[untostaronaf]

...so far is that this condition is happening through a number of factors, some of which are:



1) hyper breeding--far too many factory-farm-focused bees have bred in unbalanced ways, so diseases have been showing up in the last few years, culminating in the latest phenom amongst the bees--the ccd. like many other over-bred animals (dogs, farm animals, etc)the bees' genetic diversity has greatly diminished, thus adversely affecting the maintenance of the now-compromised immune systems in the colonies of the commercial, factory-farm-focused bees, as well as individual bees.


another problem with the hyper-breeding is that the commercial bees are averaging 50% larger in size/weight compared to the natural, organic bees (that are still thriving for the most part in many areas world-wide), so the bigger, heavier commercial bees cannot stay on many flowers to get the pollen. too big, too heavy. it seems that nature knew what she was doing.


2) toxin overload--the factory-farm-focused bees are dealing with an overload of too many toxins from too many areas, primarily in the factory farms, where the bees' hives are sprayed heavily to ward off the mite/virus problems (which, in turn, are caused by the decreases of the commercial bees' devitalization of the immune system of the colonies and the individual bees). organic bees are just fine in many areas.


3)gm (genetic modification)--genetic modification probably is playing a key role in the ccd. now that the vital species barrier has been crossed in numerous farm-related species, some insects (butterflies, bees) have already shown to be highly sensitive to the effects of more-dangerous, gm-modified virus/bacterial colonies to rapidly establish themselves in the bodies of the insects. the insects would likely have yet to establish effective defenses to the gm-inspired onslaught, so there can easily be large losses of insect population before the neccessary adaptational responses in terms of harmonized genetics that strengthen the future generations of the affected insects.


4) electromagnetic smog--it appears that bees are adverse to the cell-phone microwaves and other electromagnetic effects of modern-day devices, so they appear to be gravitating towards areas that have less electromagnetic smog and those areas tend to be rural areas that are away from cities/suburbs of electro-smoggy areas in the world.


5) stress--factory-farm bees are frequently trucked many miles to distant farms, so the bees are not only seriously stressed from suddenly being in wholly-new locations, the bees have the stress of the trip itself, being shipped for hundreds of miles in the trailers of the big-rig semi-trucks on the highways. it is already proven that stress reduces the immune systems in many life forms, bees included.



in summation, it appears that the organic bees world-wide are ok. this may be a blessing in the sense that commercial, corporate agriculture's karma of being so brutal to nature is about to bite the corporations in their arses, big-time with possible collapses in farm production in a number of different crops in the next few years. karma for big pharma.


big pharmas' crop woes may trigger an additional boost to the organic food movement that is already the most-rapidly-growing "movement" in the world and would be given the added resources with which to grow more food to offset the likely losses in the factory-farm sectors of our economy. there's an aspect of the natural adaptation that dw talked about in one of his blogs.


~seth