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Here is a quote and a link http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_5194.cfm

Sharon Labchuk is a longtime environmental activist and part-time organic beekeeper from Prince Edward Island. She has twice run for a seat in Ottawa’s House of Commons, making strong showings around 5% for Canada’s fledgling Green Party. She is also leader of the provincial wing of her party. In a widely circulated email, she wrote:

“I’m on an organic beekeeping list of about 1,000 people, mostly Americans, and no one in the organic beekeeping world, including commercial beekeepers, is reporting colony collapse on this list. The problem with the big commercial guys is that they put pesticides in their hives to fumigate for varroa mites, and they feed antibiotics to the bees. They also haul the hives by truck all over the place to make more money with pollination services, which stresses the colonies.”

Anybody followign the missing hoenybee crisis?

Hasanythign like this happened before, dead and missing bees? What’s your take on this?
I am thinking disease or parasites, in relation to climate change problems.

Later in the video, Ken talks about the Bees as created creatures by God. God’s accuracy may be observed in the hatching of eggs. For example: The eggs of the potato bug hatch in 7 days. The eggs of the canary in 14 days. The eggs of the barnyard hen in 21 days. The eggs of ducks and geese hatch in 28 days; The eggs of the mallard in 35 days. The eggs of the parrot and the ostrich hatch in 42 days. (Notice, they are all divisible by Seven). Wonder why your life is a mess? The lives of each …

Did You Know? The honey bee has been around for 30 million years. It is the only insect that produces food eaten by man. Honeybee’s wings stroke 11400 times per minute, thus making their distinctive buzz.It takes about 556 workers to gather 1 pound of honey from about 2 million flowers. A honey bee visits 50 to 100 flowers during a collection trip.A colony of bees consists of 20000-60000 honeybees and one queen.Worker honey bees are female, live 6 to 8 weeks and do all the work.The queen bee …

BE VEG. GO GREEN. SAVE THE PLANET.