http://agro.biodiver.se/2007/02/bees-in-trouble/ Crops, animals, wild relatives ... Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:33:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://agro.biodiver.se/2007/02/bees-in-trouble/comment-page-1/#comment-9272 More on bee declines at Resilience Science Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:53:44 +0000 http://agro.biodiver.se/2007/02/bees-in-trouble/#comment-9272 [...] … We pointed to a piece that said maybe the problems in the US weren’t any worse than they had been, just better reported. Maybe the problem is monoculture? Throughout the recent buzz of hive-related news, though, we’ve ignored a few items that laid the blame on GMO crops. Why? Because they seemed a bit shrill, maybe even a tad one-sided. But a long and apparently comprehensive piece in the German news magazine Der Spiegel is neither shrill nor one-sided. And it seems to adduce good evidence that bees who are suffering a parasite infestation are abnormally susceptible to pollen from maize engineered to express the Bt bacterial toxin from Bacillus thuringiensis. [...] [...] … We pointed to a piece that said maybe the problems in the US weren’t any worse than they had been, just better reported. Maybe the problem is monoculture? Throughout the recent buzz of hive-related news, though, we’ve ignored a few items that laid the blame on GMO crops. Why? Because they seemed a bit shrill, maybe even a tad one-sided. But a long and apparently comprehensive piece in the German news magazine Der Spiegel is neither shrill nor one-sided. And it seems to adduce good evidence that bees who are suffering a parasite infestation are abnormally susceptible to pollen from maize engineered to express the Bt bacterial toxin from Bacillus thuringiensis. [...]

]]> http://agro.biodiver.se/2007/02/bees-in-trouble/comment-page-1/#comment-2453 Bee problems caused by monoculture? at Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:43:06 +0000 http://agro.biodiver.se/2007/02/bees-in-trouble/#comment-2453 [...] The New York Times picked up the Bees in Peril story and amplified it considerably. More interesting still, over at Resilience Science Garry Peterson points out that maybe the decline in pollinators is linked to the fact that introduced European bees have displaced natural populations to such an extent, and that the bees are now more genetically uniform. sounds like he could be right. [...] [...] The New York Times picked up the Bees in Peril story and amplified it considerably. More interesting still, over at Resilience Science Garry Peterson points out that maybe the decline in pollinators is linked to the fact that introduced European bees have displaced natural populations to such an extent, and that the bees are now more genetically uniform. sounds like he could be right. [...]

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