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You Bee Dead, Honey?
updated: Jul 11, 2012, 8:40 PM

By Edhat Subscriber

We find a lot of dead honey bees daily.. Is this common?

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COMMENT 296568P	2012-07-11 08:45 PM
Where are you located? I have not noticed in the lower east of the city.
COMMENT 296587	2012-07-12 06:03 AM
Honey bees work until their wings are shredded and can't fly anymore. Then they drop and die.
COMMENT 296589P	2012-07-12 06:18 AM
"smart" meters & electrosmog...dead bees come with widespread "smart" meter installs, along with all the "unrelated" structure fires. It's worth a google, but scroll down - the first listed sites and their "science" are paid for by the utility companies - with our money - the abundance of actual data can be found lower down.
COMMENT 296599	2012-07-12 07:15 AM
They recently found two things that are contributing to hive collapse due to the low levels of a pesticide that was thought to be non-toxic to bees. The pesticide causes the bees to be forgetful about how to get back to the hive and this can be deadly for them. It also makes them more susceptible to the effects of the mites that they have. My co-worker has some hives and is very knowledgeable; he says that now he has to include some africanized bee dna in his queens so they are strong enough to get rid of the mites and take care of the hive. He also sprinkles powdered sugar on them at regular intervals because in cleaning off the sugar they also get rid of the mites. Some beekeeper in SLO gives classes at Cal Poly that are very popular. This all comes from articles in the LA Times.
LEAHKING	2012-07-12 07:17 AM
yes, bees are in big trouble right now. this has been on the news lately. it is not good. wide spread use of pesticides is killing them off. i find them around dead a lot around my neighborhood here in carpinteria/ now that you mention it, that has been worse since the smart meters were installed. wonder if it would help a little if we are grew more organic flowers...
COMMENT 296606P	2012-07-12 07:26 AM
587, Kinda like what human drones are expected to do now that they want to take away all our retirement years.
COMMENT 296613	2012-07-12 07:33 AM
I have notice in Old Town Goleta that there are more bees down in the grass- my dog wants to eat them.
COMMENT 296617P	2012-07-12 07:38 AM
Smart meters causing bees to die.... Seriously
COMMENT 296636	2012-07-12 08:32 AM
YES, for about 4 years now we have been finding dead bees all over our driveway, sometimes as many as 7-8/day. I wondered what was going on.
COMMENT 296640	2012-07-12 08:37 AM
Good post 599. That is what I read too, regarding bees loosing directional sense from accumulated pesticide. As for smart meters, why is every bad thing in the last three months blamed on smart meters. I mean really? Causing bees to die? Do you know how much EM energy at various frequencies is running through the air right now and has been for years? Smart meters are nothing.
COMMENT 296641	2012-07-12 08:39 AM
Yes, I have found numerous dead bees on my backyard patio. The other day I picked up what seemed like 15-20 of them.
COMMENT 296643	2012-07-12 08:43 AM
Yes, I live in Solvang and have been noticing many poor dead bees. Driving on the freeway recently I encountered what seemed like millions of bees flying across the road. My car was a total mess, I had to pull over to clear the bees from the windshield. Don't know why the bees were swarming like that, must have gotten miss placed from their hive.
COMMENT 296645	2012-07-12 08:44 AM
617: Bees actually use the Earth's magnetic fields to navigate, making it plausible that smart meters do play a role. Not saying its necessarily the cause, but discounting it without any evidence is a good way to end up wrong.
COMMENT 296657	2012-07-12 09:02 AM
Wow...my husband and I were noticing the very same thing over the past several months. I contemplated posting about it here but figured I would be ridiculed.
COMMENT 296665P	2012-07-12 09:15 AM
296645 - well then, everyone should turn off their cell phones for good - since there are far, far more of them than Smart Meters, and are far stronger. "1. If there is something going on, the big culprit will have to be the cell phone, since the radiation exposure there is so much higher than all the other sources. Compared to cell phones, the smart meter isn’t a “log” on the fire, it’s more like a broom straw. So we should keep looking at the cell phone research, but in 20+ years, not much to be worried about has emerged." http://open4energy.com/forum/home/sma/smart_meters_el ectromagnetic_health_risk So a smart meter is a "broom straw" in comparison to a cell phone. Next time an article is written about smart meters and their scary effects, think cell phones instead. I doubt very much that people will give up their cell phones.
COMMENT 296669	2012-07-12 09:21 AM
665, thats another issue entirely. Cell phones aren't a huge source of electrical current, thus don't induce a large magnetic field. I also think people should turn off their cell phones for good, but for the reason that they negatively affect social interaction.
SBJULES	2012-07-12 09:21 AM
Actually, we've had a lot of bees in our garden lately and they are all alive. No pesticides here. Bees do swarm at certain times of the year.
COMMENT 296674	2012-07-12 09:30 AM
From what I've been looking at over the years the first culprit appears to be Neonicotinoid pesticides, then the ocean of microwave pollution (meters, phones et al). Besides earth's magnetic flux lines, bees navigate using the polarized light patterns of the sky. The sun light is more white and less yellow than it used to be. Coupled with the chemtrail particles there is a good possibility that polarizations of the sky sectors has/is changed(ing). Bees can see way into the ultra violet range of light too...ozone holes? Near Bishop Diego High School we find a couple dead & dying bees in the driveway every day. So sad to see these little hardworking souls end up this way.
COMMENT 296680	2012-07-12 09:34 AM
@613 my dogs eat them too...and never get stung. It's very amusing to watch them awkwardly sniff, bite, and swallow the little critters.
COMMENT 296695	2012-07-12 09:50 AM
Yahoo has a story about a man in LA who found 50,000 bees living in his walls. The man who removed them said the hives had been there for about 6 to 8 months. Yikes. But it's a pretty hopeful story amongst all the scary ones about bees dying out.
COMMENT 296699P	2012-07-12 09:52 AM
From what I've read, the main suspect in colony collapse disorder is currently systemic pesticides, like what you (hopefully "used to") put on your roses to stop the aphids. Thus, I've stopped using systemic pesticides.
COMMENT 296712P	2012-07-12 10:07 AM
Yes, Bayer Rose Systemic is awful, don't use it! It's NOT innocuous. Plant other things that don't get fungal diseases--you can still have a pretty, fragrant garden. The bees will thank you!
COMMENT 296719	2012-07-12 10:12 AM
On top of mites, viruses and many other threats, a parasitic fly has recently been identified that has made the switch from bumble bees to honey bees, turning them into so-called "zombie bees". This tiny fly parasite has been positively identified from SB. Google "zombie bee" Scientific American Blog and PLoS One are good articles. To see if this is a cause of your dead bees, scrape one or more bees into a jar, seal and observe for a week or two. The fly larva crawls out of the dead bee's head after eating it from the inside out and forms a pupa.
COMMENT 296724	2012-07-12 10:16 AM
Non-ionizing, high-frequency, pulsed radiation excites biologic tissue. This will heat the tissue (or any [conductive] substance containing water...think of the microwave oven). The rapid pulsing has a mechanical shock effect on the tissue...like a matrix of miniature jack hammers working on components of living cells (nucleus, mitochondria, DNA, etc.). Interactions of the ubiquitous microwave radiations also produce interference/standing waves. This is all cumulative. Every "straw" in the fire counts...getting harder and harder to avoid this stuff.
COMMENT 296725	2012-07-12 10:17 AM
Agree with 674, that electricity is probably of much lower concern than toxins. However, it is the type of previous disregard for exploration of all possibilites before coming to a sound theory that gives rise to widespread misinformation. We forget that collectively, animals aside from humans have much different and simpler/more sophisticated means to go about living.
COMMENT 296727	2012-07-12 10:17 AM
Okay. Here is the skinny. I have had bees for 10 years. Bees 101-50,000 to 75,000 is normal hive size. Don't mess with them, they won't mess with you. Africanized bees have a 'bitchy' queen, replace her with a calm American queen, problem gone, they calm down. Dying en mass? Pesticides. Weakens immune system. It's collective. Growers in the area use toxic chemicals. Bees mirror what happens in people, but it takes longer with us. Dehydration. They need water flow or fountains to thrive. Have a swarm, get a beeman to set you up with a bee box I GET 60 POUNDS OF HONEY EVER YEAR! :~)) and they thrive! xo - tink
COMMENT 296728P	2012-07-12 10:18 AM
Almost every type of insecticide is toxic to bees to some degree. This year the oak moth cycle wasn't stopped by a mid-winter cold snap, so the oak moth caterpillars continue to munch and people continue to spray their city oaks, particularly older oaks that stress when they lose lots of leaves to oak moth. All those tree sprays are more or less toxic to bees and the spray residual drifts through the area. Perhaps you are in an neighborhood where people like less pock-marked gardens and trees, and spray more. Also I have been told that there is county spraying for mosquitoes as a precaution to keep down West Nile virus. Those sprays aren't good for bees either. Don't know if this rumor is true.
COMMENT 296773	2012-07-12 11:43 AM
It is Romney's fault.
COMMENT 296781	2012-07-12 12:17 PM
6719: Eeeewwww! And....are WE next???
COMMENT 296785	2012-07-12 12:30 PM
they're not indigenous. go home, bees.
COMMENT 296795	2012-07-12 01:03 PM
Can't say I have noticed dying bees, but up at the SB Highlands I have been noticing a ton of roly polys...you know, those little grey pill bugs. (We used to call them potato bugs back east but a potato bug is a whole different animal back here) They are everywhere. All over the ground and the walls. Been here 5 years and this is the first time I have seen this many.
DRBUD	2012-07-12 03:47 PM
Dead and dying ones are all over the muni golf course every time I play there.
COMMENT 296906	2012-07-12 05:53 PM
657...ridiculed on Edhat? Surely you jest.
COMMENT 297147	2012-07-13 11:40 AM
The bees near my place near Manning Park appear to be alive and well. An hour ago, I heard lots of loud yelling. I ran outside. I saw two workers with orange vests on. One was standing on the rocks in the creek bed, the other one was hanging on a rope right up close to a tall tree Unfortunately, I don't speak Spanish, so I am just giving a visual account. The guy was apparently yelling for the guy on the ground to lower him FAST. At first I thought that there was something wrong with the rope. I thought that he was going to fall several times. Finally, he landed in the creek bed hard. I thought that he was hurt from falling on the rocks, because he didn't get up fast. Then I saw him frantically swinging his arms trying to get the bees away. I yelled down to them that I was calling 911. They hurried away to the grassy area at Manning Park. The ambulance was there for about 20 minutes or so. I hope that the worker is ok.
COMMENT 297359	2012-07-13 08:58 PM
Re "smart" meters Drop v=XgahFhmjFHM&feature=related into the YouTube search box. People and whole communities are warring--and winning--with power companies and jurisdictions over the arrogant assessments of charges for opting out--and yes, use Americans with Disabilities Act if YOU get headaches from one. This war for independence from pulsed microwaves blankets the country and the Hawaiian Islands as well. And everyone--do your own research. Bees ARE dying. Bats ARE dying. Pollinators and insect eaters are leaving. Put 2 and 2 together and act like your survival matters.
COMMENT 297885	2012-07-15 05:00 PM
@296645 No, that does not make it plausible.

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