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Scientists Discover What’s Killing The Bees

Friday, January 30, 2015 9:36
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As we’ve written before, the mysterious mass die-off of honey bees that pollinate $30 billion worth of crops in the US has so decimated America’s apis melliferapopulation that one bad winter could leave fields fallow. Now, a new study has pinpointed some of the probable causes of bee deaths and the rather scary results show that averting beemageddon will be much more difficult than previously thought.

Scientists had struggled to find the trigger for so-called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) that has wiped out an estimated 10 million beehives, worth $2 billion, over the past six years. Suspects have included pesticides, disease-bearing parasites and poor nutrition. But in a first-of-its-kind study published today in the journal PLOS ONE, scientists at the University of Maryland and the US Department of Agriculture have identified a witch’s brew of pesticides and fungicides contaminating pollen that bees collect to feed their hives. The findings break new ground on why large numbers of bees are dying though they do not identify the specific cause of CCD, where an entire beehive dies at once.

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  • Well, please understand any study done by a government employee, (all college teachers and researchers) will get fired for telling the truth. Genetically Modified Vegetables, (GMO) and fruits have one thing in common, when an insect is attracted to the flowers or fruits to eat or pollinate, they become poisoned. The GMO species purpose is to keep it insect free. As soon as the insect takes in any part of the plant, within a few hours the insect start to explode from the inside out. The job is to have insect free food for us humans. This GMO food kills good insect too, like Bees. Monsanto did not do studies on humans who eat this food because the FDA did not require it. The bees are dying from GMO pollination. Also remember, since 2011, Fukushima is polluting the earths air and water and ocean with the radiation equal to 118 Hiroshima type Nuclear Bombs each day. That is 118 per day of radiation leaking into the environment.

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