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Pesticides Destroying 60 Percent of Honeybees
David Gutierrez
Natural News
Thursday, October 22, 2009
(NaturalNews) The pesticides used in industrial agriculture may eventually undermine its very existence by destroying the honeybees upon which the system depends, experts are warning.
“When I was teaching at Humboldt State University in northern California 20 years ago, I invited a beekeeper to talk to my students,” wrote former Environmental Protection Agency analyst Evaggelos Vallianatos on the Web site Truthout.org. “He said that each time he took his bees to southern California to pollinate other farmers’ crops, he would lose a third of his bees to sprays. In 2009, the loss ranges all the way to 60 percent.”
Honeybees are responsible for pollinating more than 90 crops in the United States, for a total value of $15 billion per year in 2007 alone. Yet in the last 20 years, overall honeybee numbers have declined by 30 percent. The population collapse is so severe that U.S. agriculture now depends upon imported bees for pollination.
One of the primary culprits in this collapse is agricultural insecticides, to which bees are exposed every time beekeepers release them to pollinate a non-organic field. According to bee experts, insecticides are well known to cause brain damage and disorientation to bees, sometimes making it impossible for them to navigate back to the hive.
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The hallmark feature of colony collapse disorder is hives entirely or almost entirely abandoned by their bees.
According to entomologist Carl Johansen of Washington State University-Pullman, “the most destructive bee poisoning insecticide ever developed” is a time-release chemical microcapsule known as methyl parathion.
Methyl parathion was first developed as a nerve gas by the Nazi company IG Farben in the 1940s. In its time-release formulation, it slowly releases poison gas over the course of several days. Bees that visit plants treated with the insecticide can bring back the still-releasing capsules to their hives, poisoning an entire colony.
It’s not just the bees that suffer. Parathion also contaminates the honey produced by these bees, entering the human food supply.
Nevertheless, beekeepers regularly recycle the wax from parathion-contaminated hives, and sell the poisonous honey to the public.
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October 22nd, 2009 at 10:26 am
Pesticides?
Earlier this week you said it was high fructose corn sugar that was killing the bees.
Which is it? You can’t have both.
will Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:43 pm
insecticides are well known to cause brain damage and disorientation to bees
this is what happen to all those people…that is why they voted for the buffon in the white house.
Matzo Man Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 1:22 pm
Why not?
Anyway no one knows how much of what is killing them. Someone needs to study this but corporations won’t let them.
Guns N Rosaries Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 3:50 pm
It is a combination of things. One too many poisons brings death.
Steve Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Why cant there be multiple reasons for colony collapse? Of course you can have multiple reasons. Just as there is no one solution or panacea, there is no one cause of the colony collapse disorders taking place- there are many. Its a symptom of a system in entropy.
Its also a symptom or sign of greed and toxic environments.
I happen to keep bees and none have died off. I happen to be a natural bee keeper. I dont use HFCS or anything else that may endanger my bees.
The crops and fields around us use bee friendly chemicals. I leave honey in the hives for them to use in the cold NE winters here to help them survive. i feed them real sugar and bee pollen and not a cheap substitute.
They are similar to humans that if you feed people junk, low quality, highly process “foodstuff”, they get and stay sick and die early. Give them whole foods, keep their environment clean and unpolluted , they thrive.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:28 am
Pesticides?
Earlier this week you said it was high fructose corn sugar that was killing the bees.
Which is it? You can’t have it both ways.
daggaz Reply:
October 23rd, 2009 at 1:07 am
Ray is retarded. If you feed him cyanide and then shoot him in the lungs, the bullet will be magically deflected because he is already dying from the poison.
GO BACK TO SCHOOL!
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:48 am
Its well known that where there is organic farming /organic beekeeping there hasnt been a decline in bee populations.
Simple really.
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:00 am
here’s a novel thought, maybe it’s both.
Is your method of thinking so encapsulated that it has to be this or that, and not a shade of grey produced by a multitude of factors.
Are american’s educated to such low, dimwit standards for any particular reason? Or are people in general just dumb as a friggin rock?
TRUTHSEEKER Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:39 pm
You hammered the nail with your third line,,,,,THAT’S EXACTLY IT!!!!!
MOST AMERICANS ARE MORONS!!!! AND THAT’S A FACT,,,SORRY, BUT TRUE!!!
TRUTHSEEKER Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:45 pm
When I try to educate friends and family they say,,oh, I gotto go,,big fat loser is on,,
or dancing with the stars is coming on…..I wanna just bitch slap’em and say go ahead!
TRUTHSEEKER Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:48 pm
When they come to my door for food and water,,,I won’t answer!!!!!!!
illicious Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 2:17 pm
I have to agree that today many Americans are brain dead dumb but you have to understand that America or Americans are people that consist from all over the world.
Its not just one color or type.
Since America is the like the only country with great democratic freedom left and the strongest (it was at least) then we are purposely being dumbed down.
It is incredible obvious with the poisons in our food, water, air, entertainment, schools, healthcare is profit driven, etc etc.
You take a little of everyone from the world and unite them and that will be magnificent for the world and bad for the controlling freaks.
Now after extensive abuse and exposure to such poisons many Americans are half retarded and always bipolar-ish angry.
So you non Americans please stop saying how dumb we are because a fraction of your people, descendants, other close generation children, family from your country are being slowly killed to control the world.
One thing that is dangerous about Americans:
First drive in NYC and you’ll be cursing everyone in your path.
Working with others (co-workers, bosses etc etc) you will find them to be A-holes.
Disgusting and dumb at times the attitudes may be.
BUT: Have a tragedy happen and you will see all these A-holes, curses, disgusting and dumb people from all sizes, shapes and colors unite like a colony of powerful hive and do amazing teamwork.
This is what is dangerous about us since with have the great intelligence, guts and knowledge to unite together and help each other. May be a little hard to explain but trust me we have one of the greatest potentials for teamwork.
This is why we were dumbed down and continue to be.
Want to end freedom? End the the USA first then the rest of the world.
Patriotgal Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Illicous-
That was wonderful!
Yes, Americans are being purposefully dumbed-down. But when the chips are down, It is the average stupid American who rolls-up his (her) sleeves, and fixes things. Yes- we are hated by the rest of the world. But, why is everyone else trying to get here??
America is waking-up. Daily, more and more people see that the government and media is lying to them, that things are NOT as they are told they are. Perhaps there is still hope. If America goes down, the rest of the world won’t count.
Artyom Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:42 pm
If that’s the case that you really help people in need… Then stop at the next person who broke down on the side of the road and help them instead of leaving them there for hours waiting for AAA to arrive with a tow truck. Sending in canned foods to Red Cross doesn’t count. That is lazy, I atoned for my sins, bullshit. As for immigrants, US tries harder than any other country to siphon off the brain power of other nations. Now they want cheap labor from Mexicans. 96% of Americans wanted the illegal ones out, but did Congress listen? No! Then you all voted in Democrats to have them change Iraq and Immigration. Did it work? No… So in the end, innovation came from Europe and Asia and the dirty work there is done by Latin America. The government tells you that consumerism is the economy and Americans making 25% of the world economy in consumerism. That is like a fat man saying stop feeding me and you’ll starve. Meanwhile the rest are starving to feed the fat man. Consumerism is just buying things. The only reason all this happens is the rest of the world is bought and bribed to do so and non compliant states are invaded. However, there are good people in every country. But don’t expect people to like America until they stop invading, exporting “democracy”, flooding foreign cultures with shallow, feels good, low moral standards like MTV, MacDonald’s, RAP, and so on.
As for bees it is usually the simple thing that is the cause. The bees likely are dying do to pesticides. Baxter wouldn’t be creating GM Rice to be more resistant to pesticides and herbicides for nothing. The big agriculture is pumping more chemicals onto crops than ever before. Cheap food is all they are after. Maximizing yield. Then maximizing shelf life, preservatives and more GMO’s. All this at consumer expense. Also at the expense of the environment and other life such as bees. These chemicals are likely one of the main causes that America is the fattest nation in the world.
Nunya Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Sounds pretty accurate to me. If you really and truly step back from MSM and just observe, you will find that the programming and entertainment is essentially and intentionally set to cater to the 7th grade education. Video games, MTV Cribs, Are you smarter than a 5th Grader, multitudes of mindless ‘gladiator’ games, fashion zombies, $500 iPhones, lame reality shows, ‘authoratative’ newscasts, ‘fast n furious’ mentalities, thugLyfe mentality, etc. Couple this with flouride, MSG, and aspertame, and you got a zombie junior high school cult.
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:43 am
Typical of this website. I remember a couple of months ago you were claiming the bee decline was a conspiracy of globalists to cut the human population. You really need to drive up your standards.
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again; Prisonplanet continually discredits itself by pedalling any old theory it can get its hands on and its readers, not really capable of critical thinking, swallow it all.
I have sympathy of much of your work, but only that which you have backed up with evidence through research. Your increasing reliance on scare stories without any research or referencing is making the website look like perhaps what it really is – a site for sad, lonely crackpots. Sorry Dad.
BeTrueSeekTruth Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:55 am
Yeah pesticides are good for the bees and that beekeeper was obviously Al Qaeda.
darren Reply:
October 23rd, 2009 at 2:00 am
I’m not claiming the pesticides are harmless mate! I’m asking why this website just posts any crackpot theory it can get its hands on, runs it for a while, then drops it when another one comes along.
Some readers have no critical thinking skills and so swallow the lot.
The website as a whole needs more integration and at least a burden of proof or investigation before it posts stories.
I’m not attacking this story, as it is actually the most feasible and is backed by scientific study. I am however, pissed off about the claim that the bee colony collapse was a globalist conspiracy to cut the world population. If Prisonplanet believe that, then why are they now running this story.
Some accountability PLEASE
hipo Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Dear Darren somethings happening to the bees which of the opinions is in your opinion the
most reasonable?.
Peter Wolf Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 2:23 pm
This website isnt claiming anything as its just posting articles from outside sources that have different theories about declining Bee populations.
However there was no link to the article so that was sloppy.
Artyom Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Because that was the complete article, if you want to go to their site, click on the Natural News link at the top of the article. Why people can’t find things on their own is beyond me.
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:54 am
Everyone who can should just STOP eating non organic and processed foods. Don’t do it for your health. Do it to stop this madness. Speak truth to power by your actions. Let these vomit buckets know that we will not accept poisoned food and will use our collective buying power to drive those who produce and sell it OUT OF BUSINESS! Stop eating at restaurants that don’t serve organic food. PUT THEM OUT OF BUSINESS – They don’t care about you. Be the change you want to see.
joss Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:49 pm
That would be nice, but too many people will still buy those things. Too many people think the government will fix everything. We can only hope the sheep do themselves in with the swine flu jab! They’re dumbasses anyways.
Patriotgal Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Agreed, on my farm, we use ONLY organic! YES, it costs more$$$$. Since WE eat some of all we grow, it doesn’t matter to us. I am really personally not fond of ANY insects, (personal thing), I like our hives. A good friend tends them for me. (He knows that I hate “bugs). So, his family gets Extra Honey as pay. Easy squuezy!
At the risk of sounding like a hippy, we practice permaculture. Fish water is fertliizer, so are small fish, Manure makes methane, which runs engines. Corn, jewish artichokes, and cattails make ethanol, which also runs (airplane) engines, and adds some zest to parties, the used mash feeds pigs and fish, grows mushrooms, and other fish food. One (small) circle of life! Of course, all this requires a LOT of work and cooperation, plus a lot of $$$$ to start it all.
Artyom Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:50 pm
No kidding! When I was in the US every night the street with all the cheap AppleBees, Fridays, and Olive Garden type restaurants were FULL of cars totally packed to the hilt. And Grocery stores only sell big agriculture products. They have a small organic section, God only knows if it is, and charge 10 times the price of non organic. Is it correct that American government has banned or is trying to make illegal home gardens? Like there is no monitoring of food quality so there will be fines and penalties hence making it not an option? I heard about organic farmers being harassed. Also that dairy farmer who sold fresh milk. Americans younger than 30 probably don’t know what real milk is like. Only family farmers likely know.
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:55 am
As bees die we are the next one’s on the list. without bees no more stigmatization possible for the agricultural world. Fruits and vegetables need the bees if we are to feed ourselves with fruits and vegetables.
Patriotgal Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Einstein once said that ALL life on Earth would die in 3 years w/no honry bees. Even if he was exaggerating a little, it would not bee good.
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:06 pm
I think mankind can only survive 3-4 years without Honey Bees… Look it up to confirm. Codex Alimentarius is going to slowly kill us if we don’t stop them. Look that up too! They want to ban natural supplements and vitamins, and alter planting seeds to remove nutrients so we get sick.
toby stevens Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:26 pm
yes. your right we die like four years after the last bee dies. yea. i’ve heard that food is being stripped of all its nutrients too. Crazy how we let them get away with this and how no one cares??? WAKE UP or you’ll be to LATE!!!!!
hipo Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Seems most likely and strange.
BurroCaliente Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Sounds scary but life on Earth is so boring i’m not getting my hopes up that anything”strange ” will happen. Y’know ice ages and ozone holes have happened before on this planet and everyone was bored to death then too.
The bees wont die, what would all those little fat ” far side” kids have to magnifying glass to death.
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:34 pm
They are destroying the bee BY DESIGN!
It profits them to do so!
They want their monopoly on bees as well!
MONSANTO is the devil if there ever was one!
I’m not kidding!
They are NAZIS!
Israel and america vs. the WORLD! pt. II (Axis of “freedom”) coming to a theatre near YOU!
Nunya Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 6:19 pm
I’m sure Monsanto has classified the bee as a terrorist. Between them and Dow Chemical (and the chemtrails), the bees are taking a beating. When Monsanto claims to keep weeds and insects out of your crop, THEY MEAN IT! Newer Dow pesticides kill everything organic. Just ask the farmers in India.
Either way, there goes the organic honey, bee pollen, and royal jelly. All 3 of which are benificial to humans.
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:44 pm
We don’t need bees. We have 40 million illegal aliens that can pollinate the crops with Q-tips.
Redhawk Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 2:21 pm
I LOVE IT—I CAN JUST PICTURE IT NOW!!!!!!!!!
BurroCaliente Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 4:30 pm
I’ll do it, I even got my own box of Qtips. Beats factory/warehouse by a @#$& shot.
awakeinthenight Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 4:34 pm
I think I almost just pee’d myself
October 22nd, 2009 at 1:36 pm
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October 22nd, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Let us not forget the ever present chemtrails. … Biker
LOL^ Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:00 pm
They’ll be there for as long as airplanes fly. Get used to them.
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October 22nd, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Bees puke that stuff up man. It tastes good but do you really think it is good for you to drink bee puke that is designed to nourish a small bee? I drink cream in my coffee but I think I ‘m gonna give that up too, i mean it is really designed for small cow not a person.
Steve Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:44 pm
37 responses and I think I read 2 that were from beekeepers (myself included)
yes honey is good for you as long as people keep it healthy.
Nature(G-d) gifts us such wonderful, beautiful and incredible gifts, but certain humans come along and destroy those gifts.
Honey has been used for thousands of years for many purposes.
Artificial, man made sweetners that are consumed by the 100s of pounds/year/person in the USA(i.e. HFCS, Apartame, etc) is at least health destroying if not deadly.
Chemicals can never replace the nutrients and life sustaining element in REAL food.
Dont shoot the messenger.. be angry at those that take your liberties and health away and then enslave you in multiple ways and then convince you that you got back in control and gained possession of that was taken away.- because you didnt.
October 22nd, 2009 at 4:35 pm
wow, this article is not even worth reading. thanks for wasting my time.
Steve Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Richard, its funny since I thought similarly of your response. Instead of making a comment that disagrees with the article, with no facts or useful info to back up your postion, you went along with the crowd and just decided to disagree.
Try not to go with the flow just so you belong with the group. Have a reason.
There are plenty of sheople already.
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:07 pm
This is a THEORY. NOT FACT. Don’t you just love how news articles make things sound like FACT when in FACT there is no proof that pesticides cause Colony Collapse Disorder. Would be better if the news article presented both sides of the story without causing “fear” in products that when used properly help the planet eat. Organic will not feed the world. But it does have its place for those that prefer it. I like Prison Planet articles but this one is really “out there” to say the least.
Steve Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:43 pm
What in the article do you consider a theory? CCD is IMO, just a label. Its similar to having a stomach ache. there are many causes., many aids for each cause.
Its a FACT that GMOs are very dangerous to more than just the targeted victim. Its a FACT that insecticides kill both good, and man deemed bad ‘bugs’. Its a FACT that profits come before life of all kinds to many large corporations.
LOL^ Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Yeah just like those bug zappers! People get them for mosquitos, but if you look at the bugs zapped, almost all are different insects. Only roaches seem to immune themselves to our pesticides quickly.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:26 pm
It is Bayer pesticides that are killing honeybees.
Bayer Pesticide Chemicals Linked to Devastating Collapse of Honeybee Populations
(NaturalNews) German government researchers have concluded that a bestselling Bayer pesticide is responsible for the recent massive die-off of honeybees across the country’s Baden-Württemberg region. In response, the government has banned an entire family of pesticides, fueling accusations that pesticides may be responsible for the current worldwide epidemic of honeybee die-offs.
http://www.manataka.org/page1397.html