDS, their immune systems having been so severely compromised that they have fallen prey to a host of diseases that are wiping them out. Not unlike human disease, there are a variety of factors contributing to the defeat of their immune systems.

But hey, the show must go on, right Monsanto?

Probably not unrelated, bats too are facing regional extinction:

http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=3957

drug test the bees

Just want to make sure folks reading this make the distinction between the commercial hives of European honey bees native California bees.
The wild California native bees are doing fine.
The European honey bees used in commercial agriculture are the ones subject to colony collapse disorder.
Native bees by the way, are shy, not prone to attack, and far more efficient than
European honey bees in pollination of plants.
The tremendous lack of efficiency of the European honey bee is made up for by having much larger mass colonies of them to pollinate commercial fields.
By the way this story has been posted and re-posted in various versions over the last three years. This particular article is a rather scanty re-hash. There are more in depth articles that discuss the complex factors that are emerging as the causes of CCD and cite current studies and research.

I'm going with mass amounts of inbreeding. Over the past three decades we've been breeding and rebreeding the same bees, in effect breeding "sister" and "brother" and "father" and "mother" bees. This creates situations of genetic bad stuff looming up in each bee farm, because we can all agree that much inbreeding is not good for any species. Some farms reach out and cross breed, but not enough. Thus the slow collapse of bees, and considering their role in the worlds ecology a threat to us.

Well lets see the very first thing most folks do when they find a hive in an old house or tree or some place that they build their home is to scream KILLER BEES then kill them. Then we have all kinds of folks poisoning everything just randomly That could be part of the problem.

When California almond farmers contract bee keepers and their bees from as far away as Georgia every year, it's long past time to re-think things.

havent any of you seen the "bee movie," the sequence of events that occur when honey is diminished...yah, we need to be breeding these bees.

No bees, no life

maybe its the terrible air quality, when you consider that bugs need clean air to really thrive.

Why are scientists *still* surprised? Last global accounts I read we were *still* buggering up the environment!