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Steady decline in honey bee's

  • 07-08-2008 10:06AM
    #1
    stevoman
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    i presume allyou nature lovers have heard or know about the steady and rapid decline of honey bee's worldwide and the what the effects of this will be life as we know it. are there any bee keepers hereon boards that are feeling the effects of have had there numbers decline lately? i know that i have only seen a few honey bee's this year which is quite worrying.


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  • #2
    boneless
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    I have read the reports in the media about this. Michael Viney featured the issue in his column in the Irish Times a few times. By the way, his "Eye on Nature" feature is good.

    A friend of mine in Meath has lost two hives of bees in the past year too.


  • #3
    stevoman
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    boneless wrote: »
    I have read the reports in the media about this. Michael Viney featured the issue in his column in the Irish Times a few times. By the way, his "Eye on Nature" feature is good.

    A friend of mine in Meath has lost two hives of bees in the past year too.


    looks as though the bee's are in big trouble. 80% of honey bee's in the untied states have dissapeared. they are know importing bee to try keep up numbers. if the bees go there is surely a grim future for us all.


  • #4
    Roen
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    I remember discussing this in the pub with the lads not so long ago.
    A quick google revealed this article from National Geographic, it's from 2004 but seems to point out the root causes for the depletion in numbers.


  • #5
    Run_to_da_hills
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    stevoman wrote: »
    looks as though the bee's are in big trouble. 80% of honey bee's in the untied states have dissapeared. they are know importing bee to try keep up numbers. if the bees go there is surely a grim future for us all.
    Approximately 80 % of world food crops are pollinated by honeybees. Robert Einstein reputedly stated that If the bee disappeared, “man would have four years of life left,”

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