Save The Honey Bees

We need to save the honey bee
A friend to you
A friend to me

Without their buzzing
Pollinating path
The fruits the flowers
Just do the math

Many of these
Will not produce

No Fruit
Or nuts and
No more juice.

WWF info on Tiger Preservation

Here is current info on the WWF efforts to save the Tigers. Informative with pictures.
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NBC STORY ON THE VANISHING BEES

Tonight, NBC did a story on the vanishing bees. The story ignored the evidence from France and Germany, as have most stories carried in our mainstream media, that pesticides are the culprit, while suggesting, instead, the reasons for the vanishing bees may be a virus or mites.

Well surprise, surprise. The problem is likely not mites, or viruses, but pesticides. Specifically IMD and neonicotinoids and a product called Gaucho produced by the German drug company Bayer. These pesticides sprayed on almond groves and sunflowers as well as many other crops, attack the bees nervous systems killing them with large exposure and in smaller amounts causing the bees too lose their way and leave their hives while behaving like a bunch of aimless, hapless drunks. Think whisky in the watercoolers of the major corporations of America, daily and for months at a time, and imagine the possible mess.

Only in America, would major evidence from beekeepers in this country as well as French bee keepers and the French courts, which lays the blame on these pesticides, be ignored because of interests of big business. Big business which funds our research, and funds chairs in our universities. The same tentacled Octopus which challenges global warming and skews the results on that major problem.

It is possible the bee departure is not a chemical problem. It is possible it is mites or viruses.... It is possible. But if you read the book A Spring Without Bees by Michael Schacker, (see link partway down the left side of the page) you cannot help wonder if this is yet one more story where the people are not being told the truth. Iraq War anyone!

Save The Bees.

Congress listens to Plight of Bees

Yes, they listened but will they hear. Money has been set aside for research but it still needs to be voted on by the complete house. Call your representative...this game is not tiddlywinks... and Colony Collapse Disorder may lead to greater problems than higher food prices until we place some regulations on IMD and other neonicotinoid pesticides. The good news is Colony Collapse Disorder is reversible... the bad news is, well just another piece of bad economic news.... but only peripherally... Well maybe not (George Bush loves big business). Can we blame this on the worst president our nation has ever known. In part, certainly!

See Cnn

Biofuels responsible for 75% increase in global food prices

See Deeply Imbedded's Post

An Important New Book On Colony Collapse Disorder

A Spring Without Bees, by Michael Schacker, and The Lyons Press:

Is an important new book. I recommend it to anyone who wishes to learn the history of the honey bee and understand the problem of the disappearing bees. This well written narrative describes the problem, and the science while tracing man and the bees intertwined history. After reading it those of us at Save the Bees were even more worried for the bee and mankind. You will find a picture of the book on the left hand side of the blog...just click on it.

One week later up pop the yellows

To Mow Or Not To Mow

A Study In Contrast
Save The Bees --Save the Gas
Quit Polluting ---Stop Cutting the Grass.

A Special Garden For The Honey Bees

Hi folks. Are you tired of your lawn... all that mowing... that fertilizing... all that combustion, all that boring green order? Well, here is an answer. Do like we did at Blue View lane with our Wildflower meadow.

Here we have ferns and flowers, Rye grass and playground mix, Daisies, Lupine, and multi colored Phlox.... all wild and wondrous. And we have tossed away the lawn mower, that polluter of air and sky, that noisy bane of sensibility. And while it pollutes a bit and makes some noise (but nothing like a mower) our landscaping tool of choice is a Huskvarna string trimmer. We use this to sculpt the grasses, to slash the ferns, and judiciously preserve our myriad wildflowers. A push here, a high slash there, and voila we sculpt our hillside into a giant undulating bouquet. With this device you become a sculptor of the fern and fauna. Much more fun, and way more creative....

So, go out and get those Wild flower seeds from Zeeland Michigan, toss them about, then watch as your yard turns into a wild garden that will stretch through the summer. First blues, then pinks, then reds, oranges and yellows until late summer when you will see the wild Cosmos and Gloriousa Daisy.Your lawn will become history. Hopefully the bees will come, and you will enjoy a benign wild garden just outside your window.

Save The Bees: Raise Money for Your Cause.

Here is an excellent program designed to Save the Bees and support your environmental cause and organization. See The Information Page