Honeybee colonies are disappearing at frightening rates. Sadly, and unfortunately honey bee populations are declining throughout the world at alarming rates. On the other side of the spectrum why are the wasps also declining?
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One of my hives is four years old and still buzzing! Not the norm, lots of environmental reasons why!
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Locally, bee keepers rent their hives to wild blueberry growers. All of whom use glyphosate based herbicides. The bee population nose dived over the last decade or two. The bee keepers blame it on Colony Collapse Disorder because government scientists said so.
From wikedpedia:
âColony collapse disorder (CCD) is a poorly understood phenomenon in which worker bees from a beehive or western honey bee colony abruptly disappear. CCD was originally discovered in Florida by David Hackenberg in western honey bee colonies in late 2006.â
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Yes!
The new pesticides are wickedly too effective.
Couple that with the electromagnetic %G tech and you have sensitive
biological systmsâ collapse.
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i donât have hives. but i have flowers.
but my anecdotal evidence is, âthey arenâtâ as well.
how does one determine if bees are facing real issues?
they told us this airplane crash stuff is unprecedented! until the stats showed it was WELL within historical norms and for whatever reason the event were being hyper pushed on us
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@Stinkhorn
Being âhyper pushedâ could mean new or changes to exitisting regulations/laws are being contemplated to exert more control over the masses. In this case itâs control over food supply. âTrust the scienceâ is but one method of control. If your local bee population is healthy, Iâm happy for you. Where I live it is most assuredly not. Honey bee importation is highly regulated here where I live. It didnât take long for the Department of Agricultural to change the regulations to allow for the entry of innoculated bees to replace the naturally existing population. One small step backwards for honey bees and our food supply and one giant leap forward for mankind?
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A fairly recent nationwide survey of beekeepers across America has revealed a catastrophic loss of honeybee colonies. Commercial operators have reported an average loss of about 60% or more between June 2024 and February 2025. This recent report is well beyond any normal decline of honeybee populations. One thing my neighbors will do this year is to cut back on any pesticide use on our properties. One other item to follow is the wasp populations. Wasps are also important for the control of spiders, and that is also a very âtellingâ issue.
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This is an important issue that we should follow. Please keep this topic alive and well. One thing I want to do this spring is to monitor any and all honeybee activity as well as our wasp population. We certainly want to keep wasps away from our porches and doorways but they can be very helpful in keeping other pests under control, aka spiders. The one thing they cannot and will not do is to eradicate stinking bugs. If anyone knows of some good ways to keep them under control it would be appreciated.
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I would love if someone did studies on the proliferation of mobile phone and wifi signals and relation (if any) to colony collapse and bee health. This canât be good for the more sensitive animals amongst us, let alone humans.
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Bingo 
Humans will not give up RF and microwave technology . can we shield the hives and the flower fields ?
My idea is that pesticides and herbicides have had far more effect on the decline of honeybees. My property has a lot of Dutch Clover, and several years ago I also planted a fairly large area with Crimson Clover. We had large numbers of honeybees in those years. We are also close to a 5G tower, so I am not fully convinced all of the above are the sole causes. One thing we experienced was frigid temperatures during the winter months. We had a -27-degree F winter event several years ago and that is when I noticed the start of the decline in their populations. Now one other aspect to investigate would be the people who raise honeybees and truck the hives to fruit orchards in order to have them help pollinate their flowers.
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A number of deaths occurring in the USSA are due to deadly drug coctails.
The drugs by themselves are somewhat OK, but when combined together?
Deadly.
So perhaps, bee colonies are responding to deadly cocktails?
5G combined with certain pesticide chemicals.
As in humans; there are a number of deadly cocktails.
A journalist, whose wife died due to such a deadly cocktail;
investigeted the phenomena & wrote a book. But, the press?
Well, what good is the mainstream press?
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