"Monsanto Acquires Targeted-Pest Control Technology Start-UP"

[applegrove]

Monsanto Acquires Targeted-Pest Control Technology Start-UP

Sep 28, 2011 / Beelogics

http://www.beeologics.com/2011/09/monsanto-acquires-targeted-pest-control-technology-start-up/

"SNIP.....................

Beeologics is focused on biological research. Current projects in its pipeline – including a product candidate being developed to help protect bee health – use a naturally-occurring process to provide targeted pest and disease control.

The expertise Beeologics has developed will enable Monsanto to further explore the use of biologicals broadly in agriculture. Monsanto will use the base technology from Beeologics as a part of its continuing discovery and development pipeline. Biological products will continue to play an increasingly important role in supporting the sustainability of many agricultural systems. Both companies expect that their combined research could provide farmers with novel approaches to the challenges they face.

Monsanto, which has proven expertise in managing a technology pipeline, will support the Beeologics team and its Technology Advisory Board in advancing its pipeline. Beeologics’ work to promote bee health will continue under Monsanto’s ownership.

....................SNIP"

(Someone told me I had posted an illegal link. So, at their suggestion I replaced the article with an old article which talks about the same thing)

[applegrove]

1. Or maybe Monsanto wants to genetically engineer bees. You know because nature always

competes for free in areas private ownership is better.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

2. The Negative is the safe bet...

Monsanto is all about profits...like every other multinational company.

[NYC_SKP]

3. 50:1 odds on the Negative reason.

It's a pattern with them.

Rat bastards.

[Buzz Clik]

4. Some of the cynicism is trumped by the fact that ...

... no connection has been found between CCD and GMOs.

Damn it!

[Javaman]

13. Multiple studies have shown a link...

here...

Read through the entire article which sites multiple studies and the effects of pesticides upon bees...

http://www.bayer-kills-bees.com/

(from the article - with footnotes included)

5. These neonicotinoid substances and metabolites may act synergistically with fungicides in complex combinations.

Research at a North Carolina University laboratory found certain neonicotinoids when combined with specific fungicides acted synergistically to increase the toxicity to honey bees over 1,000 times (Iwasa et al., 2004). This presents a concern for honey bees because both neonicotinoids and fungicides (Terraguard and Procure) are used rather widely.

Due to the archaic science and theories being applied at the agency, the EPA Office of Pesticides does not even address or investigate the possible biological effects including sublethal effects of combinations of pesticides, but synergistic pesticidal effects can no longer be ignored when complex multiple combinations of toxic pesticides are being measured in bees wax and pollen without EPA having a clue as to what adverse effects they may be causing.


3. These neonicotinoid substances and metabolites have greater neurotoxic effects on honey bees due to genomic vulnerability.

Research on mapping the honey bee genome discovered that its nicotinic acetylcholine receptor possesses eleven vulnerable subunit members in its nervous system (Jones et al., 2006). The honey bee possesses more nicotinic acetylcholine receptors than either the mosquito or the fruit fly, research has found. In short, the problem for honey bees is they possess more vulnerable acetylcholine receptors to be blocked by pesticides like imidacloprid compared to other insects, and from a theoretical perspective, the honey bee is made more sensitive to pesticides like imidacloprid and similar neurotoxins.

French scientists led by Dr. Marc Colin (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, INRA) in 1998 videotaped one set of their experiments on bees exposed to low ppb concentrations of imidacloprid to demonstrate that the honey bees became too groggy and intoxicated effectively impairing their short-term memory in smell and theoretically blocking normal foraging behavior. After only a few days, the honey bees exposed to low ppb levels of imidacloprid stopped feeding and their numbers sharply dropped compared to the control groups. Dr. Colin compared videotapes of exposed bees and unaffected control bees to dramatically demonstrate the powerful sublethal effects of imidacloprid. If the bees stopped their feeding behavior, they will quickly die.

[Buzz Clik]

16. But neonicotinoids aren't manufactured, sold, or distributed by Monsanto.

So.... what is your point?

[Javaman]

17. Correct.

I'm pointing out how pesticides are creating this problem and that most of europe has banned them.

[Buzz Clik]

18. Ok. I was simply looking for some relevance to my comment.

There doesn't have to be any, I was just looking for it.

[Javaman]

19. Yay!

you're witty!

remember this?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2791964

It's apparent you have forgotten.

Cheers!

[Buzz Clik]

20. I'm not in the mood for more "I hate Monsano" insanity.

you'll have to annoy someone else.

[Javaman]

22. LOL

thanks for the deflection.

I expected as much!

Cheers!

[newfie11]

5. Thats the fox in charge of the hen house

Last edited Wed May 15, 2013, 11:00 PM - Edit history (1)

There goes the bees, food, and humans.

[marmar]

6. It's Monsanto. I'll go with the latter.

nt

[Matariki]

7. How the hell do we kill this corporation?

they're not just evil, they're like comic book evil.

[applegrove]

8. And unlike evil humans who pass away, usually by the time they are 90, an entity like Monsanto

could go on for hundreds of years. There is a corporation in Canada, the Bay (Hudson's Bay Company), that is 342 years old. Fortunately is deals with fashion these days and not ecosystems. But what will the planet look like when Monsanto is 350 years old?

[Volaris]

9. My bet would be that everything that does NOT look like the Saraha Desert, will look like Detroit.

[applegrove]

10. I'm glad I won't be around then.

[KamaAina]

29. You've just given me a great idea

for the plot of a sci-fi movie, sort of like a rural version of RoboCop.

[Harmony Blue]

11. They will end up doing it on their own

that is what happens to all power hungry corporations.

[GreenPartyVoter]

26. Spray RoundUp on them?

[KamaAina]

30. I'm afraid they're "Roundup Ready"

[GreenPartyVoter]

32. True.

[Honeycombe8]

12. It doesn't have to buy a co. to use its expertise in a positive way.

It would've been cheaper, I should think, to pay Beelogics to work for the positive outcome. But it could only assure wiping out the company's negative conclusions by buying it out. Sh_t.

[City Lights]

14. How convenient.

This behemoth needs to die.

[SidDithers]

15. A year old story from globalresearch...nt

Sid

[sibelian]

21. Best keep repeating it, then. nt

[SidDithers]

23. More quality content from globalresearch...

“The True Story of the Bilderberg Group” and What They May Be Planning Now
Mechanisms of Destruction and Collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) Buildings on 9/11
The Boston Bombing Web of Lies
The Case Against Fluoride: Toxifying the Tap
“It’s The Vaccines Stupid!” Part I: Evidence Linking Autism Rise in Children to Vaccinations



Sid

[Egalitarian Thug]

24. Now, now, you mustn't fear our corporate overlords, they only want to rule the world

for your benefit...

[G_j]

25. from bad to worse

Monsanto determined to turn the earth into a dearthstar.

[valerief]

27. And I'll bet it only cost the thugs, ahem, Monsanto $1. nt

[KamaAina]

28. Replace "Monsanto" with "ExxonMobil"

and "bee" with "solar". Now you know why we're still dependent on oil 40 years after the OPEC embargo in the '70s. ;eyes:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

31. Another article on this: The Fox (Monsanto) Buys the Chicken Coop (Beeologics)

Why would one of the largest purveyors of pesticides, genetically engineered seeds and agrochemicals want to buy a company which has been seeking solutions to the escalating threats to the world bee population?

Monsanto spokeswomen Kelly Powers says it is to give the fledgling company a helping hand. Beeologics has developed a product called Remembee, an anti-viral agent which its boosters claim will help stem the tide of Colony Collapse Disorder, a mysterious plague which has led to the disappearance of the bees in up to a third of the commercial colonies located in the U.S. during the last decade.

The root of the problem, however, may not be the virus targeted by Remembee, a chemical agent which utilizes RNA interference, a mechanism that blocks gene expression, but the herbicides and insecticides that agro-chemical giants like Monsanto, Dow and Bayer have themselves been hawking to farmers around the world.

This is the conclusion of three recent studies which implicate a class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids, or "neonics" for short, which coat a massive 142 million acres of corn, wheat, soy and cotton seeds in the U.S. alone. They are also a common ingredient in a wide variety of home gardening products. As I detail in an article which was published by Reuters last month, neonics are absorbed by the plants' vascular system and contaminate the pollen and nectar that bees encounter on their rounds. Neonics are a nerve poison that disorient their insect victims and appear to damage the homing ability of bees, which may help to account for their mysterious failure to make it back to the hive.

Much more at link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-schiffman/the-fox-monsanto-buys-the_b_1470878.html