Comments on: Video: Full Episode

By: brian

brian — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:09:00 +0000

Bee colonies weaken due to regular application of miticides, the foraging they do in pesticide laden fields, and the fact that they are being fed unhealthy sweetened corn syrup/sugar water in place of their own healthy honey (which is taken away from them). Bee pollen is also taken from their legs. The food bees make and stock in hives is helpful in mite prevention. The pollen and nectar collected by bees contains important nutrients that keep the bees healthy. Stealing that from them and giving them fake substitutes will make them susceptible to many diseases and predators. Bees desire their deaths to cause no problem for the rest of the hive, so they fly away before dying. That is where they are going.

By: Bill Hewett

Bill Hewett — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:12:38 +0000

I am a sideliner beekeeper and I do my best to inform people of the importance of honeybees. However, there is little attention being paid to the problem of bees disappearing. I have searched everywhere that I can think of and there is no ear that will listen. If one is a cattle farmer or cotton farmer or corn or soybeans there are billions of dollars for these farmers but ask about insurance to cover lost bees or free dollars to help a person replace or get started in beekeeping and the representive of USDA will only give one a dirty look. America better wake up and understand that without the honey bee we will not have food.China and Walmart can’t solve this problem.

By: Save Honey Bees Organization -- October 12th, 2009 at 1:41 pm

Save Honey Bees Organization -- October 12th, 2009 at 1:41 pm — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:21:07 +0000

In the winter of 2006, a strange phenomenon fell upon honeybee hives across the country. Without a trace, millions of bees vanished from their hives, leaving billions of dollars of crops at risk and potentially threatening our food supply. The epidemic set researchers scrambling to discover why honeybees were dying in record numbers — and to stop the epidemic in its tracks before it spread further

By: Save Honey Bees Organization

Save Honey Bees Organization — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:41:27 +0000

A basic message this and other great PBS shows gets across is that our personal actions can have huge results for good or bad. It is up to each of us to decide what we can do to make the world a better place. http://www.savehoneybees.org

By: The Honeybee Conservancy

The Honeybee Conservancy — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:10:40 +0000

Thank you for this fantastic video, which raises awareness of this huge environmental and economic issue. There is a lot we can do as individuals as well as on a larger (scientific, political) scale!
Thanks,
The Honeybee Conservancy
http://www.TheHoneybeeConservancy.org

By: The Honeybee Conservancy

The Honeybee Conservancy — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:10:19 +0000

By: Gary G. Schempp

Gary G. Schempp — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:49:15 +0000

A Great Presentation. As an avid Beekeeper and Gardener/Farmer I am very concerned about CCD. My site on beekeeping is here —> http://public.fotki.com/GaryGS1/family-farm/beekeeping-1/ Feel Free to have a look. Comments Welcome.
GaryGS1 in Nj=USA

By: James K. Kostya

James K. Kostya — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:16:03 +0000

Bees are taking off huh? Do you blame them. As we are dependant on their pollenation properties (a byproduct of their necter and pollen collecting) so are they on our good judgement and stewertship. It is obvious from the reported facts that we are failing them while they have not failed us. They are allowed the luxury of suing man in a court of law for breach of contract, unspoken and unwritten it may be. We have wrongly been harvesting their resources which they expend great and costly energy into and in turn selling it at a unreasonablly low rate that can’t sustain it’s source. I for one bought two bee hives which I keep honey bees in. Keeping them up and providing for the bees is another cost of having food availible to me. It would be stupid to raise bees with an unrealistic shortsighted plan of profiting from their hard work without getting an ample return enough to provide any needed payment for supplies to care for their health, replacing the honey harvested with another food supply (simple syrup) to supplament a partial honey harvest. That’s right you idiot beekeepers, you shouldn’t take all their honey reserves!! ( I by the way leave all honey and pollen to the bee’s simply because I’m a better stewert and more informed beekeeper.) They in turn pollenate my crops and if in their best interests pollenate the crops of my customers who are paying more and more dearly for their services. In turn I take that money and buy medical products to make their life better along with costs required to evolve my care of them which includes heating and cooling their hives, designing and building robber bee safe features and providing them any additional food sources. I hope my compition loses more bees if indeed they are being mistreated by them. Mine are happy and staying put on their own free will. As a matter of fact I will soon have to expand.

By: collette brooks-Hops

collette brooks-Hops — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:16:43 +0000

an amazing production1 Do not remove from this site. Advertise it everywhere. . .Thankyou for such a wonderful explanation regarding the importance of the honeybee!

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:35:44 +0000

one response above thinks that the loss of bees is awesome. That is very ignorant. This person is not aware that bees are the primary pollinators. If plants are not being pollinated, then we are in big trouble. We have been using too many pesticides in this country. Even butterflies, who are secondary pollinators, are disappearing. Each of us needs to do our part to bring back these insects.