More Than 25% Of America's Bees Are Missing

LOST BEES A MYSTERY TO SCIENTISTS

Washington
April 25, 2007

MORE than a quarter of America's 2.4 million bee colonies have been lost - tens of billions of bees, according to an estimate from the Apiary Inspectors of America, a national group that tracks beekeeping. So far, no one can say what is causing the bees to become disoriented and fail to return to their hives.

A number of theories have been posed, and many seem to researchers to be more science fiction than science: people have blamed genetically modified crops, cellular phone towers and high-voltage transmission lines.

Diana Cox-Foster, an entomologist at Pennsylvania State University, and Jeffrey Pettis, an entomologist from the US Department of Agriculture, are leading a team of researchers trying to find an explanation for "colony collapse disorder", the name given to the disappearing bee syndrome.

The scientists have been focusing on the most likely suspects: a virus, a fungus or a pesticide. Researchers have collected samples in several states and have begun doing bee autopsies and genetic analysis.

They have also been testing pesticides. The group of compounds they believe is most suspect is the neonicotinoids, commonly used to treat corn and other seeds against pests.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/lost-bees-a-mystery-to-scientists/2007/04/24/1177180648274.html#

Bees, however, are capable of seeing ultraviolet light, which is invisible to humans. The bee is capable of navigating, even on a cloudy day, by cloud-penetrating ultraviolet light. Honey bees also use the sun as a reference point to communicate to other bees the angle of flight to be followed to arrive at newly discovered nectar-bearing flowers.

Bees are world-class navigators. Honeybees communicate direction and distance from the hive to nectar sources through a sophisticated dance "language". In 1973, Karl von Frisch received a Nobel Prize for deciphering this bee language, which consists of a circle dance and a tail wagging dance. It accurately tells other bees the angle from the sun and the distance to the nectar.

Bees use the sun as a compass. Even when the sun is obscured by clouds, bees can detect it's position from the light in brighter patches of the sky. Bees also can see ultraviolet designs in flowers like an airplane circling an airport sees the landing lights on a runway. Honeybees also have a built-in clock that appears to be synchronized with the secretion of nectar from flowers.

I think that the Bees are disappearing because they know that there are major changes in the Sun taking place. In fact, I believe that because of the coming Pole-Shift and changes with our magnetic field, that you will see many creatures suddenly "disappearing" for no apparent reason.

As we get closer and closer to the coming Pole-Shift, the Sun will begin to act stranger and stranger. Soon it will blow away our magnetic field and cause an enormous disaster on the Earth.

Everything's a conspiracy to you. 😐

Originally posted by lord xyz
Everything's a conspiracy to you. 😐

Well, I believe this is more related to the coming Pole-Shift, a Natural Disaster that has been proven by scientists to have occurred on our Earth previously more than a few times.

So, I don't think this one fits into the "conspiracy theory" category Lord. Not this one.

Good luck getting Americans off their cellulars..

Originally posted by NuclearWinter
I think that the Bees are disappearing because they know that there are major changes in the Sun taking place. In fact, I believe that because of the coming Pole-Shift and changes with our magnetic field, that you will see many creatures suddenly "disappearing" for no apparent reason.

As we get closer and closer to the coming Pole-Shift, the Sun will begin to act stranger and stranger. Soon it will blow away our magnetic field and cause an enormous disaster on the Earth.

that's why the dinosaurs went extinct. They all had a meeting one day and decided there was going to be a massive pole shift...........they decided upon all committing suicide to nullify the chances of any one of them dying in a pole shift.

Originally posted by Evil Dead
that's why the dinosaurs went extinct. They all had a meeting one day and decided there was going to be a massive pole shift...........they decided upon all committing suicide to nullify the chances of any one of them dying in a pole shift.

Originally posted by NuclearWinter
Well, I believe this is more related to the coming Pole-Shift, a Natural Disaster that has been proven by scientists to have occurred on our Earth previously more than a few times.

So, I don't think this one fits into the "conspiracy theory" category Lord. Not this one.

This is no conspiracy.

I saw an excellent report on how it was due to cell phones. Wish I'd remember where I saw that.

Originally posted by KharmaDog
This is no conspiracy.

I saw an excellent report on how it was due to cell phones. Wish I'd remember where I saw that.

Explain what cell phones have to do with that.

Not saying it isn't true but what was the premise?

Albert Einstein quote: "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.

Originally posted by Deano
Albert Einstein quote: "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.

Not a conspiracy...

Originally posted by Deano
Albert Einstein quote: "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.

Prove he said that, or are you just parroting nonsense?

Originally posted by Ushgarak
Prove he said that, or are you just parroting nonsense?

Example: Religion without Science is lame. Science without religion is blind.

I highly doubt Einstein would say something like that.

undetermined

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/einstein/bees.asp

why is Einstein being mentioned in this thread? He was a physicist, not a biologist, zoologist or botonist. Why not just quote the waitress from your local Dennys on the subject, she has just as much expertise.

Originally posted by Deano
undetermined

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/einstein/bees.asp

So you mean you don;t actually have a source for it anywhere?

So by saying he said it, you were basically lying because you actually have not one idea if he said that or not.