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Saturday, March 17, 2012

BEES, HIVE COLLAPSE AND NEONICOTINOID POISONING

http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1958&category=Environment

http://www.institut-fuer-bienenkunde.de/_Bienenkunde/images/default/Iwasa_Mechanism%20for%20the%20differential%20toxicity%20of%20neonicotinoid%20insecticides%20in%20the%20honey%20bee.pdf


This morning I woke up at about 2:30 a.m. listening to George Noory's program, Coast-to-Coast, maybe because I heard the word "bees". A woman was speaking - a reporter - saying that five years ago she wrote about nicotine poisoning of bees where they were dead or disappearing completely - that was the beginnings of hive collapse.

In Germany they lost more than half the hives, and the culprit seemed to be this nicotine-based pesticide that Bayer patented and produced. Corn is drilled into the soil on large farms, and the seed is covered in this pesticide. The particulate matter was drifting into adjacent canola fields and the bees were dying.

You know that if the bees and other pollinators die off, there will be no food. There will be no grasses, no grains, thus, no beef, no poultry or fowl. There will be no birds, no insects and eventually NO US.

So now we need to bring this front and center for public discourse, making sure your county and state doesn't use this pesticide for spraying and the USDA prohibits the use in this country just like they did DDT.

If you Google the name of this pesticide and bees or hive collapse and this pesticide, you will be convinced.

Please do.

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