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  • From: Jacqueline Greenleaf <jacque@book-woman.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] 37 Million Bees Found Dead In Ontario, Canada After Planting Large GMO Corn Field | Organic Health
  • Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:09:37 -0800

It’s true the world is a surprising place, but do bees collect corn pollen?
Corn is a wind-pollinated plant.



> On Nov 10, 2014, at 4:33 AM, Eisenhauer <eisenhauerdesign@earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
> The seed coating enters the plant systemically and is expressed in the
> pollen which bees collect to feed their brood. The studies done shows bees
> within flight distance of GMO corn treated with the systemic pesticides as
> a seed coat experience increased percentages of hive deaths. This Is old
> science well known by beekeepers like myself and thousands of others. This
> sort of die off occurred in the Rhine valley of Germany and so they banned
> the pesticides after fining Bayer Crop Science millions and reimbursing
> beekeepers for their losses. Really this is ignorance in action causing
> the inevitable result of failure to our living systems.
> Steven Eisenhauer.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: permaculture [mailto:permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On
> Behalf Of Lawrence London
> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2014 7:28 PM
> To: permaculture
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] 37 Million Bees Found Dead In Ontario, Canada
> After Planting Large GMO Corn Field | Organic Health
>
> On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Jacqueline Greenleaf <jacque@book-woman.net
>> wrote:
>
>> I’m puzzled.
>>
>> Let me say first that I hate GMOs and I am very concerned about
>> honeybees in particular and pollinators in general. And I think
>> neonics should be banned yesterday.
>>
>> But how could the planting of a wind-pollinated crop cause such
>> massive bee die-off? Further, it is not clear in the article that the
>> crop was even mature enough (what does a few weeks mean?) to even be
>> releasing pollen.
>>
>
> Because the SEEDS are COATED with NEONICOTINOID pesticides so that the seed
> and its sproutling will survive attacks from predatory insects and diseases.
> How the neonicotinoid coating spread into the environment so that bees can
> come in contact with them is the question; possibly airborne dust, rain
> washing it onto soil, into watercourses and impoundments and onto plants.
>
> Was the field sprayed with neonics?
>
>
> Its on the seeds, i.e. seed coatings, the new thing (as in frankenthing).
>
>
>> If so, the fact that the field was planted with GMOs has no bearing,
>> unless neonics are only applied to GMO corn, which I do not believe to
>> be the case. But the article does not say that any kind of pesticide
>> was applied to this field.
>>
>> In short, this is a very poorly written article. Now the world is full
>> of those, but I hate to see permies inflict on themselves a reputation
>> of fuzzy thinking.
>>
>
> Poor article but better than no article. Better to propagate badnews about
> neonicotinoids even if the site and its writers are less than dedicated
> (the way we would be).
>
>> Jacque
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Nov 8, 2014, at 8:35 AM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 37 Million Bees Found Dead In Ontario, Canada After Planting Large
>>> GMO
>> Corn
>>> Field
>>> <
>> http://organichealth.co/37-million-bees-found-dead-in-ontario-canada-a
>> fter-planting-large-gmo-corn-field/
>>> 37
>>> Million Bees Found Dead In Ontario, Canada After Planting Large GMO
>>> Corn Field | Organic Health
>>>
>> http://organichealth.co/37-million-bees-found-dead-in-ontario-canada-a
>> fter-planting-large-gmo-corn-field/
>>>
>>> Millions of bees dropped dead after GMO corn was planted few weeks
>>> ago in Ontario, Canada. The local bee keeper, Dave Schuit who
>>> produces honey in Elmwood lost about 37 million bees which are about 600
>>> hives.
>>>
>>> “Once the corn started to get planted our bees died by the millions,”
>>> Schuit said. While many bee keepers blame neonicotinoids, or “neonics.”
>> for
>>> colony collapse of bees and many countries in EU have banned
>> neonicotinoid
>>> class of pesticides, the US Department of Agriculture fails to ban
>>> insecticides known as neonicotinoids, manufactured by Bayer
>>> CropScience
>> Inc.
>>>
>>> Two of Bayer’s best-selling pesticides, Imidacloprid and
>>> Clothianidin,
>> are
>>> known to get into pollen and nectar, and can damage beneficial
>>> insects
>> such
>>> as bees. The marketing of these drugs also coincided with the
>>> occurrence
>> of
>>> large-scale bee deaths in many European countries and the United States.
>>>
>>> Nathan Carey another local farmer says that this spring he noticed
>>> that there were not enough bees on his farm and he believes that
>>> there is a strong correlation between the disappearance of bees and
>>> insecticide use.
>>>
>>> In the past, many scientists have struggled to find the exact cause
>>> of
>> the
>>> massive die-offs, a phenomenon they refer to as “colony collapse
>> disorder”
>>> (CCD). In the United States, for seven consecutive years, honeybees
>>> are
>> in
>>> terminal decline.
>>>
>>> US scientists have found 121 different pesticides in samples of
>>> bees, wax and pollen, lending credence to the notion that pesticides
>>> are a key problem. “We believe that some subtle interactions between
>>> nutrition, pesticide exposure and other stressors are converging to kill
>>> colonies,”
>>> said Jeffery Pettis, of the ARS’s bee research laboratory.
>>>
>>> The collapse in the global honeybee population is a major threat to
>> crops.
>>> It is estimated that a third of everything we eat depends upon
>>> honeybee pollination, which means that bees contribute over 30
>>> billion to the
>> global
>>> economy.
>>>
>>> A new study published in the Journal Proceedings of the National
>>> Academy
>> of
>>> Sciences revealed that neonicotinoid pesticides kill honeybees by
>> damaging
>>> their immune system and making them unable to fight diseases and
>> bacteria.
>>>
>>> After reporting large losses of bees after exposure to Imidacloprid,
>> banned
>>> it for use on corn and sunflowers, despite protests by Bayer. In
>>> another smart move, France also rejected Bayer’s application for
>>> Clothianidin,
>> and
>>> other countries, such as Italy, have banned certain neonicotinoids
>>> as
>> well.
>>>
>>> After record-breaking honeybee deaths in the UK, the European Union
>>> has banned multiple pesticides, including neonicotinoid pesticides.
>>>
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