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Bee Die-Off

Report Shows Honeybee Decline Is Global

(Beyond Pesticides, March 14, 2011) Scientists working for the United Nations (UN) reveal in a report published March 10, 2011 that the collapse of honeybee colonies is now a global phenomenon that could have devastating consequences.

“A disaster in the making”: New book on the massive decline of bees and birds (Press Release, October 29, 2010 Coalition against Bayer Dangers)

Researchers Link Viruses, Genes and Pesticides to Bee Colony Collapse (Beyond Pesticides, September 8, 2009 -Posted in Chemicals, Imidacloprid, Pollinators, Wildlife/Endangered).

EPA Initiates Review for Pesticide Linked to Honeybee Decline  ( (Beyond Pesticides, July 16, 2009)

Several SK beekeepers' hives were affected by what seemed like Colony Collapse Disorder in 2007. There are many factors negatively affecting bee colonies. These vary from the importation of bees which are not necessarily adapted to our conditions (such as from New Zealand) to a series of individual and hive parasites. Some hives could also be stressed from frequent transportation, from all the antibiotics and pesticides used to control mites and other problems in hives, or from the inadequacy of the winter diet fed by the beekeepers. The following articles should give you an overview of the problem.

Organic farmers have also pointed out that the commercial size of the brooding cells in the combs are larger than in wild bees and that the extra time it takes young bees to come out encourages their infection by mites.  

(Michael Bush's site: http://www.bushfarms.com/bees.htm)

What kills our bees and pollinators (Hjertaas April 2007)

Bees Thrive Away from Cropland. (Pennsylvania, Nov. 2007)

Colony collapse Disorder Action Plan U.S. - July 2007 will include looking at the role
of pesticides.