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voyageur:
Back in early July, noted the following from Grand Prairie Alberta.


--- Quote ---Millions of bees stolen from Alberta honey producer
--- End quote ---

_http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2012/07/05/edmonton-bee-theft.html#socialcomments

This was at the same time roughly that SotT featured an article (Mercola):


--- Quote ---Is Monsanto Behind Stealing Local Hero's Bee Hives? 15 Years of Research Destroyed
--- End quote ---

_http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/07/05/monsanto-roundup-effects-on-honeybees.aspx?e_cid=20120705_DNL_artNew_1

Then the other day (Jul 30) noted this, again, about bees being stolen:


--- Quote ---Hives containing 500,000 bees stolen in B.C.
--- End quote ---

_http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/07/30/bc-hives-stolen.html

Seems to be a trend going on and perhaps if these things are noticed in your part of the world, you can log them here to keep track of.

Thanks.

loreta:
I don't know if bees are stolen here but let me tell you that this summer, and I live in the country, I did not see a bee, yet. Wasps yes, but not bees. So where are they! I love bees, they are so cute. But no bees... Very sad.

voyageur:
Darn important creatures, strange you've seen none - very sad indeed. :(

loreta:

--- Quote from: voyageur on August 04, 2012, 10:42:29 AM ---Darn important creatures, strange you've seen none - very sad indeed. :(

--- End quote ---

The problem also is that we did not have Spring... From Winter we fall directly, almost, to Summer. Maybe that can be the reason?

I remember a very sad song by Francis Cabrel that said something like that: I remember when I had honey on the table... and bees turning around... I never taught listening this song, many years ago, that one day I will be sad for the same reason.

JayMark:
Bees are dissapearing at an alarming rate. We are talking about a massive extinction here. Billions of colonies.

Here in Québec, the blueberry cultivators in the Saguenay area have to actually import 53 footers of hives to pollinate their fields.

Now just try to immagine how delicate and hard it is to to that. It is what we could call real desperation.

So maybe that indeed some poeple are really that deseperate. Stealing bees to perhaps pollinate their own fields or produce honey. I can't see no other reasons.

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