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cwydro

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5. The farm property where I live most of the time

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Sat May 16, 2015, 03:14 PM

May 2015

has no honeybees this year.

Unbelievable. Usually you could hear the buzz just walking around - there used to be so many of them.

Now all the clover I leave for them is just sitting there, with nary a bee to be seen.

We've owned this property since the 80's and it is usually covered in bees. I'm very upset about this.

I never use any pesticides at all, but we're surrounded by other properties that may well do so - not to mention all the chicken farms.

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Honeybee population in free fall; Pennsylvania among worst hit in nation [View all] yortsed snacilbuper May 2015 OP

See? Monsanto products work. You get your money's worth. Hoppy May 2015 #1

Please explain. Buzz Clik May 2015 #9

I'm guessing he just forgot the sarcasm smilie. MoonRiver May 2015 #14

I thought it wasn't needed in this post. Hoppy May 2015 #26

You never know around here. MoonRiver May 2015 #44

Bayer, NOT Monsanto MohRokTah May 2015 #16

Hey, no clouding the issue with facts this is a doom and gloom thread. nt cstanleytech May 2015 #19

Groundbreaking study shows that (Monsanto) Roundup causes honeybees to starve whereisjustice May 2015 #21

Bulshit debunked "study" posted on naturalnews. MohRokTah May 2015 #24

Bullshit research or inconvenient to your narrative that Monsanto bears no responsibility? whereisjustice May 2015 #31

When you post Natural NEws claiming the study showed Glyphosate is responsible for CCD MohRokTah May 2015 #35

You are calling the peer reviewed Journal of Exp Biology "bullshit study"? Here it is again whereisjustice May 2015 #37

When you claim that sudy shows Roundup causes CCD, it most certainly IS bullshit. MohRokTah May 2015 #38

You are making shit up, I never claimed anything of the sort. I do claim that there is credible whereisjustice May 2015 #41

This is a thread about CCD. MohRokTah May 2015 #42

Nonsense. You asserted CCD has nothing to do with Monsanto, I gave you a recent journal article whereisjustice May 2015 #46

Harms bees in massive amounts not found in the field. MohRokTah May 2015 #47

You cleared Monsanto of responsiblity, aka you made some shit up. I called you out whereisjustice May 2015 #48

You blamed Monsanto instead of the real culprit, Bayer, and I pointed that shit out. MohRokTah May 2015 #49

Monsanto -> "Effects of **field-realistic doses** of glyphosate on honeybee appetitive behaviour." whereisjustice May 2015 #53

Most certainly NOT "field realistic" eom MohRokTah May 2015 #54

Did you ask the authors and Journal of Exp. Biology to retract their statement? You can email them whereisjustice May 2015 #56

Being worked on. eom MohRokTah May 2015 #57

This is the real danger in GMO crops DirtyHippyBastard May 2015 #32

White House ag policy is driven by Monsanto, so yes, I'm sure they all have our best interests at whereisjustice May 2015 #34

Bee Research Goes to the Wolves (Monsanto)... whereisjustice May 2015 #23

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! MohRokTah May 2015 #25

I gave you a peer reviewed paper showing roundup as disruptive to bees, you provided what? whereisjustice May 2015 #28

Yet not a single colony in the study suffered from Colony Collapse disorder. MohRokTah May 2015 #29

You are incapable of understanding that Roundup has been shown to adversely affect whereisjustice May 2015 #33

You are incapable of understanding that Roundup has not been linked to CCD while neonicitinoids HAVE MohRokTah May 2015 #36

kick, kick, kick.... daleanime May 2015 #2

A couple of weeks ago Cirque du So-What May 2015 #3

if you have a good pollen source they may stay GreatGazoo May 2015 #51

Stupid bees need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps... onehandle May 2015 #4

The farm property where I live most of the time cwydro May 2015 #5

Personally this scares the living shit out of me navarth May 2015 #6

O.K.-Here's a conspiracy theory packman May 2015 #7

so without bees, all that's left is the Trader Joe's produce section? foo_bar May 2015 #27

corporate action is killing bees just like it kills the middle class, Monsanto will probably sell whereisjustice May 2015 #8

Did you read the article from the OP? Buzz Clik May 2015 #10

This message was self-deleted by its author Greybnk48 May 2015 #43

kick Liberal_in_LA May 2015 #11

It's not just honey bees alcina May 2015 #12

I think fracking is in part to blame. Greybnk48 May 2015 #13

We are going to start our own hive FLPanhandle May 2015 #15

Always sold out this late in the season. MohRokTah May 2015 #17

Thanks FLPanhandle May 2015 #20

Check around for beeks in your area. There are usualy clubs. MohRokTah May 2015 #22

Thanks again! FLPanhandle May 2015 #39

if you really want sweetapogee May 2015 #40

Find a bee club in your area and they will point to the individuals that rescue hives. denbot May 2015 #45

We had a good swarm at one farm on Friday, ~10,000 GreatGazoo May 2015 #52

Watch from 12:25 forward. It is an answer and mobilizing fungal compounds of decomposing wood can ancianita May 2015 #18

With Monsanto in the White House representing the chemical food industry, we may have to rely whereisjustice May 2015 #30

IMO there is only circumstantial evidence of a man made cause. nilesobek May 2015 #50

However, like global warming, there may be man-made differential factors that don't point to a whereisjustice May 2015 #55