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  • From: "John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Sampling of bee and other pollinator sightings this year by list subscribers wherever you are.
  • Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 01:51:48 +0100


I still think that other factors besides neonicotinoids are doing pollinators no good. Reason I say this is that in my area I can not see anybody using these insectisides within a ten mile radius and maybe farther and still the pollinators are declining fast.
Mobile phone masts were mentioned before and I think this may well be true. And maybe there are other factors that we still don't know about. It is most probably a combination of several factors all combining to give the effect we see.
This does not mean that we should not stop the use of neonicotinoids immediately.
john in Ireland

I am located in Olympia, Wa. Over the last 6 years, members of the Olympia
Beekeepers Association have experienced average hive losses similar to
other areas: 30-37%.

Over this last winter, this leaped up to an alarming 75-85% of hives. It's
not just amateurs making in beginner mistakes (we've had a huge influx of
new students to our apprentice program), but includes experienced
professionals with 40-50 years of experience managing bees. In addition
bumblebees and other pollinators are way down. Some of the 12 native
species of bumblebees in Washington have seen decreases of 97%.

Just within the past few weeks this was published by xerces.org, Xerces
Society for Invertebrate Preservation

http://www.xerces.org/neonicotinoids-and-bees/

Ya think maybe they're related? Duh. Xerces thinks so. If you don't read
the entire 44 page pdf report, at least read the executive summary.

John O'Brien


On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Lawrence F. London, Jr. <
venaurafarm@bellsouth.net> wrote:


A friend suggested I take a poll in the list to see what bees and other
pollinators everyone has seen this year around the world. He lives in
mid eastern NC and is alarmed at the lack of honeybees he has seen since
early spring. He is on the edge of a vast truck farming region in the
state but may of the crops grown are heavily dependent on pollinators
and commercial beekeepers bring many thousands of hives to these farms
each year, attempting to time their arrival and departure between
pesticide applications.

What pollinators have you seen where you are this year? more, less,
bumper crop, none?

I have plenty on my 6+ acres because I encourage them and have three
small wet weather ponds. I have huge crops of wildflowers for them to
gather pollen from and I leave them where they are and hope the stands
will get bigger (daisies, goldenrod, tulip poplar, blackberries, wild
roses, ragweed, eleagnus, wild cherry, wild plum and many more).

LL
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