I was just lamenting the 5 yrs it will take them to do the right thing. Their products are anything but benign, just read any of the labels. One reason I don't belong to a beekeeping club is the fact that it gets so political, I get most of my info
online or from individual beekeepers I have become friends with. Neonics are the hot topic and rightly so, however sooo few are aware of the neonic dust-off from monoculture planting of seed-coated crops. To me this is one of the primary forms of this poison, full strength and landing on all of the forage (or whats left of it) in the vicinity of the field. I don't like the orchard sprays but I dont think they are the main culprit, I think they were the most likely culprit. Its not the only reason pollinators health is declining though, even in non
seed coated crop areas the lack of bio-diversity from our fascination with creating monocultures leaves them with dearths of pollen and nectar that can be hard on the colony in its attempt to build enough stores to make it through the winter. We need to stop spraying
dandelions and mowing them so soon. Dandelions are the first abundant source of pollen in the spring for honey
bees, a good abundant protein source for the bees to use for cranking up brood production and nourish the colony after a long winter. More brood earlier in the season means the ability to bring in more pollen and nectar.
Trying to eat as much as I can and as often as I can from organic biodiverse
polyculture (in spite of the selection at the GMA supermarket). we need to vote with our shopping dollar to get rid of this bee problem, no gm soy, gm corn, gm sugarbeet, gm cotton, gm rapeseed (canola), mutant dwarf wheat, sprayed produce/grain or animal products raised on those feeds (cafo). You are what you eat, you are what you eat, eats. I use the wapf guidelines to help me. Grateful to have a grocery store that has the same
philosophy, makes it easy to fill the house with body building nutritious food that is easy on mother nature.