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Posted Fri Jul 25 2014: from
CBC:
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More than half of Ontario bees died during harsh winter http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1406247964
About 58 per cent of Ontario bees died during what was an especially long winter, while other provinces lost on average about 19 per cent of their swarm, according to the Canadian Association of Professional Apiculturists survey. That means Ontario lost bees at a rate three times that of the other provinces.
While the report fingers the weather -- this year's polar vortex -- as the main culprit for the bee deaths, acute and chronic pesticide damage or insufficient recovery from pesticide exposure last year have also been cited by hive-minders as contributing factors....
The Ontario bee group says nearly all corn seeds and about two-thirds of soy seeds sold in the province are pretreated with neonicotinoid coatings, though only a minority of the crops are at risk from pests the insecticide is meant to stop.
It did its own winter survey earlier this year and found more than a quarter of beekeepers lost 75 to 100 per cent of their
colonies.
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'Doc Michael says:
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That's a better survival rate than my peaches and cherry trees. Toughen up, Apis mellifera!
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