Category Archives: Save the Bees
Did I goof up, or what?
Last week’s blog post drew a few interesting responses. Not from Monsanto, whom I expected would be outraged because I wrote that it is perhaps justifiable to vilify “the huge multinational for all manner of environmental ills.” Instead, incredibly, the … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, or lack thereof, Ecology, Pesticides, Save the Bees
Tagged Bayer, corn, Monsanto, neonicotinoids
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The bees’ funeral
Dead bees are back on the evening news. Last night our national news broadcaster, the CBC, had relatively extensive coverage of a honey bee funeral in Toronto. These Canadian heroes, encountering death in the line of duty, were celebrated with … Continue reading
Ecological Boldness
“Corporate profits trumping ecological needs,” according to the National Farmers Union’s own website. That rather provocative statement is from the NFU’s Vice President of Policy, Ann Slater. Remembering the days when much of the NFU’s musings were simply echoes of … Continue reading
Talking about bee science
Ted talks and so do bee scientists. Maybe you know Ted. TED, actually with capital letters, stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and the TED Talks are a series of conferences with great (entertaining) speakers. The talks are filmed and then … Continue reading
Getting away with murder
A bee-kill decision in Florida. According to The Ledger, beekeepers Barry Hart and Randall Foti lost $390,000 worth of bees and honey production when one of Florida’s largest citrus producers sprayed pesticides. (The loss does not seem exaggerated. For example, … Continue reading
Posted in Beekeeping, Culture, or lack thereof, People, Pesticides, Save the Bees
Tagged Ben Hill Griffin, citrus, Florida, Florida's Natural, imidacloprid, insecticide, lawsuits
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CBC discovers CCD
CBC Evening News Blames Neonics for Colony Collapse… In a touching – and sad – news program from CBC’s National, we see the story of an Ontario beekeeper who is losing his bees. View the complete video on YouTube. CBC … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, or lack thereof, Pesticides, Save the Bees
Tagged Bayer, CBC, colony collapse disorder, neonicotinoids
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Time to say goodbye – or maybe not
Bees have made the cover of Time. Missing bees, that is. The cover announces “A World without Bees” and promises to disclose “the price we’ll pay” if we can’t stop the bee losses. I’m not sure exactly what triggered this … Continue reading
What’s happening to the bees?
It seems that the strange syndrome beekeepers call “Colony Collapse Disorder” was not so bad this year. CCD has been blamed for poor wintering in recent years – in Canada, losses had averaged over 20% for the past decade. Manitoba … Continue reading
Bayer’s Headache
The past year saw Bayer (your headache company) in the news quite a bit. A very serious study conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health linked Bayer’s pesticide imidacloprid to Colony Collapse Disorder and published the findings in June’s … Continue reading
May Swarming
A friend sent this to me: “Spring has sprung, But the bees are not swarming… Could this be due to global warming?” I like this little ditty – it works on so many levels. It’s May. Here in Calgary, finally, … Continue reading
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