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  1. blank Bradley James says:

    These people are called the destroyers and are proud of it . While they use your tax dollars to slow kill and suppress you . Answer ? Stop paying taxes to them . Quit your job if you have to. Use your cash while it is still good to build out your survival plan.

  2. blank Nabukuduriuzhur says:

    I would submit that the main reason
    that honeybees took such a beating in recent years is that in the
    last 20 years the Africanized bee and its hybrids became the dominant
    honeybees from California to Florida. They cannot handle cold
    weather. When the temperature drops below 32, their hives die. Which
    is why they have not migrated any further southwards than central
    Argentina.

    Take this example: winter 2007-8 saw a
    two week cold snap into the 20s down the West Coast to southern Baja
    and east to Texas, with a similar cold snap in the Southeast.
    Hundreds of thousands of hives were killed off.

    The record cold weather of the last
    nine years did similar things whenever the temperatures dropped
    below 32 for more than a few hours. People can dishonestly claim
    we’ve “warmed”, but the reality on the ground is very
    different. The africanized bee and it’s hybrids first entered the
    nation about 20 years ago and became the dominant strains in the
    southern tier states— the main beekeeping region— about 12 years
    ago. The bee cannot survive more than a short time below freezing.
    Every time there is a plunge to the 20s, as became a regular winter
    occurrence in the last decade, within a short time, articles about
    “colony collapse” would show up in the media.

    Bees are shipped all over the U.S. and
    this spreads the Africanized hybrids all over the U.S. during the
    warmer months. Imagine the dismay of a Wisconsin farmer or beekeeper
    when the bees he bought from California or Texas die off that winter
    the first cold snap.

    The frost kills of honey bees in
    California, AZ,NM, TX, LA, MS, and FL may have silver linings. The
    Africanized bee, which had become dominant in many areas of the
    southern tier states, had no resistance to the frequent cold snaps of
    the last 9 years. It keeps recolonizing from Mexico, unfortunately,
    but farmers can restock with honey bees from the northern U.S.,
    Canada, and Hawaii.

    Our other pollinators, such as
    bumblebees, are in excellent shape outside of urban areas. Honeybees
    are doing very well in the colder parts of the nation. Here in the
    northwest, which had its own beekeeping, the colonies are almost
    unaffected, except those which were recently imported from the south.
    The honeybee populations in the woods and deserts are unaffected,
    being European. I routinely see 8 native bees and the European
    honeybee in my backyard garden every year and I’m about 10 miles
    inside an MSA with a combined population of 180000 in Oregon. There
    are more than 200 days of frost here and the African variety of
    honeybee cannot survive here.

    Of course, the varroa and tracheal
    mites are still a problem, but thankfully, at least here in Oregon,
    our native pollinators seem to be increasing in number. Our
    raspberries are often pollinated mostly by bumblebees of different
    types whereas it used to be mainly honeybees, for example. Leafcutter
    bees and ground dwelling bees have been showing up in areas where
    they had been absent. There are at least 3 species of bees smaller
    than honeybees that have become common in recent years. I’m beginning
    to wonder if the introduction of the European Honeybee suppressed
    some of the local bees.

    My garden generally has 5 species plus
    two tiny, 1/4″ bee species native to the Pacific NW. And a few
    others that I haven’t ID’d yet. Because our bees are cold adapted
    and the Africanized bee cannot survive here, our native colonies of
    honeybees are unaffected.

    Why isn’t anyone looking into this?
    Admittedly, it’s more interesting if it’s varroa mites, tracheal
    mites, viruses or bacteria, but these have been with us for
    millennia. But cold, something we all take for granted and the
    hybrids cannot handle? Why hasn’t Canada, which locked out our bees
    due to the Africanized bee’s arrival in the States, had the same
    die off, for example?

    Speaking of bees, some years ago, one
    of the large variety of bumblebees was busily pollinating the daisies
    in the backyard. About 2.5 inches long and an inch tall, it was
    nothing for a fascinated cat to mess with. Naturally, our 13 lb
    taupe cat “Blondie” decided that it would make for good
    prey. He leaps! About that time, the bee moved to another flower.
    The cat pounces on the now-empty daisy, which doesn’t support him and
    he continues on and smacks the grass. POOMP! The bee just ignored
    him and continued on it’s way.

    Couldn’t help but wonder what the cat
    would do with the bee if he caught it.

    1. blank Sa Poplick says:

      Nice theory but no. The african and hybrids are unmanagable. You don’t maintain them for domestic use. It is the docile european and American bees that are dying out.

  3. blank Sa Poplick says:

    The people still have a voice and Corporation are starting to listen. We buy the goods make sure to purchase only the ingredients you want. Read labels, if you can’t pronounce an ingredient don’t buy the products. They have and are starting to change. Consumer just need to continue demanding real food.

  4. blank Sa Poplick says:

    They do loose in the end but how bad it gets before that is anyone’s guess.

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