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  • From: annallys Goodwin-Landher <annallys AT hotmail.com>
  • To: Randall Austin <ra41717 AT gmail.com>, OCBA <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [ocba] Bee hives and pesticides / possibly seeking Home for two good hives
  • Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 10:13:10 -0400


Roundup populates the gut of humans and will crowd out beneficial flora.  I suspect this happens to bees as well.  GMO corn gets sprayed between 4 and 7 times with herbicides and pesticides and you may not know if there are additional pesticides being used.  Before the seeds planted the grounds sprayed/impregnated with pesticide's, effectively killing beneficial micro organisms and probably worms.   They may be using neo nics, and you  wouldn't know it, as it affects the bees sub-lethally so the companies that make it can say it's not a cause of bee death. http://www.dadant.com/news/insecticide-causes-changes-in-honeybee-genes-research-finds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY7iATJVCso
http://www.globalresearch.ca/monsanto-roundup-the-impacts-of-glyphosate-herbicide-on-human-health-pathways-to-modern-diseases/5342520
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/05/14/glyphosate.aspx

The copy of the most recent research that reported the above is no longer on the web - tried finding the page from my bookmarks, a common practice for keeping the citizenry ignorant.  Went to a different source and found it on the global research and Mercola websites.  I would not want to eat honey or pollen that was exposed to glyphosate or neo nics.


Annallys Goodwin-Landher
PO Box 2744
Chapel Hill, NC 27515
919 933-9109
annallys AT hotmail.com

Four years after the bees are gone, humanity is gone.

Albert Einstein




Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 19:14:56 -0400
From: ra41717 AT gmail.com
To: ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [ocba] Bee hives and pesticides / possibly seeking Home for two good hives

Cole & Sally,

Roundup is a herbicide, not an insecticide. The product label (the legal requirement for application) for Roundup Pro does not include any known risks for pollinators, nor is it harmful for humans. Test results on honey bees, detailed in the MSDS, were:
Honey bee (Apis mellifera):
Oral/contact,48 hours, LD50:> 100μg/bee
Practically non-toxic.

There has never been any evidence that GMO crops harm bees, nor is there any logical reason that they would do so.

So I wouldn't (and don't) worry. Use of Roundup is incredibly widespread in the USA and if it were actually causing genuine problems for honey bees, that would be obvious.

Randall Austin

On 7/4/2014 6:08 PM, Cole Rizki wrote:
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I am currently in the same boat as Sally, any suggestions welcome. 

-Cole

On Jul 4, 2014, at 5:26 PM, SALLY HOWARD <sallyhoward AT centurylink.net> wrote:

Hello
Would any members be able to tell me how harmful " Round Up" might be to a bee colony.  I have two healthy colonies that I keep out in the country as I have too much shade at my house.
Unfortunately the place where the hives are situated is next to a field where a farmer planted GMO corn ( about 500 - 1000 feet away.. I have discovered today that the farmer intends to spray the corn with Roundup and nitrogen soon and I am unable to find out when.
What are OCBA' members thoughts on this? Is this a situation where the bees would be doomed by this ? If this would inevitably result in the sudden death of the bees I would like to relocate the hives.
many thanks for any input.

Sally

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