"I just need to move on." otherwise, the Wall Street profit margin might disappear. This foreign film which took five years to make explores the reasons for the dangerous "Colony Collapse Disorder." The film would never have been made in the USA. The practices of corporate America prohibit prevention and the end of the disorder. It is the truth and here again LOCAL economy wins out.
Bees, by species and preference alone, should be local. Interstate transportation of mites, viruses and bacteria has spread the syndrome.
This film is the best news I've ever heard. It is a thoughtful assembly of facts to identity the problem and treat it seriously. The commercial answer to the disorder is to treat the symptoms and not eliminate the cause. Very Wall Street and very stupid.
Beekeeping is actually an art. It requires a methodology no different than farming. The commercial venture into this art has literally caused the problems the USA now faces. The insect, mite if you will, came from China. It was imported and naturally the commercial bee operation that carries this BUG around the country spends a great deal of time in Southern California in almond groves. So, when the mite was imported it found a real wealth of new victims.
Now, add to the immune absent resistence to bacteria and virus. The then dying bees contract all these nasty illnesses and the colony collapses into death. Where the hive goes so does the Queen Bee of the hive. No more honey.
Europe just banned a pesticide. It is neonicotinoids. These chemicals were being sprayed on crops with very adverse results.
...Like nicotine, (click here) the neonicotinoids act on certain kinds of receptors in the nerve synapse. They are much more toxic to invertebrates, like insects, than they are to mammals, birds and other higher organisms....
Neonicotiniods kills birds and other wildlife. It is stated to be far worse then DDT. It enters a plants root system and when the bug eats the plant it dies. It remains in the vegetable, fruit or nut and literally on the dinner plate of human consumption.
This problem in the USA is global. When a problem is global there are huge problems facing all nations than simply the loss of bees as pollinators. There are large issues now at hand in the USA and in the global community and if the Climate Crisis doesn't kill us all, then the invasive Chinese business culture will.
Beyond the problem with importation of mites and the propagation of virus and bacteria there is the issue that ALL COMMODITIES can't be canned by Wall Street. Beekeeping is one of them. The growth of bacteria and viruses in a bee community also goes beyond the simple introduction of this highly destructive trend, it involves the Climate Crisis.
The world is far warmer in the year 2013 than in any other year and/or decade in the human record. We are facing may of these issues because of 'extended seasonal temperatures.' The collapse is happening as the warm seasons lengthen. The height of loss occurs in the extended months at the end of autumn. However, the activity of the hive in an earlier Spring also provides the early environment for the predatory nature of the microbes and mites.
Basically, the bee colony is exposed to these problems for a far longer period of time and they succumb to them. The bee colonies/communities don't have an immune system to fight off the invasion first of insects that bore into their exoskeleton/skin (click here) and then provide the OPPORTUNITY for bacteria and virus.
The Climate Crisis definitely factors into this problem, but, it is the vast movement of freight carrying INVASIVE species of all these components that needs to be addressed. The USA is capable of limiting the import and the domestic spread of all this. We have done it before and we need to do it again. The primary problem is to recognize the 'element' within our environment causing the AGRICULTURAL LOSS of this commodity and then address it. We can do this and we need to do this. We can provide a model to the global community to reverse this trend and it can be done.
There are STILL some WISE MEN like the filmmaker with family dating back decades of successful beekeeping. Currently, his daughter still carries on the practice. So, all is not lost. Beekeeping is local. Seriously. It should remain local to prevent such global tragedies again.
Bees, by species and preference alone, should be local. Interstate transportation of mites, viruses and bacteria has spread the syndrome.
This film is the best news I've ever heard. It is a thoughtful assembly of facts to identity the problem and treat it seriously. The commercial answer to the disorder is to treat the symptoms and not eliminate the cause. Very Wall Street and very stupid.
Beekeeping is actually an art. It requires a methodology no different than farming. The commercial venture into this art has literally caused the problems the USA now faces. The insect, mite if you will, came from China. It was imported and naturally the commercial bee operation that carries this BUG around the country spends a great deal of time in Southern California in almond groves. So, when the mite was imported it found a real wealth of new victims.
Now, add to the immune absent resistence to bacteria and virus. The then dying bees contract all these nasty illnesses and the colony collapses into death. Where the hive goes so does the Queen Bee of the hive. No more honey.
Europe just banned a pesticide. It is neonicotinoids. These chemicals were being sprayed on crops with very adverse results.
...Like nicotine, (click here) the neonicotinoids act on certain kinds of receptors in the nerve synapse. They are much more toxic to invertebrates, like insects, than they are to mammals, birds and other higher organisms....
Neonicotiniods kills birds and other wildlife. It is stated to be far worse then DDT. It enters a plants root system and when the bug eats the plant it dies. It remains in the vegetable, fruit or nut and literally on the dinner plate of human consumption.
SYNOPSIS
First introduced in the 1990s in response to widespread pest resistance as well as health objections to older pesticides, the neonicotinoid insecticides quickly sailed to the top slot in global pesticide markets. Now the most widely-used insecticides in the
world, it is difficult to find pest control commodities that do not contain one or several of the neonicotinoid insecticides. California alone has registered nearly 300 neonicotinoid products.
Neonicotinoids’ toxicity to bees and other insects has brought them the most attention so far and has dominated recent concerns of regulatory institutions worldwide. In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency’s registration review of the neonicotinoids is focused on the threat to insect pollinators. The seriousness of this issue should not be underestimated, as one-third of the U.S. diet depends on these
insect pollinators...
...This report reviews the effects on avian species and concludes that neonicotinoids are lethal to birds as well as to the aquatic systems on which they depend. A single corn kernel coated with a neonicotinoid can kill a songbird....
When it is found that birds are dying of an insecticide it is no longer invertebrates effected. Now, it is mammals effected as well. It is time to heed the warning and start looking to the possibility of residual build up of toxins in the human body over time.
It is a very potent neurological toxin no different than many other insecticides. Whether or not it is a dangerous a chemical as PCBs is a possibility.
May 29, 2012 — There is a correlation (click here) between high levels of the environmental toxin PCB and the distribution of body fat to the abdomen. This is shown in a new study published May 29 in the scientific journal Obesity. Abdominal fat is already known to increase the risk of diabetes and high blood pressure, among other conditions...
We already know that PCBs are stored in body fat. This isn't a matter of saving a commercial industry, it is a matter of preserving the dignity of our
American pride in protecting our people and eliminating dangerous chemicals
from their diet, air and water.
The USA is at an interesting crossroads and I am pleased I am witnessing the
destruction of the will of the environmental movement in the USA. It only proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the GOP's Wall Street agenda has finally destroyed the will of the American people. The USA is becoming China and it is far further along than anyone ever wants to admit.
When it is found that birds are dying of an insecticide it is no longer invertebrates effected. Now, it is mammals effected as well. It is time to heed the warning and start looking to the possibility of residual build up of toxins in the human body over time.
It is a very potent neurological toxin no different than many other insecticides. Whether or not it is a dangerous a chemical as PCBs is a possibility.
May 29, 2012 — There is a correlation (click here) between high levels of the environmental toxin PCB and the distribution of body fat to the abdomen. This is shown in a new study published May 29 in the scientific journal Obesity. Abdominal fat is already known to increase the risk of diabetes and high blood pressure, among other conditions...
We already know that PCBs are stored in body fat. This isn't a matter of saving a commercial industry, it is a matter of preserving the dignity of our
American pride in protecting our people and eliminating dangerous chemicals
from their diet, air and water.
The USA is at an interesting crossroads and I am pleased I am witnessing the
destruction of the will of the environmental movement in the USA. It only proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the GOP's Wall Street agenda has finally destroyed the will of the American people. The USA is becoming China and it is far further along than anyone ever wants to admit.
Duzguner, V., Edogaan, S. Acute oxidant and inflammatory effects ofimidacloprid on the mammalian central nervous system and liver in rats. Pest. Biochem. Physiol. 97, 13 - 18 (2010). This shows that imidacloprid
has acute oxidant and inflammatory effects on the mammalian CNS and liver....
This problem in the USA is global. When a problem is global there are huge problems facing all nations than simply the loss of bees as pollinators. There are large issues now at hand in the USA and in the global community and if the Climate Crisis doesn't kill us all, then the invasive Chinese business culture will.
Beyond the problem with importation of mites and the propagation of virus and bacteria there is the issue that ALL COMMODITIES can't be canned by Wall Street. Beekeeping is one of them. The growth of bacteria and viruses in a bee community also goes beyond the simple introduction of this highly destructive trend, it involves the Climate Crisis.
The world is far warmer in the year 2013 than in any other year and/or decade in the human record. We are facing may of these issues because of 'extended seasonal temperatures.' The collapse is happening as the warm seasons lengthen. The height of loss occurs in the extended months at the end of autumn. However, the activity of the hive in an earlier Spring also provides the early environment for the predatory nature of the microbes and mites.
Basically, the bee colony is exposed to these problems for a far longer period of time and they succumb to them. The bee colonies/communities don't have an immune system to fight off the invasion first of insects that bore into their exoskeleton/skin (click here) and then provide the OPPORTUNITY for bacteria and virus.
The Climate Crisis definitely factors into this problem, but, it is the vast movement of freight carrying INVASIVE species of all these components that needs to be addressed. The USA is capable of limiting the import and the domestic spread of all this. We have done it before and we need to do it again. The primary problem is to recognize the 'element' within our environment causing the AGRICULTURAL LOSS of this commodity and then address it. We can do this and we need to do this. We can provide a model to the global community to reverse this trend and it can be done.
There are STILL some WISE MEN like the filmmaker with family dating back decades of successful beekeeping. Currently, his daughter still carries on the practice. So, all is not lost. Beekeeping is local. Seriously. It should remain local to prevent such global tragedies again.
