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"For the bee, honey is the ultimate reality. It represents the fulfillment of her life mission..."

Submitted by Pierre Terre on April 9, 2010 - 11:11

This quote was forwarded from my friend John McDonald, who is an amazing beekeeper of 45 years, and who is in the film "Nicotine Bees:"

Location

Centreville, PA
United States
40° 25' 12.6696" N, 77° 10' 4.6884" W
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Screening Wed., March 17th 7:00pm - Lansdale Public Library near Philadelphia for a Screening of the film Nicotine Bees

Submitted by Pierre Terre on March 14, 2010 - 16:27

Lansdale Public Library

[from the film-makers] Nicotine Bees gets to the truth of why honeybees of the world are in big trouble and why our food supply is in big trouble with them. We think the answers are clear and have been for several years. We filmed on three continents to find out the real reasons why bees are in catastrophic decline and why many people don’t want the reason to be told.

Location

Lansdale Public Library
301 Vine St.
Lansdale, PA
United States
40° 14' 30.0696" N, 75° 17' 14.4348" W
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Italy keeps ban on neonicotinoid seed coating to save bees

Submitted by Pierre Terre on March 3, 2010 - 14:23

YourIs.com, Italy keeps ban on neonicotinoid seed coating to save bees

The Italian Agriculture Ministry suspended the use of pesticides containing clothianidin, thiametoxam and imidacloprid for the coating of any plant seeds (May '09).

Tens of thousands of them don’t even manage to get back to their apiary. Disoriented, they lose the way home and die. Others just drop dead after sucking the tiniest amount of dew exuded by maize leaves if the plants have been absorbing neonicotinoids, a class of pesticides that Italy has temporarily banned as seed coating in September last year for their “possible connection to the colony collapse of bees”.

Germany Suspends Nicotine-based Pesticide Products

Submitted by Pierre Terre on March 3, 2010 - 12:54

Translated from the German, this document provides the reasoning behind the 2008 suspension of nicotine-based insecticides/pesticides in Germany, based on the severe honey bee losses in southwest Germany that year. Seed treatments were blamed for thoses incidents, including the losses reported in the film Nicotine Bees by German beekeepers Walter Haefeker and Karl-Rainer Koch.

Locations

Germany
48° 8' 23.3592" N, 11° 34' 46.524" E
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Germany
48° 8' 29.9544" N, 11° 33' 27.4212" E
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Germany
52° 31' 18.4512" N, 13° 24' 11.952" E
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Guttation Water Can Be Deadly to Bees: Dr. Hedwig Riebe (Germany) Presents in Paris

Submitted by Pierre Terre on March 3, 2010 - 12:39

Dr. Hedwig Riebe of the German Professional Beekeepers Association presents the important new research on the exposure routes of honey bees to nicotine insecticides - especially compelling evidence that guttation water secreted naturally by plants that bees drink, contains high concentrations of nicotine pesticides.

 

Location

Paris, J75
France
48° 51' 24.0012" N, 2° 21' 3.5532" E

Dr. Neil Carman: The Case for Neonicotinoid Insecticides as a Prime Mover in CCD

Submitted by Pierre Terre on March 3, 2010 - 12:17

Dr. Neil Carman of The Sierra Club presents compelling evidence that nicotine-based insecticides (neonicotinyls or neonicotinoids) are the prime-mover causal agent of the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) phenomenon in honebee die-offs. Presented at the the American Honey Producers Association (AHPA) 2010 meeting in Sacramento, California.

Location

Sacramento, CA
United States
38° 34' 53.6592" N, 121° 29' 39.84" W
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Causes of Bee Losses from CCD in Germany

Submitted by Pierre Terre on March 3, 2010 - 11:35

Vice-President of the European Professional Beekeepers Association (EPBA) Walter Haefeker presents compelling evidence of nicotinoid/nicotine pesticide links to huge honeybee colony losses in Germany.

Download attached PDF file for complete presentation.

Location

Montpellier Montpellier
France
43° 36' 29.4336" N, 3° 52' 46.0056" E

NaturalNews.com reviews Nicotine Bees

Submitted by Pierre Terre on February 28, 2010 - 18:34

Natural News writer Peter Finch reviewed Nicotine Bees on NaturalNews.com, in a posting of February 12th, 2010.

About the author

Peter Finch is a certified-organic grower of premium produce and herbs, that he sells at seasonal farmers markets and to restaurants, natural food stores. Peter's farm perches high in the rolling hills of Northumberland, Ontario, Canada, where the glacial till provides mineral-rich soils.

Location

Northumberland, ON
Canada
44° 10' 15.1752" N, 78° 0' 12.1752" W
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