Comments on: The Death of Bees Explained: Parasites, Poisons, and Humans https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-death-of-bees-explained-parasites-poisons-and-humans/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 22:26:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Pat Noonan https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-death-of-bees-explained-parasites-poisons-and-humans/#comment-110842 Wed, 22 Jul 2020 22:26:56 +0000 http://keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=2276#comment-110842 Your assertion that ” backyard beeks ” are a cause of the demise of bees made me see RED. How dare you. We spend our time, money and energy to keep our bee alive, healthy and happy. COMMERCIAL bee pollinators are the cause of deaths of bees. Do some research.

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By: Doug001 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-death-of-bees-explained-parasites-poisons-and-humans/#comment-88593 Thu, 18 Jul 2019 14:19:28 +0000 http://keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=2276#comment-88593 First only 15% of crops are pollinated by honey bees, second the number of hives in the US and worldwide has been stable for the last 25 years or has slightly increased. No bee-apocalyp, sorry. Third the cause for collony collapse is now shown to be varroa mites passing viruses from bee to bee. The mites eggs are infected, as are the queens eggs if she gets infected. New mites attach to young bees and spread around, sometimes dropping off on flowers to wait for a new ride. Fourthly native bees ARE affected by varroa and the attending viruses, but they seem to be a little less affected, perhaps due to their smaller, shorter hive cycles, bumblebees bees make a new nest each year. There may be some slight stress caused by pesticides, but most pesticides are now applied when bees are not visiting flowers. And many are applied to the seeds and have no measurable affect on bees. Despite several paid for psuedo scientific papers to the contrary, paid for by big organic farming groups.

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By: Johnnie H Travis https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-death-of-bees-explained-parasites-poisons-and-humans/#comment-16936 Thu, 07 Jan 2016 14:28:34 +0000 http://keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=2276#comment-16936 Just an observation I have made and I am still not sure where it will take me in the future but I will follow up and see.
I was called to come get a swarm some distance from my home and I carried an empty hive and sat it on a table and gathered the Bees in it and made sure I had the Queen. That night I returned and close the hive and brought the hive home in my Suburban with a very nervous wife beside me. I made a feeder of sugar water and the Bees really began to thrive.
After about a week to ten days I removed the feeder thinking the Bees would continue to do well but to my chagrin the entire hive disappeared overnight. All of which makes me wonder if a short food supply is not a major cause of Colony Collapse rather than some other cataclysmic event. If the Bees die in the hive there should be some sign of it, however if they leave all at the same time only the ones not at the hive will still remain. It is my intent to start new colonies this year (2016) and leave the feeders in place and see what happens. My thoughts, Yours are welcome too!

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By: Theresa https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-death-of-bees-explained-parasites-poisons-and-humans/#comment-16709 Fri, 18 Dec 2015 14:38:40 +0000 http://keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=2276#comment-16709 One thing the video failed to mention is greedy beekeepers taking all the honey from the bees then feeding them white sugar as a “replacement”. That would be like feeding a human a diet of candy bars–one might live for a while, but wouldn’t be healthy or live for very long…….

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By: Rattlerjake https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-death-of-bees-explained-parasites-poisons-and-humans/#comment-16707 Fri, 18 Dec 2015 03:47:22 +0000 http://keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=2276#comment-16707 In reply to Mike Travis.

First of all, the claims that if honeybees go, so many plants and crops will die is not true. Productivity may drop considerably but in a few years it will resume when native pollinators multiply to fill the void; as most of those pollinators are NOT plagued by mites, wax moths, hive beetles, or the other diseases associated with honeybees. And it isn’t likely the globalists have planned this, but what is likely is that it is a useful “side effect” of their other evil doings (GMOs, chemtrails, saturating agriculture with pesticides and herbicides, etc). It should be noted that these colonies that are dying out are NOT those of the smaller beekeepers, most of those are lost due to poor management and inexperience, but mostly of the commercial beeks who transport their colonies all over the country. As a local beekeeper, I know ALL of the crops within 3-5 miles of where my hives are placed and I deliberately keep them out of reach of GMO crops and farmers who use commercial herbicides and pesticides. I also aid the native pollinators like bumblebees and mason bees.

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By: Mike Travis https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-death-of-bees-explained-parasites-poisons-and-humans/#comment-16706 Fri, 18 Dec 2015 00:57:22 +0000 http://keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=2276#comment-16706 For all we know, this is an intentional plan of global elitists who want to depopulate the earth to just 5% of current population levels. These criminals have openly admitted their goal of eliminating 95% of the human population on the earth which is genocide on a level never before conceived. Time for people to wake up to the fact that global elites are the most hideous criminals that ever existed.

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