Tens of millions of Florida bees mysteriously drop dead in one day, beekeepers blame pesticides

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Ethan A. Huff,
Natural News
October 5, 2011

Authorities have already ruled out disease, including the infamous “Colony Collapse Disorder” (CCD), as the cause of a recent honeybee holocaust that took place in Brevard County, Florida. The UK’s Daily Mail reports that up to 12 million bees from roughly 800 apiaries in the area all dropped dead at roughly the same time around September 26 — and local beekeepers say pesticides are likely to blame.

CCD is the term often used to describe the inexplicable mass die-off of honeybees around the world, which typically involves honeybees leaving their hives and, for whatever reason, never finding their way back home. Mass die-offs associated with CCD often occur at seemingly random locations around the world, and typically involve a gradual process of disappearance and eventual colony collapse — and the dead bees are typically nowhere to be found.

But the recent Florida event involved hundreds of colonies from 30 different sites in a one-and-a-half mile radius literally dropping dead all at the same time and leaving their carcasses behind, which is why authorities have dismissed CCD as the cause. Based on the appearance of the dead bees, as well as the synchronous timing of their deaths, pesticide sprayings appear to be the culprit in this case.

“I’m a pretty tough guy, but it is heart wrenching,” said Charles Smith of Smith Family Honey Company to News 13 in Orlando. His family’s company lost an estimated $150,000 worth of bees in the recent die-off. “Not only is it a monetary loss here, but we work really hard on these bees to keep them in good health.”

The Florida die-off coincides with a recent county-wide mosquito eradication effort, during which helicopters flew over various parts of the county and sprayed airborne pesticides. Officials, of course, deny that this taxpayer-funded spraying initiative had anything to do with the bee genocide, though.

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“The fact that it was so widespread and so rapid, I think you can pretty much rule out disease,” said Bill Kern, an entomologist from the University of Florida (UF) toFlorida Today. “It happened essentially almost in one day. Usually diseases affect adults or the brood, you don’t have something that kills them both.”

Many of the beekeepers who lost their hives in the mass killing raised their bees to sell to American farmers, who then used them to pollinate food crops. Because of their massive losses, many of these beekeepers could end up losing their entire beekeeping businesses.

Sources for this story include:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art…

http://www.floridatoday.com/article…

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news…

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5 Responses to “Tens of millions of Florida bees mysteriously drop dead in one day, beekeepers blame pesticides”

  1. Prison Planet usually picks up on Drudge Report stories quicker than this. How many days ago did those bees die? Think drudge mentioned it two days ago.

    Alex Jones, why is it that your journalistic organization always selects headlines from what has already been announced on the Drudge Report. You claim to be researching and busy fact finding. But it seems you just go to drudge, copy a few headlines and occasionally add your own twist.

    Admittedly Drudge sometimes takes a headline from Prison Planet, but unfortunately Drudge then exposes millions in the public to Prison Planet blogs. Promoting the words of wind bags mental degenerates like Ricongirlscoutsniper, Tom, Peter Wolf etc is about the worst way to recruit dynamic intelligent people to the cause of liberty.

    So Alex if you are serious then act seriously. Don’t just fill up your web with recycled stories. Home in on an issues and be a master of them. And if you want a real following and the credibility need to promote liberty, then please dump the gang of idiots that haunt your blog pages. If you don’t, you will always be suspected as a saboteur of liberty.

    JCD Reply:
    October 5th, 2011 at 4:22 am

    If you use a little discernment you would know the source of the article is Natural News.

    Stop critizing and start coming up with a better alternative, create your own website, I’d be happy to visit it. Just critizing those that are actually doing something for liberty will not help you, your family or your future. Realize that.

    mpennery Reply:
    October 5th, 2011 at 4:24 am

    It’s quite easy to be a nameless criticizer. In case you haven’t noticed, Prison Planet is a current events news site. They don’t “home” in on stories and master them. There are other sites that cover fewer stories more in depth. While I agree their are some questionable characters at PP, I find most to be far more interesting and intelligent than most other ‘news’ sites. Colorful, mad and unique don’t mean stupid!
    As for your judgement of recycling news, you are clueless. PP actually creates original content. Drudge does not (news, not blogs). Drudge only copies from other sites.
    The cool thing is that if this isn’t good enough for you, you have the freedom to go somewhere else that you do like. Only a goddamn piece of shit cowardly f-ing loser goes to a site and complains about how inadequate it is, trying to prove how much smarter they think they are than everybody else!! Go start your own website the way you like it and build the millions of readers that Alex has done. If your way is so much better, let’s see it!!

    Matt

    Lexington, ky

  2. Playing with DNA will result is such tragedies. After that strain of contaminated DNA dies off, there’ll be a newer breed of bees without that strain.

  3. Does this bee keeper watch the skies for chemtrails?
    It seems like the chem trail activity has really picked up this year.
    It seems like they especially like to leave their cargo go in such a way that it drifts over factory farms.
    Could it be that this crap affects bees also?

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