Honeybees

[bacpacker]

Mods, I started to put this under the food threads, please move it if you feel it's needed.

I'm guessing a lot of you have heard about the mass die offs of honeybees in the last several years. I ran across this article and figured I would share.

Scientists suspect corn insecticide in mass bee deaths - msnNOW (http://now.msn.com/living/0318-honey-bee-decimation.aspx)

What do you all think?

[Sniper-T]

a good buddy of mine makes some quality mead from honey, and is thinking about keeping some bees. He's been watching this for a few years now, it isn't new, but it is serious!! let's let big farmers keep pounding the chemicals onto their fields!!!
:rolleyse:

[ladyhk13]

Maybe this should go over to the Animals section since this is a living being that would be raised for some sort of human consumption (honey)? The operative "word" being raised since we may have some bee keepers posting?

[bacpacker]

Well i missed that one completely. Thats exactly where i should have started it. Whoops

[Grumpy Old Man]

I have noticed several times this spring that solitary bees would crash land in front of me, stagger and die. I can certainly see chemicals having a big role in this! Cargill, ADM and Monsanto are minions of Satan!!

[helomech]

The bees are thick at my place. Can't even put a drink down without them landing in it.

[bacpacker]

I have only seen an occasional one here so far this year.

[helomech]

Leave a coke outside at my house and the bees will have it completely covered in minutes.

[bacpacker]

I'll have to set out some sugar water to see what it really looks like around here.

[Taz Baby]

Now that everything is in bloom, the bees are everywhere around here. I have been taking pics of the different kinds That I have not seen before too. Not to mention the flies are worse. This is going to be a bad bug season this summer.

[helomech]

Yeah, I saw a iredescent blue bee on a flower last week. Never seen one before.