Bees~

Yes, I’m posting. Get over it. 

We’ve found a house that I love, moreso, I love the acreage. Five of them. Now, that’s not a
lot, but it’s enough right now to make some of my long held dreams come true. Like keeping bees. 

The NJ Department of Agriculture (which Corzine is trying to shut down – *insert bad name for Corzine here*) has a program where if you take their bee classes, you can get $300 worth of bee keeping supplies, but I missed this years. I was pissed, but I’ve set myself up with the e-mail alerts for next year’s classes-if there IS a next year for the department. *another nasty name for Corzine*

Anyway, if you’ve been up on the news you know that bee colonies are being devastated by CCD (colony colapse disorder) and so far they’ve been unable to find out what was causing the deaths of so many bees.*

But at last they seem to be making some headway, and can I say I’m not so surprised?

Hackenberg, 58, trucks his bees around the country for pollination — from oranges in Florida to blueberries in Maine. He was the first beekeeper to report the disorder to Penn State researchers last fall, having lost nearly 75 percent of his 3,200 colonies.

He said he is convinced pesticides, and in particular a kind of pesticide called neonicotinoids, were harming his bees.

What I don’t understand is why didn’t they go all Numb3rs on this? Map it out, pinpoint collapses, and get the pesticides that all of the farmers are using. Start cross referencing. This is serious. And when the farmers who use that crap can’t get any bees, maybe they’ll start going organic. A girl can dream…

*Fireflies and Salamanders are getting rare, too.

 

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