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Not wild bees
September 11, 2007 by Anonymous, 2 years 10 weeks ago
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Reported by beekeepers and soley affecting them.
I hesitantly cite the wikipedia article on Colony Collapse Disorder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_Collapse_Disorder which has some great references in it's notations.
It has been reported in various countries around the globe, but only relating to beekeeepers and their hives. The contrast I was pointing out in my previous post was that the organic beekeepers aren't seeing this issue.
The bees are constantly trucked across state lines en-mass for on-demand pollination - what else should one expect? Crowded conditions, stresses of transfer and different environments - these are known methods for the transferring and blossoming of diseases.
Honestly, I find articles like this more distressing than the fact that business are suffering financially because they are mistreating the very things they depend on. This is more distressing because it points to people trying to fix something that already has a fix, but it is just not convenient to do it and so it is easier to engineer a fix that is convenient.
Eric