Bees

[Fly Rod]

Short segment was on and an asian country is doing a study with bees and cell phones. There had seem to be a die off when cell phone was placed beside a hive for a month.

I use to raise bees, had thirty hives and use to rent some of them out to others around the city. Back in the late seventies it was a mite that was killing off the bees.

It is illegal to kill honey bees.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by Fly Rod

I used to raise bees, had thirty hives and use to rent some of them out to others around the city. Back in the late seventies it was a mite that was killing off the bees.

It is illegal to kill honey bees.

i had fifty hives out in California .....

this disease has kept me from re entering the ring....

[Backbeach Jake]

My privets in Truro are loaded with the common honeybee right now as they blossom. They weren't there the last coupla years. There is another breed of honey bee that looks like a miniture bumble bee that was strangely absent last weekend. Your familiar huge bumblebee was present along with maybe 5-6 different butterflys. We'll see this coming weekend

[Fly Rod]

Originally Posted by Raven

i had fifty hives out in California .....

this disease has kept me from re entering the ring....

My wife hated late May or early June warm and humid days especially weekends if we had plans to go some place, that would be the time the bees would swarm and she would go by herself while I stayed home climbing a tree or what ever to capture a swarm.

[Raven]

I Just returned from a bee keepers farm

he told me that the scientists are zero- ing in on the cause
of colony collapse disorder CCD

and it's from the chemical people are using on their lawns to
kill the lawn grubs

apparently it collects in the pollen which the bees also collect
as their bread....

and in the fall it concentrates in the pollen and then makes them loose
there navigation abilities.