I’m not sure about Norway, but I know a very competent and friendly beekeeper in Denmark. He can provide a choice of many different kinds of flowers to suit your personal taste.
The CCD or Colony Collapse Disorder centered mainly on the so called “industrial” bees trucked around and usde on large commercial crops. It is certainly a combination of factors involved. Chief among them is an infection of microsporidia plays a significant role world wide. We also have bats, birds other insects to help out. Though the honeybee is a naturalized (alien) European species imported 400 years ago.
Honeybee colony collapse is a sanitary and ecological worldwide problem. The features of this syndrome are an unexplained disappearance of adult bees, a lack of brood attention, reduced colony strength, and heavy winter mortality without any previous evident pathological disturbances. To date there has not been a consensus about its origins. This report describes the clinical features of two professional bee‐keepers affecting by this syndrome. Anamnesis, clinical examination and analyses support that the depopulation in both cases was due to the infection by Nosema ceranae (Microsporidia), an emerging pathogen of Apis mellifera. No other significant pathogens or pesticides (neonicotinoids) were detected and the bees had not been foraging in corn or sunflower crops. The treatment with fumagillin avoided the loss of surviving weak colonies. This is the first case report of honeybee colony collapse due to N. ceranae in professional apiaries in field conditions reported worldwide.
Strange but True: A large part of the problem is our Love for Almonds.
California Almond farms ship Bees to their farms from as far away as Maine & Florida. All that time on trucks & trains is Not good for the Bees, so a lot of them Die.
One of the theories about Colony Collapse is that we may have introduced something into the environment that ruins the Bee’s ability to Navigate their way back to the home hive.
Scientists are testing everything from perfume and various drug trace aromas to Cell Phone signals since no one is 100% sure how bees Do find the Home Hive.
erik.vanthienen over 5 years ago
Where’ll they go? The same direction as one third of the human food supply.
gammaguy over 5 years ago
I’m not sure about Norway, but I know a very competent and friendly beekeeper in Denmark. He can provide a choice of many different kinds of flowers to suit your personal taste.
Qiset over 5 years ago
What pollinated things in the Americas prior to 1622?
bryan42 over 5 years ago
For some reason I doubt they are considering Santa Rosa, New Mexico. Not much there for a busy pollinator to do.
Stephen Gilberg over 5 years ago
I wondered whether the punchline would involve the bees turning invisible.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
The CCD or Colony Collapse Disorder centered mainly on the so called “industrial” bees trucked around and usde on large commercial crops. It is certainly a combination of factors involved. Chief among them is an infection of microsporidia plays a significant role world wide. We also have bats, birds other insects to help out. Though the honeybee is a naturalized (alien) European species imported 400 years ago.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Colony+Collapse+Syndrome&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1758-2229.2009.00014.x
Summary
Honeybee colony collapse is a sanitary and ecological worldwide problem. The features of this syndrome are an unexplained disappearance of adult bees, a lack of brood attention, reduced colony strength, and heavy winter mortality without any previous evident pathological disturbances. To date there has not been a consensus about its origins. This report describes the clinical features of two professional bee‐keepers affecting by this syndrome. Anamnesis, clinical examination and analyses support that the depopulation in both cases was due to the infection by Nosema ceranae (Microsporidia), an emerging pathogen of Apis mellifera. No other significant pathogens or pesticides (neonicotinoids) were detected and the bees had not been foraging in corn or sunflower crops. The treatment with fumagillin avoided the loss of surviving weak colonies. This is the first case report of honeybee colony collapse due to N. ceranae in professional apiaries in field conditions reported worldwide.
craigwestlake over 5 years ago
The bees could go to Denmark, but then Hamlet would get upset…
bakana over 5 years ago
Strange but True: A large part of the problem is our Love for Almonds.
California Almond farms ship Bees to their farms from as far away as Maine & Florida. All that time on trucks & trains is Not good for the Bees, so a lot of them Die.
Sisyphos over 5 years ago
Come back, bees! We love you! We need pollination! We like honey! Don’t go away! Sniff….
BigDaveGlass over 5 years ago
How about to the land of milk and honey?
poopsypoo Premium Member over 5 years ago
The Delta! Or maybe Tupelo!!! That’s where great bees live!!!
bakana over 5 years ago
One of the theories about Colony Collapse is that we may have introduced something into the environment that ruins the Bee’s ability to Navigate their way back to the home hive.
Scientists are testing everything from perfume and various drug trace aromas to Cell Phone signals since no one is 100% sure how bees Do find the Home Hive.