Hi Thom. You know how to get my attention. I wasn't able to get your link to work, but I googled your title and came up with several articles (one is pasted below for those who are interested).
While those of us who follow the bizarre phenomenon of Colony Collapse Disorder where literally billions of bees began abandoning their hives (leaving the queen, the brood, and all the honey behind), this appears to be a new and unrelated event--likely due to pesticides as this article stipulates.
All I can say is...What the heck are we doing to our planet!???? Somehow, I don't think Jung would have been surprised by any of this, and HIllman certainly would have provided an earful on the subject. I think we need an Occupy Earth movement!
Honeybee carcasses coated the ground around hundreds of Florida beehives after a mysterious massacre claimed millions of bees and mutilated a way of life for local bee keepers.
Experts have ruled out ‘colony collapse disorder’ and the bee keepers suspect that their bees were poisoned with pesticide. Florida agriculture officials and the local sheriff’s office are both investigating.
No one can tell yet what killed as many as 12 million bees from 800 hives this week in Brevard County, on central Florida’s Atlantic coast.
The massive bee die-off has stung Charles Smith, whose Smith Family Honey Company lost $150,000 worth of bees.
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Hi Thom. You know how to get my attention. I wasn't able to get your link to work, but I googled your title and came up with several articles (one is pasted below for those who are interested).
While those of us who follow the bizarre phenomenon of Colony Collapse Disorder where literally billions of bees began abandoning their hives (leaving the queen, the brood, and all the honey behind), this appears to be a new and unrelated event--likely due to pesticides as this article stipulates.
All I can say is...What the heck are we doing to our planet!???? Somehow, I don't think Jung would have been surprised by any of this, and HIllman certainly would have provided an earful on the subject. I think we need an Occupy Earth movement!
Honeybee apocalypse: Up to 12 million bees dead and dying in Florid...
Michael Zennie
Daily Mail
October 3, 2011
Honeybee carcasses coated the ground around hundreds of Florida beehives after a mysterious massacre claimed millions of bees and mutilated a way of life for local bee keepers.
Experts have ruled out ‘colony collapse disorder’ and the bee keepers suspect that their bees were poisoned with pesticide. Florida agriculture officials and the local sheriff’s office are both investigating.
No one can tell yet what killed as many as 12 million bees from 800 hives this week in Brevard County, on central Florida’s Atlantic coast.
The massive bee die-off has stung Charles Smith, whose Smith Family Honey Company lost $150,000 worth of bees.