Group items tagged

Statistics, graphs and charts showing monetary contributions of honey bees in American Agriculture

In Bakersfield, CA a beekeeper claims in court that a crop duster killed 1 million honeybees by spraying pesticides without warning on cotton fields the bees were pollinating.

Private company genetically engineering RNAi-based products to specifically address the long-term well being of the bees... specifically Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV) as related to CCD. Contributors include USDA many CCD Steering Committee Members and was purchased by Montsanto in December 2011.

Thanks for this Felecia - I have been continuing to follow news about bees and CCD too. Interesting that this news was first acknowledged in France and other European countries a year or more before the US would start sharing the "news". The first study had many "problems" with the validity of the data according to some sources. But I knew it would only be a matter of time...It's interesting to think about the complexities of why science does or does not get into mainstream knowledge.

Thanks for posting this, Felicia. It's interesting that Poland was first to make this link stick. Makes me wonder what else in Poland was at play. But great news for the bees and beekeepers!

Action plan summary from CCD Steering Committee. 20 June 2007. This is a good grounding for understanding some of the organizations involved in problem solving CCD.

Cornell University monetary value study on pollination contributions to US Agriculture.