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'Zombie' Bees Discovered For First Time In Eastern U.S.

TheWake UpCall 0 bees 9:23 AM

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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">These aren't undead bees doomed to roam for eternity. They often die only a few hours after showing symptoms, Hafernik said.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Hafernik and his team of colleagues and students have been tracking the zombie bee spread across the United States. California, Washington, Oregon and South Dakota all have confirmed zombie bees while this is the first time the bee has been found this far east, said Hafernik. The fly previously attached to bumblebees as hosts, not honeybees, according to Hafernik.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">"Right now, we don't know if it's an isolated thing," Stephen Parise, Vermont agricultural production specialist, said Tuesday at the state's annual farm show.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">The Vermont Agency of Agriculture hopes to use trapping to investigate the threat. Parise also told the Vermont Beekeeper Association that he expected more bee deaths this year due to wild temperature swings.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"><img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/09/07/article-0-14E37C62000005DC-905_634x471.jpg" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Chas Mraz, of Champlain Valley Apiary, said mites, viruses and pesticides are bigger health issues for honeybees. A lack of nectar and pollen in a changing agricultural ecosystem focused more on corn and soybeans could affect bee immune systems, he said.</div><br />
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">"There's tremendous pressure on bees," Mraz said. Champlain Valley Apiary has been operating since 1931 and houses about 1,200 bee colonies. At peak population in good weather, that means over 60 million bees.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">University of Illinois entomologist May Berenbaum, a top bee expert, agreed.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">"It is seemingly kind of Biblical here," she said. "We're getting every conceivable kind of plague."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Given the way bee populations have become so homogenized and how they are shipped cross country to aid in pollenating, the first Eastern infection of the zombie fly makes sense, Berenbaum said.<br />
<img alt="A hive of honey bees is on display at the Vermont Beekeeping Supply booth at the 82nd annual Vermont Farm Show at the Champlain Valley Expo in Essex Jct., Vt., on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Andy Duback)" height="292" src="http://i1.huffpost.com/gen/1589239/thumbs/n-BEES-large.jpg" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">"It's not surprising; it's certainly not good news," Berenbaum said. "There are so many pathogens and parasites that we're aware of that are afflicting bees."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Just a few weeks ago, new research by the U.S. Department of Agriculture showed that a plant virus — tobacco ringspot virus — is now infecting commercial honeybees, Berenbaum said.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Leif Richardson, a doctoral student at Dartmouth College studies the interactions between plants, pollinators and parasites. Richardson said the fly involved in zombie bees could, besides using honeybees as hosts, potentially transmit viruses and pathogens.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Source: </div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/28/zombie-bees-eastern-us_n_4683136.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news&ir=Weird+News</span></span></div>

'Zombie' Bees Discovered For First Time In Eastern U.S.

Vermont beekeepers face mite infestations, extreme temperature swings and the possibility of colony collapse. Last fall, a new threat emerg...

Study: Bee Venom Kills HIV

TheWake UpCall 1 bees, HIV 10:47 AM

<div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bees could hold the key to preventing HIV transmission. Researchers have discovered that bee venom kills the virus while leaving body cells unharmed, which could lead to an anti-HIV vaginal gel and other treatments.</span></div><div class="ndn_embed ndn_embedContainer ndn-widget-embed-2 ndn_embedding ndn-widget-embed-4" data-config-distributor-id="90080" id="ndn-video-single-02" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scientists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that melittin, a toxin found in bee venom, physically destroys the HIV virus, a breakthrough that could potentially lead to drugs that are immune to HIV resistance. The study was published Thursday in the journal <em>Antiviral Therapy</em>.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="Bee venom, a traditional medical treatment in some parts of the world, may become crucial to halting HIV/AIDS pandemic." src="http://www.usnews.com/pubdbimages/image/45229/FE_DA_0308_Bee_Sting425x283.jpg" /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Our hope is that in places where HIV is running rampant, people could use this as a preventative measure to stop the initial infection," Joshua Hood, one of the authors of the study, said in a statement.</span></div><br />
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This is what your grocery store looks like without bees

TheWake UpCall 0 bees 8:52 AM

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<li style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 5px 15px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Cucumbers</strong></li>
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<li style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 5px 15px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Green onions</strong></li>
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<li style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 5px 15px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Broccoli</strong></li>
<li style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 5px 15px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Broccoli rabe</strong></li>
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</ul><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 1.6em; padding: 0px;">To help support honeybee populations, for every pound of organic summer squash sold at Whole Foods Market stores from <span class="xn-chron" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">June 12-25</span> the company will donate <span class="xn-money" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">10 cents</span> to The Xerces Society for pollinator preservation.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 1.6em; padding: 0px;">"Pollinators are a critical link in our food system. More than 85% of earth's plant species – many of which compose some of the most nutritional parts of our diet – require pollinators to exist. Yet we continue to see alarming declines in bee numbers," said <span class="xn-person" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Eric Mader</span>, assistant pollinator conservation director at The Xerces Society. "Our organization works with farmers nationwide to help them create wildflower habitat and adopt less pesticide-intensive practices. These simple strategies can tip the balance back in favor of bees."</div><br />
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One of every three bites of food comes from plants pollinated by honeybees and other pollinators. Yet, major declines in bee populations thr...

Dead bees found in US and Canada

TheWake UpCall 3 bees, Canada 4:21 AM

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<h2 class="post" style="border: 0px; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.04em; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 5px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.realfarmacy.com/tens-of-millions-of-florida-bees-mysteriously-drop-dead-in-one-day-beekeepers-blame-pesticides/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 51, 153) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Tens of millions of Florida bees mysteriously drop dead in one day, beekeepers blame pesticides</a></h2><div style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 30.796875px; padding: 0px;">Authorities have already ruled out disease, including the infamous “Colony Collapse Disorder” (CCD), as the cause of a recent honeybee holocaust that took place in Brevard County, Florida. The UK’s <i>Daily Mail</i> reports that up to 12 million bees from roughly 800 apiaries in the area all dropped dead at roughly the same time around September 26 — and local beekeepers say pesticides are likely to blame.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 30.796875px; padding: 0px;">CCD is the term often used to describe the inexplicable mass die-off of honeybees around the world, which typically involves honeybees leaving their hives and, for whatever reason, never finding their way back home. Mass die-offs associated with CCD often occur at seemingly random locations around the world, and typically involve a gradual process of disappearance and eventual colony collapse — and the dead bees are typically nowhere to be found.</div>

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<div style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 30.796875px; padding: 0px;"><img src="http://friendsofhoneybees.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/handsfull-of-dead-bees.jpg" /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 30.796875px; padding: 0px;">But the recent Florida event involved hundreds of colonies from 30 different sites in a one-and-a-half mile radius literally dropping dead all at the same time and leaving their carcasses behind, which is why authorities have dismissed CCD as the cause. Based on the appearance of the dead bees, as well as the synchronous timing of their deaths, pesticide sprayings appear to be the culprit in this case.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 30.796875px; padding: 0px;">“I’m a pretty tough guy, but it is heart wrenching,” said Charles Smith of Smith Family Honey Company to News 13 in Orlando. His family’s company lost an estimated $150,000 worth of bees in the recent die-off. “Not only is it a monetary loss here, but we work really hard on these <span style="border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/bees.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 51, 153) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;"><span style="border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">bees</span></a></span> to keep them in good health.”</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 30.796875px; padding: 0px;">The Florida die-off coincides with a recent county-wide mosquito eradication effort, during which helicopters flew over various parts of the county and sprayed airborne <span style="border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/pesticides.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 51, 153) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;"><span style="border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">pesticides</span></a></span>. Officials, of course, deny that this taxpayer-funded spraying initiative had anything to do with the bee genocide, though.</div><span style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 30.796875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img height="211" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Wasp_attack.jpg/800px-Wasp_attack.jpg" width="400" /></span><br />

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<div style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 30.796875px; padding: 0px;">“The fact that it was so widespread and so rapid, I think you can pretty much rule out disease,” said Bill Kern, an entomologist from the University of <span style="border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/Florida.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 51, 153) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;"><span style="border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Florida</span></a></span> (UF) to <i>Florida Today</i>. “It happened essentially almost in one day. Usually diseases affect adults or the brood, you don’t have something that kills them both.”</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 30.796875px; padding: 0px;">Many of the beekeepers who lost their hives in the mass killing raised their bees to sell to American farmers, who then used them to pollinate food crops. Because of their massive losses, many of these <span style="border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/beekeepers.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 51, 153) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;"><span style="border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">beekeepers</span></a> </span>could end up losing their entire beekeeping businesses.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 30.796875px; padding: 0px;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Visit <span style="border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://naturalnews.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 51, 153) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Natural News</span></a> <span style="border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">for more information</span></span></em>.</div><span style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 30.796875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Read more at <a href="http://www.realfarmacy.com/tens-of-millions-of-florida-bees-mysteriously-drop-dead-in-one-day-beekeepers-blame-pesticides/#kWHtdoOAPxu3f8Mq.99" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; color: #003399; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">http://www.realfarmacy.com</a></span><br />
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<h1 class="post-title" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Roboto Condensed', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 10px 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Over 30 Million Bees Found Dead In Elmwood Canada</h1><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">Shortly after 50,000 bees were found dead in an Oregon parking lot (read more <a href="http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/06/27/more-than-25000-thousand-bees-found-dead-in-oregon-parking-lot/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s linear; color: #27aae1; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;">here</a>), a staggering 37 million bees have been found dead in Elmwood, Ontario, Canada. Dave Schuit, who runs a honey operation in Elmwood has lost 600 hives. He is pointing the finger at the insecticides known as neonicotinoids, which are manufactured by Bayer CropScience Inc. This also comes after a recent report released by the British Beekeepers Association (BBKA) that recorded its largest loss of honeybees ever. You can read more about that <a href="http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/06/13/largest-honeybee-loss-ever-recorded-in-the-united-kingdom/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s linear; color: #27aae1; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;">here</a>.  The European Union has stepped forward, having banned multiple pesticides that have been linked to killing millions of bees. You can view the studies and read more about that <a href="http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/05/03/european-union-votes-to-ban-pesticides-linked-to-bee-deaths/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s linear; color: #27aae1; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;">here</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">The loss comes after the planting of corn. Neonicotinoid pesticides are used to coat corn seed with air seeders. This results in having the pesticide dust blown into the air when planted. The death of millions of pollinators was studied by Purdue University. They discovered that Bees exhibited neurotoxic symptoms. They analyzed dead bees and found that traces of thiamethoxam/clothiandin were present in each case. The only major source of these compounds are seed treatments of field crops. You can view that study<a href="http://extension.entm.purdue.edu/publications/E-53.pdf" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s linear; color: #27aae1; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;"> here</a> (1).</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcc0z9MKEVti09xyQscGjlkyc6FDBvRVNVge_NaF2Bcmd-wP4JLGMc4kbO44apuV6jPdmnBIIUZLj3Uem8f9aBzrh55h4mg2GXpMDgQP3U9bZA1nf50mi5fAzyTsNHlOnVwb_vSkp8yKY/s400/Wax+006.jpg" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">Bee deaths are increasing exponentially. An international team of scientists led by Holland’s Utrecht University has concluded that, “large scale prophylaxic use in agriculture, their high persistence in soil and water, and their uptake by plants and translocation to flowers, neonicotinoids put pollinators at risk. This is some of the research that led to the European Unions ban of the pesticides, as mentioned and referenced earlier.</div><br />
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Dead bees found in US and Canada

Tens of millions of Florida bees mysteriously drop dead in one day, beekeepers blame pesticides Authorities have already ruled out disease,...

Scientists confirm: Pesticides kill America’s honey bees

TheWake UpCall 0 bees, Pesticides, Scientists, US 1:49 PM

<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Honey bees are quickly disappearing from the US – a phenomenon that has left scientists baffled. But new research shows that bees exposed to common agricultural chemicals while pollinating US crops are less likely to resist a parasitic infection.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">As a result of chemical exposure, honey bees are more likely to succumb to the lethal Nosema ceranae parasite and die from the resulting complications.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Scientists from the University of Maryland and the US Department of Agriculture on Wednesday published a study that linked chemicals, including fungicides, to the <a href="http://rt.com/usa/bee-pollination-disaster-food-959/" style="color: #0033cc;">mass die-offs</a>. Scientists have long struggled to find the cause behind the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), in which an estimated 10 million beehives at an average value of $200 each have been lost since 2006.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><img height="224" src="http://rt.com/files/news/1f/e2/80/00/10.si.jpg" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Last winter, the honey bee population declined by 31.1 percent, with some beekeepers reporting losses of 90 to 100 percent of their bee populations. Scientists are concerned that “Beemageddon” could cause the collapse of the $200 billion agriculture industry, since more than 100 US crops rely on honey bees to pollinate them.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The new findings are key in determining one of the causes of the CCD, but they fail to explain why entire beehives sometimes die at once.</div>

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<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">UMD and DOA researchers found that pollen samples in fields ranging from Delaware to Maine contained nine different agricultural chemicals, including fungicides, herbicides, insecticides and miticides. One particular sample even contained 21 different agricultural chemicals. To test their theory, they fed pesticide-ridden pollen samples to healthy bees and then infected them with the parasite. They found that the pesticides hindered the bees’ abilities to resist the infection, thus contributing to their deaths. The fungicide chlorothalonil was particularly damaging, tripling the risks of parasitic infection.<br />
<img src="http://www.evanhammer.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/176176998_8c88c97072-e1268272227305.jpg" /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">“We don’t think of fungicides as having a negative effect on bees, because they’re not designed to kill insects,” Dennis vanEngelsdorp, the study’s senior author, said in a news release.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">He explained that federal regulations restrict the use of insecticides while pollinators are foraging, but noted that “there are no such restrictions on fungicides, so you’ll often see fungicide applications going on while bees are foraging on the crop. The finding suggests that we have to reconsider that policy.”</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Bees are declining at such a fast rate that one bad winter could trigger an agricultural disaster. California’s almond crop would be hit particularly hard, since the state supplies 80 percent of the world’s almonds. Pollinating California’s 760,000 acres of almond fields requires 1.5 million out-of-state bee colonies, which makes up 60 percent of the country’s beehives. The CCD is a major threat to this $4 billion industry.</div><br />
<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Entomologists suspect that a number of other factors also contribute to the CCD, including climate change, habitat destructing and handling practices that expose bees to foreign pathogens. But the effect of agricultural chemicals is particularly alarming, especially since the US does not have laws banning the use of the pesticides that are affecting bee health.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">“The pesticide issue in itself is much more complex than we have led to believe,” vanEngelsdorp said. “It’s a lot more complicated than just one product, which means of course the solution does not lie in just banning one class of product.”</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Source: <a href="http://www.blacklistednews.com/Scientists_confirm%3A_Pesticides_kill_America%E2%80%99s_honey_bees/27678/0/38/38/Y/M.html" style="background-color: transparent;">http://www.blacklistednews.com/Scientists_confirm%3A_Pesticides_kill_America%E2%80%99s_honey_bees/27678/0/38/38/Y/M.html</a></div>

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Scientists confirm: Pesticides kill America’s honey bees

Honey bees are quickly disappearing from the US – a phenomenon that has left scientists baffled. But new research shows that bees exposed to...

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