Subject: Why The Bees Are Dying. 
April 10, 2012.

  Here are some people who think they know why our bees are dying.

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If we hadn't depleted the soils, insecticides wouldn't be needed.
They are all indescriminate k-llers of both good and bad insects.
Ja-is

From: Light Eye
universal_heartbeat2012@yahoo.no

      Dear Friends,

      Click the link to view the images/access the links.

      http://www.viewzone.com/lostbees.bayerx.html

      Be Well.

      Da-id

      by Dan E-en for Viewzone
      Honey bees are dying all over the globe. Here's why!

      Since 2007, the media has been reporting about the dramatic loss of
bees in Europe and North America. As many as 50% to 90% of the bee
populations have simply vanished, leaving their hives empty and forcing
farmers to demand investigations to determine the cause.

      At first it was only the honeybees that were decimated -- then the
bumblebee populations began to disappear. Bumblebees are responsible
for pollinating an estimated 15 percent of all the crops grown in the U.S.,
worth $3 billion, particularly those raised in greenhouses. Those include
tomatoes, peppers and strawberries. The crisis was eventually given a
name: Colony Collapse Disorder or CCD.

      CCD is a "fake d-sease!"

      The most popular theory, aside from the varroa mite [right] and
cellphone RF radiation, has been the belief that a virus -- similar to
A-DS -- has infected the bees. A team led by scientists from the Columbia
University Mailman School of Public Health, Pennsylvania State University,
the US-A Agricultural Research Service, University of Arizona, and 454 Life
Sciences found a significant connection between the Israeli Acute Paralysis
Virus (IAPV) and colony collapse disorder (CCD) in honey bees.

      A team of scientists from Edgewood Chemical Biological Center and
University of California San Francisco identified both a virus and a
parasite that are likely behind the recent sudden die-off of honey-bee
colonies. Using a new technology called the Integrated Virus Detection
System (IVDS), which was designed for m-litary use to rapidly screen samples
for pathogens, ECBC scientists last week isolated the presence of viral and
parasitic pathogens that may be contributing to the honeybee loss.

      But it now appears that a much more basic culprit has kil-ed the
bees -- B-yer Corporation. Colollapse Disorder is p-isoning with a
known insect neurotoxin called Clothianidin, a pesticide manufactured by
Ba-er, which has been clearly linked to massive bee die offs in Germany and
France.

      UPDATE: April 8, 2012

      The current issue of Science Daily publishes solid proof that Bay-r's
Imidacloprid is the latest culprit. This, after initial findings that their
product, Clothianidin, cause widespread bee d-aths and was banned in several
European countries. Farmers were apparently encouraged to switch to a
similar pesticide, Imidacloprid, which as now been found to be even more
deadly. Read about HERE

        "Lu and his co-authors hypothesized that the uptick in CCD resulted
from the presence of imidacloprid, a neonicotinoid introduced in the early
1990s. Bees can be exposed in two ways: through nectar from plants or
through high-fructose corn syrup beekeepers use to feed their bees. (Since
most U.S.-grown corn has been treated with imidacloprid, it's also found in
corn syrup.)
        In the summer of 2010, the researchers conducted an in situ study in
Worcester County, Mass. aimed at replicating how imidacloprid may have
caused the CCD outbreak. Over a 23-week period, they monitored bees in four
different bee yards; each yard had four hives treated with different levels
of imidacloprid and one control hive. After 12 weeks of imidacloprid dosing,
all the bees were alive. But after 23 weeks, 15 out of 16 of the
imidacloprid-treated hives -- 94% -- had died. Those exposed to the highest
levels of the pesticide died first.

        The characteristics of the de-d hives were consistent with CCD, said
Lu; the hives were empty except for food stores, some pollen, and young
bees, with few dea-  bees nearby. When other conditions cause hive
collapse -- such as disease or pests -- many -ead bees are typically found
inside and outside the affected hives.

        Strikingly, said Lu, it took only low levels of imidacloprid to
cause hive collapse -- less than what is typically used in crops or in areas
where bees forage."

      On January 21, 1986 a patent was filed, and granted on May 3, 1988,
for imidacloprid in the Un-ted States (U.S. Pat. No. 4,742,060) by Nihon
Tokushu Noyaku S-izo K.K. of Tokyo, Japan. [6] On March 25, 1992, Miles, 
Inc.
(later Baye- CropScience) applied for registration of imidacloprid for
turfgrass and ornamentals in the United States. On March 10, 1994, the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency approved the registration of imidacloprid.
It is one of -ayer's top agricultural products.

      Here's the situation...

      One of the most important crops is corn. It's used as a feed for
chickens and pigs and cattle. It's used in flour and in the production of
high fructose corn syrup. Just about everything we eat depends on corn.
Recently, with the energy crisis, corn has also been pressed to make
ethanol to run our cars. But corn has an enemy called the root worm.

      (E)-1-(2-chloro-1,3-thiazol-5-ylmethyl)-3-methyl-2-nitroguanidine
      Trade named: Poncho 600, Prosper and Elado, a Nitroguanidine
subgroup of nicotinoids produced by B-yer Corporation and registered
in 2003.

      This pesky bug, called diabrotica vergifera vergifera, [right] burrows
in the newly forming roots of the corn plant and causes the plant to wither
and eventually die. Farmers have long sought some type of pesticide to ki-l
the bug and, in 2003, Ba-er Pharmaceutical introduced a new products called
Clothianidin and Imidacloprid. Their own studies showed that these pesticide
were highly toxic to bees but justified the widespread use because it could
be applied to corn seed and would be buried in the soil where it would
presumably be harmless to other creatures.

      In theory, farmers were instructed to buy special machines that would
coat their seeds multiple times with clothianidin and a special adhesive,
dry the seeds, and then plant them. The pois-n is supposed to stick to the
seed coat and to be toxic to the rootworm as it attempts to burrow in to the
newly forming roots.

      Bay-r, who make the pesticide, and Mo-santo, who make the adhesive,
have patented the method of coating their proprietary seeds with
clothianidin and imidacloprid, which are now growing all over the globe.

      Oooooops!

      The first clue that Colony Collapse Disorder was a simple case of
poi-oning -- similar to the DDT bird k-ll-off decades ago -- was when
clothianidin was used on corn crops in Germany's Baden-Wuerttemberg
state.

      In July of 2007, the German crop was infested with the rootworm. The
German go-ernment ordered that every possible method should be used to
eradicate this pest, including the use of clothianidin (and now
Imidacloprid). Shortly after the seeds were planted, in May of 2008, some
330-million bees abruptly died! The global phenomenon of has continued
to this day.

      According to the German Research Center for Cultivated Plants, 29 out
of 30 de-d bees had been -illed, in the 2008 study, by direct contact with
clothianidin.

      Philipp Mimkes, spokesman for the German-based Coalition Against B-yer
Dangers, said: "We have been pointing out the risks of neonicotinoids for
almost 10 years now. This proves without a doubt that the chemicals can
come into contact with bees and k-ll them. These pesticides shouldn't be
on the market."

      An investigation revealed that the seed coating did not stay in the
soil but was introduced to the air (and the rest of the plant) by simple
abrasion -- the rubbing together of seeds -- as they are stored, moved and
injected in to the soil by farming machines.

      German authorities suggested that the seeds were not treated with a
special polymer, called a "Sticker," which makes the pesticide adhere to the
seed. But it is noted also that the formulation of clothianidin does not
require this "sticker" in typical applications and most farmers find this
additional coating too cost prohibitive.

      The German gove-nment quickly banned this pesticide and gave
compensation to the farmers and issued a strong warning against using this
chemical in agriculture. According to the German Federal Agriculture
Institute,

        "It can unequivocally be concluded that poisoning of the bees is due
to the rub-off of the pesticide ingredient clothianidin from corn seeds."
      According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (May 30, 2003):

        "Clothianidin has the potential for toxic chronic exposure to honey
bees, as well as other nontarget pollinators, through the translocation of
clonianidin redidue in nectar and pollen."
        [In the same report] "The fate and disposition of clothianidin in
the environment suggest a compound that is a systemic insecticide that is
persistent and mobile, stable to hydrolysis, and has potential to leach to
ground water, as well as runoff to surface waters."

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John Winston.  johnfw@mlode.com