I have a special love and appreciation for bees and was once a bee keeper. I have been following the bee blight with great interest and concern. One thing that I have heard in the USA is that the die off is not happening in France where a particular pesticide is banned. The pesticide has some nicotine derivitive in it. Maybe someone from France can speak to this. I have always worried for the commercial bees who are worked year round and never get to rest and build up their strenght before they literally fly their wings off in three weeks taking care of our pollination needs.
Thanks for the bee info Pat Black On 5/14/07, Metta & Gary <[email protected]> wrote:
At 09:38 AM 5/14/2007, Marina wrote: Dear friends, I wonder if such a threat goes also for bumlebees and butterflies? With love from Siberia, Marina Tyasto ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FWIW, apparently the "colony collapse" die-off is not a problem in the organic beekeeping world: http://www.informationliberation.com/index.php?id=21912 * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
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