tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413177885465250750.post2996550719020808356..comments2024-02-17T00:04:59.035-08:00Comments on The good life: Honey bee declineMuddyValleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561027881611420247noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413177885465250750.post-54795054249486604512016-02-03T00:29:39.456-08:002016-02-03T00:29:39.456-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413177885465250750.post-9621287958890916892013-11-20T21:33:19.908-08:002013-11-20T21:33:19.908-08:00I wonder what the solution will be. Even with spra...I wonder what the solution will be. Even with spraying limited to when the crop isn't flowering, there will be over spray to other plants in flower. Once crops have been sprayed, the bees pick up trace amounts of some chemicals later on. Not a good time to be a bee. There are also mites, beetles moths, fungi, bacteria, and viruses they are having to contend with. Any time a hive is weak, it becomes susceptible to any or all of the above.MuddyValleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13561027881611420247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413177885465250750.post-8480484929418921852013-11-20T11:40:47.417-08:002013-11-20T11:40:47.417-08:00Farm pesticides are likely at least part of the pr...Farm pesticides are likely at least part of the problem . With the thousands (millions) of acres of RR canola grown here it is only natural that the bees will gather pollen from the flowering crop. At some point many of those crops are sprayed with insecticides to control the "bad bugs". Unfortunately it is poisonous to all insects. I am still amazed at the hordes of dragonflies that survive and fly over the fields at harvest time. But then no insecticides went onto my crops.Ralph Goffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04873610891410100788noreply@blogger.com