good question.
"Hunter believes that CCD may have something to do with the stress put on migratory bee populations. They're constantly relocated and it makes some sense that they'd have a hard time continually finding their way back to their hive and queen.
Hegeman said he thinks a pesticide aimed at bee predators such as mites might play a role in the problem.
It's a nicotine-based pesticide that is primarily used in the areas where the most migrant pollinators are used -- which incidentally is where the greatest losses are being seen," he said. "It seems to make the bees disoriented and would account for them not finding their way back to the hives.
The us bees in the news aren't indigenous.
The stress on honeybees grew as native and wild pollinators diminished and farmers came to rely more on honeybees. We've put "all of our pollination eggs in the honeybee basket," says Mace Vaughan, conservation director of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation in Portland, Ore. "We need more baskets."
India's buzz on alien bees.
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"Hunter believes that CCD may have something to do with the stress put on migratory bee populations. They're constantly relocated and it makes some sense that they'd have a hard time continually finding their way back to their hive and queen.
Hegeman said he thinks a pesticide aimed at bee predators such as mites might play a role in the problem.
It's a nicotine-based pesticide that is primarily used in the areas where the most migrant pollinators are used -- which incidentally is where the greatest losses are being seen," he said. "It seems to make the bees disoriented and would account for them not finding their way back to the hives.
The us bees in the news aren't indigenous.
The stress on honeybees grew as native and wild pollinators diminished and farmers came to rely more on honeybees. We've put "all of our pollination eggs in the honeybee basket," says Mace Vaughan, conservation director of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation in Portland, Ore. "We need more baskets."
India's buzz on alien bees.
- steve 4-16-2007 7:08 pm