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Index of Subjects ------=_Part_9991_12205669.1181069373683 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_Collapse_Disorder this is happening all over north america. i have been talking to farmers here in southern california, and they either have no idea what is happening, or suspect some kind of virus. i have read that there is a japanese mite that is spreading across the continent, and it's either the mite that is killing the bees, or a virus on the mite that is killing the bees. there are travelling bee colonies that are being hired to polinate crops, and they seem to be unaffected by it - i suspect because they are cleaned regularily. the 'natural' colonies are the ones being wiped out, that is, the ones that the beekeepers leave out in the fields, and are not properly maintained. there has been other talk of cell phone signals disrupting the bees navigation systems. a farmer told me the whole town of palm springs, CA was full of dead bees about a month ago. could be time to start planting new crops, methinks. -m On 6/5/07, Mike McCall <mikemccall@xcountry.tv> wrote: > > I have not seen a single bee near my two cherry and three apple trees > this year. > > Have other observers noted this? If so, although Nova Scotia seems to > be behind the > rest of the country in economic terms, we seem to be right up front > when undesirable > events occur. > > Mike McCall > Hall's Harbour > ------=_Part_9991_12205669.1181069373683 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_Collapse_Disorder<br><br>this is happening all over north america. i have been talking to farmers here in southern california, and they either have no idea what is happening, or suspect some kind of virus. i have read that there is a japanese mite that is spreading across the continent, and it's either the mite that is killing the bees, or a virus <span style="font-style: italic;">on</span> the mite that is killing the bees. <br><br>there are travelling bee colonies that are being hired to polinate crops, and they seem to be unaffected by it - i suspect because they are cleaned regularily. the 'natural' colonies are the ones being wiped out, that is, the ones that the beekeepers leave out in the fields, and are not properly maintained. <br><br>there has been other talk of cell phone signals disrupting the bees navigation systems. <br><br>a farmer told me the whole town of palm springs, CA was full of dead bees about a month ago. <br><br>could be time to start planting new crops, methinks. <br><br>-m<br><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike McCall</b> <mikemccall@xcountry.tv> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I have not seen a single bee near my two cherry and three apple trees<br>this year.<br><br>Have other observers noted this? If so, although Nova Scotia seems to<br>be behind the<br>rest of the country in economic terms, we seem to be right up front <br>when undesirable<br>events occur.<br><br>Mike McCall<br>Hall's Harbour<br></blockquote></div><br> ------=_Part_9991_12205669.1181069373683--
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