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12 Apr 2007, 5:00 pm

Yeah I got bit by a bee once near my EYE when I was 8 it sucked! but I digress. The alarming decline in bee populations is a extremely important issue. :(



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12 Apr 2007, 6:36 pm

sinsboldly wrote:
The beekeepers here in this Oregon Valley have lost over 90% of their bees from hives they keep for the orchards and farms here. Our beekeepers seem to think it is that the sun is so bright it disorients them from flying back to the hives. they just get lost and die where they run out of 'gas'.

Merle

I think we have more sun than you and the bees here do ok (except the introduced European honey bee is outbreeding our native (stingless) bee.

I haven't heard of any other bee problems here.


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12 Apr 2007, 7:32 pm

There doesn't seem to be a shortage of bees in this area. How pathetic though for humanity to be killed off because of bee extinction.


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15 Apr 2007, 8:33 am

I found this earlier

http://news.independent.co.uk/environme ... 449968.ece

"Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?
Scientists claim radiation from handsets are to blame for mysterious 'colony collapse' of bees "