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A multitude of dead bees

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by: bohendrix Active Indicator LED Icon  OP  New Member
~ 9 years ago   Oct 23, '14 7:44pm  
I came home from work today and found thousands of dead bees on my front sidewalk.  Has anyone else seen something like this before?   I can't find any bees nests around. 4951
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cgm10sne1 Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 9 years ago   Oct 23, '14 7:49pm  
I have seen a few here an there...but not in the thousands. That is really weird. We're the Honey bees? Or the big fat bumbles. We need the bees! Emoticon 4951
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bohendrix Active Indicator LED Icon  OP  New Member
~ 9 years ago   Oct 23, '14 7:53pm  
They were small to medium sized honey bees.   Very weird. 4951
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noel Active Indicator LED Icon 1
~ 9 years ago   Oct 23, '14 7:57pm  
That is very strange, and sad. Honey bees are on the decline. Maybe a neighbor sprayed them? 4951
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alecktra Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 9 years ago   Oct 23, '14 8:03pm  
Quite the mystery & very sad since bees do so much good for mother nature... 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Oct 23, '14 8:24pm  
I came home from work today and found thousands of dead bees on my front sidewalk.  Has anyone else seen something like this before?   I can't find any bees nests around.
 
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I have actually been looking into keeping a few hives for honey since local honey is so hard to find. In my research I found the following article. Turns out your find is not rare at all.
 
Colony collapse disorder (CCD) is a phenomenon in which worker bees from a European honey bee colony abruptly disappear. While such disappearances have occurred throughout the history of apiculture, and were known by various names (disappearing disease, spring dwindle, May disease, autumn collapse, and fall dwindle disease),[1] the syndrome was renamed colony collapse disorder in late 2006[2] in conjunction with a drastic rise in the number of disappearances of western honeybee colonies in North America.[3] European beekeepers observed similar phenomena in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain,[4] and initial reports have also come in from Switzerland and Germany, albeit to a lesser degree[5] while the Northern Ireland Assembly received reports of a decline greater than 50%.[6]
 
Colony collapse disorder is significant economically because many agricultural crops worldwide are pollinated by European honey bees. According to the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the worth of global crops with honeybee�s pollination was estimated to be close to $200 billion in 2005.[7] Shortages of bees in the US have increased the cost to farmers renting them for pollination services by up to 20%.[8]
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14valentine Active Indicator LED Icon 1
~ 9 years ago   Oct 23, '14 8:28pm  
Sounds like bad ju-ju! Better watch your back- yikes! 4951
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squirtismyboy Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 9 years ago   Oct 23, '14 8:33pm  
Insecticides also cause colonies to collapse. 4951
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Odin Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 9 years ago   Oct 23, '14 8:38pm  
Freaky!But would make a great name for a band. 4951
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cgm10sne1 Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 9 years ago   Oct 23, '14 8:46pm  
I bet all the spraying for the mosquitos around here could have caused this too. It's so very scary since bees are vital to life. If the Honey Bees disappear the human race wont be far behind.  4951
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~ 9 years ago   Oct 24, '14 12:58am  
@bohendrixI know you took pix right?  4951
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gringaloca Active Indicator LED Icon  New Member
~ 9 years ago   Oct 24, '14 1:03am  
I noticed that the city came by spraying again last night. Maybe you were included and the spray is killing the bees along with everything else. Sad. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Oct 24, '14 6:58am  
I noticed that the city came by spraying again last night. Maybe you were included and the spray is killing the bees along with everything else. Sad.
 
@gringaloca: The city spraying shouldn't have anything to do with it, as they spray at ground level.  Bees usually colonize high up, or in the siding of people's homes.  Mosquitoes are mostly in the grass, or their eggs are in storm drains, which is why the city sprays down low.
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~ 9 years ago   Oct 24, '14 7:25am  
Maybe they're playing dead. 4951
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FoFa Active Indicator LED Icon 17
~ 9 years ago   Oct 24, '14 7:39am  
Were they fresh and moist, or old dried up hulks?If they were dried up, could be a hive that dies out, and a new swarm wants to take over and removed the old bodies.If they are moist and relativity fresh, I would suspect a neighbor is into voo doo and cursing your property.
 
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Leentje Active Indicator LED Icon
~ 9 years ago   Oct 24, '14 8:32am  
It's a huge problem in the usa with pesticides killing bees and lots of petitions waiting to be signed to stop the chemical usage....I wonder about the mosquito spraying they spray into the air not in storm drains or where really needed ...all those chemicals how good are they??? Used to see Luna moths, praying mantis, orb spiders,monarch butterflies, fire flies and lots of bees etc ...in the garden ....now see hardly any! Anyone else notice the lack of them in their gardens?? 4951
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