Archives – July, 2013
From: The Inquisitr
Monsanto recently held a Honey Bee Health Summit to address colony collapse disorder. The bee population has decreased drastically around the globe in recent years. The biotech giant acquired Beeologics from an Israeli company in 2011. Monsanto is attempting to convince beekeepers that the GMO seed and pesticide manufacturer wants to be proactive in the fight to save the bees.
Even if you do not like honey or keep bees, the health and population statistics of the little buzzing creatures is still extremely important. Without bees to pollinate crops, the global food supply and human population would quickly perish.
July 10, 2013
Editor’s Note: CRE Brazil is regulatory watchdog located in San Paulo, Brazil. The focus of its operations is to increase the transparency of Brazilian regulatory activities. The following article is from its website, http://cre.org.br/ (Portuguese)
July 8, 2013
Editor’s Note: The video below features Charles Runckel, a graduate student in the DeRisi lab, discussing development and use of a high tech “bee pathogen chip” to find the cause of bee health decline.
From: Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The video is available here.
July 5, 2013
From: Kansas City Star
By RICK MONTGOMERY
More than 150 people made a beeline earlier this year to an Independence workshop for beginning beekeepers.
So many, in fact, that Cathy Misko tapped Craigslist to buy 71 extra chairs.
And driving this heightened interest in the well-being of bees? Misko cited a mystery that has vexed scientists since 2006 — a worsening crisis called colony collapse disorder, or CCD.
“It’s like when the town’s on fire and you ring the bell,” said Misko, president of the Midwestern Beekeepers Association. “Everyone comes to help.”
July 3, 2013
Editor’s Note: There are countless articles about the importance of honeybees. Unfortunately, few reporters take the honeybee health seriously enough to get the facts right. For example, in the story below, the author correctly acknowledges the harm to bees from varrora mites, but then makes the incorrect statement that pesticides as well as mites are “decimating the bee population.” As the USDA explained, bee health decline is the result of “a complex set of stressors and pathogens” and that “researchers are increasingly using multi-factorial approaches to studying causes” of bee health problems.
July 1, 2013
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