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Re: Honeybees Vanish, Leaving Keepers in Peril
[Re: Daryl]
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06/30/07 02:25 AM
06/30/07 02:25 AM
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Well the price of honey is about the same as it was 20 years ago. Back when diesel fuel was $1 a gallon. Workers were happy to get $4 an hour and a one ton truck could be bought for 15 grand. The demand for honey has risen but is being filled by the imports, thus a lot of bee keepers have gone out of business and the ones that have stayed in can only make it by trucking the bees 1000's of miles per year to rent out their bees for pollination. I'm guessing our semi runs about 60-80,000 miles per year. And the smaller trucks even more. All that trucking is very hard on the bees and might be a factor in the disappearing bees that have been in the news so much lately. I guess the bottom line is that the bees are being put in jeopardy by cheap imports. When the bees all die say goodbye to blueberries, apples, almonds, cucumbers etc etc. Many people look at the bee problems and see the loss of honey, but in fact the bees are so much more than honey. I'd say that Canada is having the same problems as we are here in the states.
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Re: Honeybees Vanish, Leaving Keepers in Peril
[Re: Redfog]
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10/23/09 04:31 AM
10/23/09 04:31 AM
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Formation of Hydroxymethylfurfural in ...Apis mellifera)In the United States, high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) has become a sucrose replacement for honey bees and has widespread use as a sweetener in many processed foods and beverages for human consumption. It is utilized by commercial beekeepers as a food for honey bees for several reasons: to promote brood production, after bees have been moved for commercial pollination, and when field-gathered nectar sources are scarce. Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) is a heat-formed contaminant and is the most noted toxin to honey bees. Currently, there are no rapid field tests that would alert beekeepers of dangerous levels of HMF in HFCS or honey. High-Fructose Corn Syrup Produces Toxic Chemical "HMF" When Heated What these USDA researchers discovered is that when HFCS is heated, it forms hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), a chemical that can kill honey bees. The production of HMF during cooking rose in parallel to the temperatures to which HFCS was exposed.
To put it plainly, when you cook HFCS, it becomes contaminated with HMF. And according to the research, levels of HMF "jumped dramatically" when temperatures rose above 120 degrees Fahrenheit (which isn't very hot, by the way).
This is similar to the way in which browning or frying carbohydrates produces acrylamides, a cancer-causing chemical that's also ubiquitous in the food supply.
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Re: Honeybees Vanish, Leaving Keepers in Peril
[Re: crater]
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10/23/09 03:59 PM
10/23/09 03:59 PM
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Reading the article, there is something that seems odd to me which maybe Redfrog or others could help clarify. It hypes and mystifies the disappearance. Do beekeepers come to their hive and open up the box and see or expect to see dead bees in the hive? The limited knowledge I have of them is that the bees clean out the dead bees so one would expect to find very few dead bees in the box. As in, the last one dead can't sweep the floor. To give bees energy while they are pollinating, beekeepers now feed them protein supplements and a liquid mix of sucrose and corn syrup carried in tanker-sized trucks costing $12,000 per load. In light of what crater just posted, could that be the reason? I mean, how much sense does it make to give bees that of which they are intended to do -- make sweetness? Almost seems as if it were possible, they would give them steroids and burn them out early for a profit. There was a local writer of the newspaper which this was the first year of her having bees and she described how she fed them sugar water. I questioned her if that was wise. She said "they" told her to feed them it and that's what everyone traditionally does. The bees are dead, now. Could be the problem.
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