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The Top 4 Reasons for the Bees Dying Off
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 17:19
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Why are all the bees dying off? It has been a few years since the world started to become aware of the phenomenon of bees dying off, and labeled it CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder). It is a grave concern, for we are totally dependent upon the bees to pollinate and help food grow. Einstein famously said that if bees disappeared from the Earth, humanity would only survive for around another 4 years. The subject of bees dying off has been in the news again lately, with a study done by researchers from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), Macquarie University in Sydney, Washington University in St Louis and the University of Sydney. Their study concluded that the problem may be bee stress. They found that stress factors were leading to older bees dying more quickly than normal, leading to a situation where younger bees had to begin foraging earlier than they would have otherwise, which in turn was leading to a younger foraging population, poorer performance and quicker deaths of foragers.
If this study is correct and bees stress is the cause of CCD, it leads then to a further question: what are the stress factors causing bee numbers to decline? Some have attributed the bees dying off to a particular cause, but in my opinion, the bees are actually under a quadruple assault, and Monsanto and its Big Agra pals are only half the problem …
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