Bayer opening up bee centers.
http://www.bayercropscience.com/bcsweb/cropprotection.nsf/id/EN20120221?open&l=EN&ccm=500020 (http://www.bayercropscience.com/bcsweb/cropprotection.nsf/id/EN20120221?open&l=EN&ccm=500020)
What do you think?
i don't have a problem with it. the article is a little short on specifics, but if they are going to test and experiment, better on their bees than on mine!
I can see it now! After a little genetic engineering, Bees wll produce comb honey in goose eggs repleat with squid genes that flash out PURE HONEY! Thats a joke----or is it?
Looks like they are doing this on the other side of the pond. Just a PR thing most likely.
Maybe they will train bees to collect aspirin, not pollen?
The good thing is that the bees will never have to cope with those annoying headaches.
Scott
Quote from: kathyp on February 21, 2012, 07:56:19 PM
better on their bees than on mine!
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BEE HAPPY Jim 134 :)
Their Pancho is in use here. Have no idea how this chemical can tell the differance between japanese beetles, root worms ect. and a honey bee..dl
Sounds like Bayer doesn"t want to be out done by Monsanto!
I don"t trust any of them.
John
Quote from: oliver on February 22, 2012, 09:49:23 AM
Their Pancho is in use here. Have no idea how this chemical can tell the differance between japanese beetles, root worms ect. and a honey bee..dl
Neonicotinoids seem to have a much greater affect to bees than we thought. Pollen on crops treated with neonicotinoids have up to 100 ug/L (parts per billion) of the pesticide. 3 -5 ug/L is a common level of residual neonicotinoids in pollen of farm crops such as rapeseed, corn and soybeans.
Quote from: Pesticide exposure in honey beesThe finding that individual bees with undetectable levels of the target pesticide, after being reared in a sub-lethal pesticide environment within the colony, had higher Nosema is significant. Interactions between pesticides and pathogens could be a major contributor to increased mortality of honey bee colonies, including colony collapse disorder, and other pollinator declines worldwide.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/p1027164r403288u/fulltext.html