[Thigmaswams]

hi all,

i think the bee issue is very much related to gm crops being planted in the us. i attended a major ne flower show in march and a maple festival a few weeks later. in both instances the canadian bee keepers selling their products at the flower show and the festival told me that they have not seen their hives decimated like we have here in the us. in fact, they are thriving up there. the whole thing smells suspiciouly like gm crop plantings here in the us. i would also interject that we aren't seeing them die as much as we are seeing them not repopulate/lay eggs/grow larvae. this could explain why we don't find dead carcasses around en mass. time to support organic more don't you think?

i would also like to note that the maple sugar industry in the us is also failing (supposedly due to global warming with temperatures not dipping low enough for long enough for the trees to produce lots of sweet sap). i remember reading an article a few weeks ago in the ny times that stated that the us used to be the #1 producer of maple sugars/syrups but now production in canada surpasses that of the us (which has declined very drastically).

also i wonder if there isn't indeed some astrological connection between the hexagonal pattern on saturn showing up in recent weeks, the bee (which makes honeycomb in a hexagonal pattern), and the maple trees (note that the maple leaf has a 3-lobed leaf and shape of 1/2 a hexagon).

food for thought.

charran