Honeybees Vanish, Leaving Keepers In Peril

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Roaming their nation in 18-wheelers looking for work ... does that
sound like a honey-bee you know? That sounds more like big
business with another factory-farmed product.

Cows, birds, fish ... when factory-farmed, all doomed.

Our songbirds, way out in the boondocks, without any heavy industries, or chemical agribiz anywhere near, have been disappearing for years and now we hardly have any swallows left.

I have about a dozen tree swallow nests, that used to be swarming and full every year with the girls sitting in and defending them from late comers. 2 years ago, when I cleaned them out in the Fall, every one of them was prepared with hay and chicken feathers, but not one single egg, or any sign of hatching in any.

Last year we had about 2 pairs who came and hatched their eggs. We haven't had any barn swallows for years and the hundreds of cliff swallows that used to be a royal pain are also completely gone.

We used to wake up in the mornings to the song of hundreds of birds, now the summer mornings are silent.

The only thing we can think for the cause is that they're being killed off by agribiz , monoculture chemicals that steal their calls and they can't reproduce and die out.

But the GDP is growing and GM foods will save the day ???

Ed Deak.

Ed,

We too have been noticing the bees and birds disappearing for the last 4 years. No swallows nested in our houses last summer. Even though I create a huge amount of flower gardens every summer to attract butterflies and bees they are no longer coming. Last year I saw ONE, yes one swallowtail on the lilac bush and usually it is covered when in bloom. I am waiting for this spring to see if it is going to be a pattern or was an anomaly.

This article makes me think of how cross breeding and changing the natural makup of our world will likely be the demise of it because the very things that have allowed these things to live on the planet through all kinds of adversity is being altered.

I remember watching a documentary many years ago about a concerned scientist wandering the planet looking for an original breed of apple tree and he never found one that he could definately conclude to be an original they have all been so hybridized.

The banana is also in trouble for the same reasons.

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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche

Rachel Carson Lives On!!<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring</a><p>---<br>"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." <br />
-Max Planck<br />
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I have been spraying DDT, plus a whole slew of other poisons for 7 years, between 1948-55, in England, and watched how the bugs developed immunity to all of them, while my workmates died soon after I left and I was the only survivor. I was paralyzed for months 4 years ago, with the poisons circulating in my body, 50 years later, but was pulled out by a homeopathic practitioner with great suffering.

As my dear old friend, George Kester of Hardwick, about 5 miles from Cambridge, said one day "I'm telling you Eddie mate, the only thing we're doing here is breeding f.... superbugs" He was right on and paid with his life to multiple cancers within a few years.

Ed Deak.

Last year in Edmonton I did not see any robins, finchs or other small birds, I saw crows, seagulls and magpies. I saw no bees and I was actually glad to see hornets around a dumpster for a couple off weeks. During rainstorms there were no worms seeking refuge on the sidewalks, I attribute it to the chemtrails that they cover our skies with year round now.

We have a neighbor who is deathly afraid of bees and hornets, she grows flowers anyway and sits on the patio outside occasionaly running into the house shrieking if a winged wonder approachs too close to her. Last year she told me she was not bothered at all because there were no bees or other buzzers around her flowers.

And to think that we (our dear leaders) have all suddenly jumped on the "green" bandwagon.............

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"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
-Max Planck

I used to have many hummingbirds darting around my place too. I have half a dozen 'nectar' (coloured sugar water) feeders that always seemed to have one feeding at it during the summer. Last couple years, I'd be lucky to catch a glimpse of one or two a week.

The bees seem to be the same victims of the warm weather as the mountain pine beetle. Some sort of fungus or mite is thought to be killing the bees, the fungus or mites would normally be killed by the cold weather. No bees - no flowers. No flowers - no hummingbirds.

Soon, no fruit trees, no corn, . . .I wonder if we can eat 'economic efficency'.

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"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden

Sure did! On the greeback bandwagon with strings of directorships after politics. Birds and bees didnt give Mulroney &Co. strings of them , neither will they give any to Harper & Co.

Ed Deak.

Speaking of barn swallows, I used to work for the department of highways here in Manitoba in the 1970s. We worked on bridges and many of these bridges had dozens of barn swallow nests. While I don't visit these bridges very often I haven't noticed as many barn swallow nests in recent years. As well, after Winnipeg gets doused in Malathion to curb the mosquito population, the days immediately following are eerily quiet. It’s pretty creepy.

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The fascinating (but frightening) information in this story and all these
comments really creates a vivid picture in our minds.

These stories -- used one at a time -- might be a better way of catching
our M.P.s' attention than just talking about compliance and co-operation
and all that rhetoric.

Thanks to everyone for sharing.

More corporate insanity! Pesticides, huge monocrop farms and now bees bred for polination rather than their natural function. We have to put these corporate gangsters on notice that they will be held accountable for their crimes at some future date.