No honey bees around here for years and the other bees have taken over for them. Nothing has been suffering for the loss here. I can speak about half a dozen counties in this area. Just no honey bees at all for years now.
Here too. We have a lot of bumble bees, carpenter bees, sweat bees, microbees of types I have not identified, and very rarely a honeybee. Pollinating moths and butterflies help too. I do miss the honeybees buzzing around the clover, though.
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Here too. We have a lot of bumble bees, carpenter bees, sweat bees, microbees of types I have not identified, and very rarely a honeybee. Pollinating moths and butterflies help too. I do miss the honeybees buzzing around the clover, though.
Seems the bumble bees are filling the void of honey bees. I have so many of the little wood boring critters they're almost becoming a nuisance. I have a small deck for the stair landing on the front of my condo. This was made of untreated lumber, and these flying sumo wrestlers of the insect world have made it home. But they don’t bother me, I just shoo them away when I’m out. I do miss the honey bees taking care of the clover and dandelions in the yard.
ran across this today ,not sure how it impatcs , but...for whatever its worth':
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Comments I would like to suggest to you that the culprit behind the sudden death of bees is excessive levels of formaldehyde gas. Humidity and heat increase both the release and the toxicity of the gas. This profile of formaldehyde gas would logically account for the fact the syndrome began in hot and humid Florida, and it has not yet occurred in the cool and much less humid state of Maine. Formaldehyde levels peak in the Northeast of this country in the spring through early summer, when bees are their busiest. Formaldehyde gas is heavier than air and may be hanging out in the path of the bees' flight. This very toxic gas produces an immediate immune reaction in insects, and could produce an AIDS-like susceptibility to fungus, parasites and disease; however, given the death is sudden, not slow, acidosis of the bee’s blood should be looked at as the most likely cause of death; it is not possible for thousands of bees to fly out of their hives and all die on the same day from disease, fungus or parasites; it is ludicrious to even suggest this; the bees are being gased
Formaldehyde gas has been increasing dramatically in our atmosphere, especially since 2003. The gas is as much a byproduct of gasoline emissions as carbon dioxide; it also has an industrial source, and for the last 60 years, offshore deep drilling for oil and gas, utilizing fresh water to aid recovery, has produced massive, methane gas hydrates, whose dislike of salt forces them to disassociate, “salt out,” as the fossil fuel industry calls the explosion of methane hydrates. Methane gas, whether released in the ocean or the air, oxidizes into formaldehyde.
Formaldehyde until recently was thought to dissipate rapidly in the atmosphere (disappear), but recently, climate scientists in Greenland and Antarctica, discovered that formaldehyde is the Dracula of the daylight hours; it hides in snow and frost at night and then releases itself to the atmosphere; it has a companion gas in the snow-hydrogen peroxide, a gas occurring minimally in nature, but a gas that can be created by electrostatic reactions, such as wind through dust and pollution. These gases probably do the same nightly hibernation in our streams, rivers, lakes, oceans and bays; to the best of my knowledge, no scientist has gone out at midnight to collect water to test for higher levels of formaldehyde and peroxide than appear in daylight hours.
Carbon Dioxide may be center stage at the moment, but formaldehyde and hydrogen peroxide could prove to be the real mass extinction gasses. Formaldehyde in sufficient quantities can cause acidosis of human blood also. The formaldehyde Dracula will take out all life that has blood and his snow bride, hydrogen peroxide will take out all the rest.
Had cats and dogs my whole life. Never heard of this. Last thurs/friday our 6yr old tabby "butter ball" got lethargic. Saturday/Sunday he quit eating/drinking, and stayed under our dresser. So took'm in monday. Turns out he had a colon blockage and high fever. Vet gave him a shot of antibiotic and a relaxer. Couple hours later, had to knock him out and remove 3 poop "rocks" the size of a silver dollar. Not completely round, but hard as a rock. No hair(they get hair ball lax bi-weekly). Vet says we feed him 1 of the 2 best cat foods produced(Natural Choice), and had only seen 1 other case like Butters. Abnormal colon enlargement. Not sure what causes it. So...$147 later, we get to give him 2 meds twice a day.
this cat has the life
