What's bad for the humans, is bad for the bees

Filed in archive Go Green by Miche on June 17, 2007

Obviously scientists have been looking into what has been killing the bees for quite some time. So what have they come up with?

Maybe it's the Pesticides.

Captain Obvious to the rescue. Gosh, I don't know what we would have done without all you nice scientists. Granted, okay maybe I'm being a bit harsh on them - I mean they still haven't figured out how a cat purrs. It's a bit difficult to see how a clock ticks after it has died, after all.

Beekeepers are a bit more convinced

While scientists are going to try and back up their buddies in pesticide, the beekeepers are doing all they can to keep their hives from pollinating fields sprayed with pesticides. Some keepers have lost up to 75% of their bees, so it's obvious they will take any solution that presents itself, as soon as it presents itself.

The one thing that gets me though - if that particular pesticide has been used since 1994, why now? They could have changed their formula, and who would've known? Or farmers could be using it improperly, as the company ever so cutely claims.

Or maybe it takes 13 years for pesticides to kill bees. Hmm. I wonder how long it takes for pesticides to kill humans?

Related Entries:

The Birds and the Bees - 26 April 2006
Bee Stings Can Be Deadly! - 11 May 2006
Collecting Bees and Hornets for Immunotherapy Drugs - 20 July 2006
Detecting Explosives Using Honey Bees - 29 November 2006
Don't believe everything you read - 16 June 2007
Not all that glitters is gold - 16 June 2007
Mainstream media helps combat global warming - 17 June 2007
Silk from Bees - 29 November 2007

« Not all that glitters is ... | Main | Mainstream media helps co... »

Permalink: What's bad for the humans, is bad for the bees

Tags: pesticides bees green social development social+enterprise social+entrepreneurship sponsored+post

Trackback: http://publish.creative-weblogging.com/publish/mt-tb.pl/76011

Addthis

Ask

Blinklist

del.icio.us

Digg

Fark

Facebook

Google

Lycos

Ma.gnolia

Mr Wong

Netscape

Netvousz

Newsvine

StumbleUpon

Slashdot

Tailrank

Technorati

Wink

Yahoo

Vote for What's bad for the humans, is bad for the bees:

Currently 9.50/10
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Rating: 9.50 out of 2 vote(s) cast.

Add your response to What's bad for the humans, is bad for the bees:

Name: *

Email: (will never be shown)*

URL:

(* marked fields are required)

Notify me if more comments appear?

Subscribe to Audeamus - How dare we... newsletter? (Newsletters are sent out weekly).

Remember me

Security Code: *
(Please help us to sort out spam.)

Please enter your comment here: (Sorry, no HTML is allowed - URLs will be made clickable automatically if you add http:// to your URL.)

We welcome your comments, however all comments are moderated. Offensive or off-topic comments will be deleted and not displayed.

Share It

Use the search to look for other interesting posts

Contributors (Last 90 days)

Gautam Chhabra (10)
Creative Weblogging (3)

This site has 426 entries and is powered by Creative Weblogging since April 2006.

Our Editors recommend

Disclaimer

Some of the contents of this site are protected Creative Weblogging Inc. 2004-2010.

Check out our Sponsored Blogs!

Business Computer Blog (UK)

Are you interested in writing a blog in our network?

See which positions are currently open.

Testimonials

From Echoing Green: Our Top Seven Social Entrepreneurship Blogs
Audeamus
www.audeamus.com
A one stop shop for everything about social responsibility and entrepreneurship, Audeamus has it all. The posts are split up between categories like Books and Tools, Go Green, and Social Enterprise, which makes it very easy to find exactly what you want.