30 April 2007
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# posted by Henry @ 12:24 PM 
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Malnutrition is affecting the bee population.
Got this from one of the sites . . This site give you an overview on VBS (known as CCD, colony collapse disorder) and also goes into specifics on each of the theories including malnutrition. It talks about "extraordinary stress" being put on the bees because of poor nutrition. Some researchers have attributed the syndrome to the practice of feeding high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) to supplement winter stores. However, if this was the only factor, then this should lead to the exclusive appearance of CCD in wintering colonies being fed this, but many of the reports occur in colonies where the beekeeper does not use HFCS.
I do think that this an important issue. Its not as important to me as some other environmental issues, but its still significant enough to worry about. We definitely need bees more than they need us. They keep many plants around.
Instead of bees, like miss lechase said, we could use some kind of man-made device to pollenate plants.
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Got this from one of the sites . . This site give you an overview on VBS (known as CCD, colony collapse disorder) and also goes into specifics on each of the theories including malnutrition. It talks about "extraordinary stress" being put on the bees because of poor nutrition. Some researchers have attributed the syndrome to the practice of feeding high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) to supplement winter stores. However, if this was the only factor, then this should lead to the exclusive appearance of CCD in wintering colonies being fed this, but many of the reports occur in colonies where the beekeeper does not use HFCS.
I do think that this an important issue. Its not as important to me as some other environmental issues, but its still significant enough to worry about. We definitely need bees more than they need us. They keep many plants around.
Instead of bees, like miss lechase said, we could use some kind of man-made device to pollenate plants.
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