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Air pollution interferes with the ability of bees and other insects to follow the scent of flowers to their source, undermining the essential process of pollination
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20 responses // Pollination crisis that is affecting a wide variety of crops

  • poor bees =/ It's sad we can't find out what is making them disappear.
    kevung
  • Poor bees? Kevung, poor us this crises has a massive impact on our survival. Think of the many foods, crops, nutrition we need from them pollinating.
    FaceTheWorld
  • It shows us an example on how interdependent we are...Ecology.
    CIPHERBEY1
  • quote from article posted here....

    "Scientists are seeking to determine why honeybees and bumblebees are dying off in the United States and in other countries, and the new study indicates that emissions from power plants and automobiles may play a part in the insects' demise."


    Bees play a vital role in maintaining a balanced eco-system.

    "If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man," said Albert Einstein.

    I read lots of articles on the internet regarding this issue, seems GMO maybe another piece of the problem.

    At any rate, are bees our "canary in the coal mine"?
    grrrrr,
    queenofit
  • Never really thought about the significance of bees. Fewer bees and less pollination leads to less food/oxygen, and more pollutants in the air. Inevitably fewer bees and other insects could lead to less us.
    VigorousAlloy
  • http://current.com/items/88962109_researchers_find_key_...
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    According to this article, scientists in Berlin may have found the key to treat the bacteria infection that is also killing so many of the world's bees. It won't deal with the pollution problem though. That's something that we're going to have to change.
    abbym0308
  • Blame Monsanto corporation for the death of bees.

    The pollution has been around, it's Monsanto's attack on you and I and on God's creations (plants) that is the culprit.

    Monsanto uses diseases as an "express agent" to get the altered DNA to assert itself to change the plant. It's also likely it's the cause of the e-coli deaths of humans that was loosely blamed on tainted soil, water or illegal immigrants.

    Rove probably advises the company as I am sure he probably sits on the board.
    VoyagerFilms
  • It's important stories like these that need to get more visibility. We need to be reminded of the residual effects of our modern lifestyles. Should bees disappear, the consequences for human survival are frightening.
    crababble
  • Look to GM crops and cell phones for answers to the bee problems. I think both are responsible.

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=2GD_BKTWyTY
    Marilynn_Murray
  • YES. more exposure to these types of stories IS important, even vital, imo.
    OverHere
  • here is something for those that dont believe in global warming, maybe you will believe in pollution.
    riverdeer
  • Pollution is impeding the bees, which are dying en masse anyway, and we, the gloriously populous human race, will suffer as a result. It's taking such extremes for us to wake up, look aound and say "Huh?!? There are other species here? We are impacting them? And they! they have an impact on us? Wow, man." And they we go back to sleep.
    24French
  • We live in a world were we think they have the upper hand in life. Until the consequences come and slap us in the face.
    ipodrulz
  • i havent uploaded the picture yet but i witnessed a honey bee slowly dying on a flower outside my house. I wish i could have done something but i think a vet would think i was crazy.
    Me_im_kg
  • http://current.com/items/88935941_when_the_bees_can_t_f...
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    I posted about this a couple of weeks ago and am really pleased "FaceTheWorld" that you now are getting some attention.

    A really good example of the fragility of our ecosystems and their participants.

    smidirin
  • hello this is stanthebeeman. i'm a beekeeper let's talk bees.face the world, air pollution is abig factor im sure in
    the city mostly when you get in the country it does not seem as bad as you think.i live in kaufman,tx 40 miles
    east of dallas.when i drive into dallas you can see,taste,
    and smell the pollution.
    kevung wrote whats making them disapper.well kevung
    there are many reasons they are disappering the lastest
    is colony collapse disorder(CCD) some of the scientists
    have learned thier was a new viruses on some bees
    that was imported into the U.S.A from australia they are calling some kind of israel viruses the scientists are still working on that in addition all these other problems are out there such as american foulbrood,european foulbrood,nosema,chalkbrood,sacbrood,stonebrood.plus
    parasitic mites which are vorroa mites,tracheal mites.then
    you have problems with hive beetles and moth's. and now the very worst thing is PESTICIDE poisoning people are useing to much of it and it needs to stop a lot of people don't stop and think what kind of insects they are going to kill the bad thing is when they kill honeybees
    they are working on killing poeple to. if you just have to use pesticides use them just before dawn that way the
    pesticides will be dry the next day.thats the number 1
    killer of honeybees.albert einstein is pretty much right
    if you step outside right now and take away 3/4 of what you see trees,plants,flowers,fruits,veggie's would be
    gone with out the bees here.we would still have things
    like rice,wheat,corn and thats about it. there are over
    100 crops that depend on honeybees and few other
    insects for pollination.i have four bee hives before i
    got them my neighbors fruit trees were bare now the
    limbs almost touch the ground because of the bees.
    this is for me_im_kg im sorry you had to see that but
    thats life worker honeybees don't live long about 45
    days is the most they live in the summer. in the winter
    they live can about 3 months but the queen can lay
    upto 2,500 eggs a day. i really would not worry to much
    about the bees right now.they have had spells of dyeing
    off before they came back they will do it again. stanthe beeman.
    stanthebeeman
  • Interesting info from stanthebeeman. Thanks.

    It sounds like bees are facing problems from a lot of different sources. I just read that 30% of the bees in BC died this winter and it is impacting fruit production:

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.2008...

    jefftego
  • hey thanks jefftego. just went to globeandmail.com and i see they found another virus this i did'nt know about till
    now the kashmir virus. they are haveing it bad in b.c.
    but i think they are haveing worse in china there are no
    bees they pollinating by hand with chicken feathers.
    jefftego thanks for the info. stanthebeeman
    stanthebeeman
  • I got stung by a bee yesterday at the zoo. The bees are hanging out at the trashcans in the dallas zoo.
    We can help by learning
    http://helpthehoneybees.com/
    eleese22
  • hello eleese22 i have to know how did you get stung at
    trash can bees don't even know your there. you had to
    prevoke one like swating at or you might have had something on that smelt good to the little girl and she landed on you and you tryed to brush her off.in any
    case accidents do happen. honeybees are docile and
    very very gentle creatures for the most part.i just hope
    your not allergic to bee stings like some people are.
    hey gang here's something to kick around 500 honeybee
    stings are just like getten bite by a rattle snake.
    stanthebeeman.
    stanthebeeman

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