Pesticides, microwaves responsible for decline in bee population?

[mark at tlio.org.uk]

AUDIO: Lots more here too about the effect of the microwave mast & mobile networks on bee navigation as compiled by WiredChild campaign and Mast Sanity in London
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/37550

On Monday 15 October 2012 at 20.30, an excellent article by George 
Monbiot entitled "If extreme weather becomes the norm, starvation 
awaits" about food security in the face of climate change was 
published on the Guardian website.

Ref: 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/15/extreme-weather-starvation-food-production


In it, there was in what was a side-issue to the issue of 
climate-change, a paragraph which referred to scientific research 
which exposes how one set of chemicals has been blamed for decline of 
bees - namely a group of compounds called Neonicotinoids
(eg: Aqueous neonicotinoid compositions for seed treatment; United 
States  Patent 7307043):
http://www.operationpollinator.com/golf/

The company Syngenta own the patent to pesticides containing these 
neonicotinoid compositions.


The research referred to in the paragraph was by New Scientist. It is 
likely this research in the following url: 
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21428596.000-pesticides-cause-bees-to-lose-their-bearings.html

This paragraph is now mysteriously missing from the article. On the 
website at the quoted url for the article, it is written that "This 
article was amended on 16 October to say that the jet stream travels 
eastwards, rather than westwards".  It appears this was not the only 
information removed from this article on the 16th October.

Mark




From: 	Ram Selva <seeds at snail.org.uk>
Sender: 	TheLandIsOurs at yahoogroups.com
Subject: 	[TheLandIsOurs] Bees, pollution and PR
Date: 	Sat, 31 Mar 2012 03:41:54 +0100
To: 	TLIO group <TheLandIsOurs at yahoogroups.com>
	
  

Hi,

Are there anyone with experience on how Plan Bee has progressed on 
over
the years?

Co-op's Plan Bee:

<http://vanishingbees.co.uk/plan_bee/index.html>

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also worth noting at a time Syngenta's GM crops are sneaking in under 
a
deceitful banner of 'enhancing biodiversity' :

Current state of 'Operation Pollinator' by the majority patent holder
of one set of chemicals blamed for decline of bees, Neonicotinoids 
(eg:
Aqueous neonicotinoid compositions for seed treatment; United States
Patent 7307043):

<http://www.operationpollinator.com/golf/> !!

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Earlier Syngenta funded BBSRC research in to all sorts of stuff to do
with bees; see how the tunes have changed w.r.t this archived PR

<http://web.archive.org/web/20091005030433/http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/media/releases/2009/091001_1million_award_honeybee_decline.html>

Ram