{"id":518,"date":"2008-02-18T12:38:38","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T17:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=518"},"modified":"2008-03-09T19:30:05","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T00:30:05","slug":"honey-bees-disappearing-by-the-billions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"Honeybees Disappearing by the Billions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celsias.com\/2007\/03\/15\/bee-colony-collapse-disorder-where-is-it-heading\/\" target=\"_blank\">Celsias.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The phenomenon is recent, dating back to autumn, when beekeepers along the east coast of the US started to notice the die-offs. It was given the name of fall dwindle disease, but now it has been renamed to reflect better its dramatic nature, and is known as colony collapse disorder.<\/p>\n<p>It is swift in its effect. Over the course of a week the majority of the bees in an affected colony will flee the hive and disappear, going off to die elsewhere. The few remaining insects are then found to be enormously diseased &#8211; they have a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153tremendous pathogen load\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, the scientists say. But why? No one yet knows.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the few bees left inside the hive were carrying \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a tremendous number of pathogens\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8211; virtually every known bee virus could be detected in the insects, she said, and some bees were carrying five or six viruses at a time, as well as fungal infections. Because of this it was assumed that the bees\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 immune systems were being suppressed in some way.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It may be that the honeybee has become the victim of these insecticides that are meant for other pests,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t figure this out real quick, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to wipe out our food supply.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Just a few miles down the sunlit road, it is easy to find farmers prepared to agree with his gloomy assessment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.celsias.com\/2007\/03\/15\/bee-colony-collapse-disorder-where-is-it-heading\/\" target=\"_blank\">Whole Article <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Celsias.com The phenomenon is recent, dating back to autumn, when beekeepers along the east coast of the US started to notice the die-offs. It was given the name of fall dwindle disease, but now it has been renamed to reflect better its dramatic nature, and is known as colony collapse disorder. It is swift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}