The decline of bees around the world is becoming a serious silent pandemic with only occasional press on the issue. No bees, no food.
Populations have already shrinking year-over-year with no end in sight; with a handful few major outlets making mention of it, but never providing any long-term solutions to reverse this trend.
Earlier this spring The WinePress reported how millions of imported bees will scorched on a tarmac waiting to be offloaded – which exacerbates the food and agriculture shortage and dilemma.
But now it is being reported that honey bees are not dying significantly sooner compared to 50 years ago.
The following evidence is from an University of Maryland press release:
A new study by University of Maryland entomologists shows that the lifespan for individual honey bees kept in a controlled, laboratory environment is 50% shorter than it was in the 1970s. When scientists modeled the effect of today’s shorter lifespans, the results corresponded with the increased colony loss and reduced honey production trends seen by U.S. beekeepers in recent decades.
Colony turnover is an accepted factor in the beekeeping business, as bee colonies naturally age and die off. But over the past decade, U.S. beekeepers have reported high loss rates, which has meant having to replace more colonies to keep operations viable. In an effort to understand why, researchers have focused on environmental stressors, diseases, parasites, pesticide exposure and nutrition.
This is the first study to show an overall decline in honey bee lifespan potentially independent of environmental stressors, hinting that genetics may be influencing the broader trends seen in the beekeeping industry. The study was published November 14, 2022, in the journal Scientific Reports.
We’re isolating bees from the colony life just before they emerge as adults, so whatever is reducing their lifespan is happening before that point.
This introduces the idea of a genetic component. If this hypothesis is right, it also points to a possible solution. If we can isolate some genetic factors, then maybe we can breed for longer-lived honey bees.
Anthony Nearman, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Entomology and lead author of the study, said
Nearman first noticed the decline in lifespan while conducting a study with entomology associate professor Dennis van Engelsdorp on standardized protocols for rearing adult bees in the laboratory. Replicating earlier studies, the researchers collected bee pupae from honey bee hives when the pupae were within 24 hours of emerging from the wax cells they are reared in. The collected bees finished growing in an incubator and were then kept as adults in special cages.
Nearman was evaluating the effect of supplementing the caged bees’ sugar water diet with plain water to better mimic natural conditions when he noticed that, regardless of diet, the median lifespan of his caged bees was half that of caged bees in similar experiments in the 1970s. (17.7 days today versus 34.3 days in the 1970s.) This prompted a deeper review of published laboratory studies over the past 50 years.
When I plotted the lifespans over time, I realized, wow, there’s actually this huge time effect going on. Standardized protocols for rearing honey bees in the lab weren’t really formalized until the 2000s, so you would think that lifespans would be longer or unchanged, because we’re getting better at this, right? Instead, we saw a doubling of mortality rate.
Nearman said.
Although a laboratory environment is very different from a colony, historical records of lab-kept bees suggest a similar lifespan to colony bees, and scientists generally assume that isolated factors that reduce lifespan in one environment will also reduce it in another. Previous studies had also shown that in the real world, shorter honey bee lifespans corresponded to less foraging time and lower honey production. This is the first study to connect those factors to colony turnover rates.
When the team modeled the effect of a 50% reduction in lifespan on a beekeeping operation, where lost colonies are replaced annually, the resulting loss rates were around 33%. This is very similar to the average overwinter and annual loss rates of 30% and 40% reported by beekeepers over the past 14 years.
Nearman and vanEngelsdorp noted that their lab-kept bees could be experiencing some sort of low-level viral contamination or pesticide exposure during their larval stage, when they’re brooding in the hive and worker bees are feeding them. But the bees have not shown overt symptoms of those exposures and a genetic component to longevity has been shown in other insects such as fruit flies.
The next steps for the researchers will be to compare trends in honey bee lifespans across the U.S. and in other countries. If they find differences in longevity, they can isolate and compare potential contributing factors such as genetics, pesticide use and presence of viruses in the local bee stocks.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
One of the factors in the decline of bees are the horrid pesticides that are sprayed on the crops, that overtime have caused the bee populations grow weaker and then die-off. The EPA has even admitted to this as far back as 2016.
But the real elephant in the room is the advent of generational tech and EMF radiation absolutely crushing the bees, just like the bird populations are dying–off, as with many other creatures that are dying.
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Nothing will be done to stop this problem as hardly no one is bold enough to speak out about it, lest they be called a tinhat conspiracist.
No bees, no food.
[11] But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. [12] So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels. [13] Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! [14] I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. [15] The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. [16] He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee. Psalms 81:11-16
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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how long of lifespan do bees have? I really have no idea.
Whatever is true in this has already been figured into their scenario to control & monopolize all food production….discussed & tweaked for years at their annual senior creepster meetings of those cronies highest up & deepest in. Where they get their marching orders to pass on to the lesser cronies & ‘managers’ etc. The truly highest up and deepest in never showing their faces…though our Lord sees it all & when he begins his vengeance, there will be no place for them to hide.
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In the meantime, they’ll pay off ‘certified’ and ‘status quo’ cronies ridiculous amounts of money for learning the life cycles of bees & such, making sure to leave out what we really would need to know to hold the guilty accountable. People like Catharine Austin Fitts were warning of the millions and trillions that were going missing, why they refused to allow an audit of our government years ago….as they were transferring the wealth, setting the stage for the death of their own nation & people like the traitors they are, & the highest directing ones not even American, but European.
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They’re not going to talk about what they did that contributed to the circumstances resulting in the reduction of pollinators & crash of God’s natural food systems….anymore than they’re going to talk about what’s truly causing the ‘supply chain’ issues of men’s part of the food supply system & institutions, or the purposeful inflating & crashing of economies.
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It’s all antichrist all the time & they made sure to legalize the use of domestic propaganda against the American people in the waning days of the illegal Obama presidency to add to the confusion & insure their success. That told people paying attention 2 things: 1) that they’d already been doing it to other non-Americans & lying to Americans who questioned, & 2) that not only were they not worthy of our trust, but they were planning ahead for something even bigger & worse than what they’d already perpetrated.
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It’s so obvious now looking back. Yet I really didn’t see covid as part of that at first. A lot was fishy & not adding up, but such immense & widespread evil was still a shock. We’re not talking just elites who had to be complicit in these things anymore.
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Not one thing about the illegality of that presidency had anything to do with race & all to do with politics & demonstrating how easy it was for them to circumvent our laws & Constitution: flagging their people that the tipping point had been reached & the American people were now ‘fair game’. They used race for cover just like they do ‘green’ and ‘sustainability’…and could care less about minorities, animals & living things (all made of carbon…and earth built as a highly efficient & co-dependent cycle obviously showing design & self-healing properties), or the earth which they routinely rape for gain & without regard to stewardship & God, let alone their fellow mankind.
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That propaganda bill passage was a ‘marker’, like 9-11. Part of their right-left march…and waving dialectic arms: both attaching to the same body & joined partnership: MYSTERY & beast. The times of the Gentiles coming to their close.
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But they’ve got a BIIIIIIIIG surprise coming, when the Lord judges those who destroy the earth. When all the world is saying, ‘Peace and safety’….even dripping in blood & justifying themselves saying ‘we had to do it’, and ‘there was no other way’. Another war. Another persecution.
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The Lord will have the last word, & his people can see exactly what is happening & sufficient to his purposes, seeing & proving by the word of God. The just shall walk by faith…and faith cometh of hearing, hearing of the word of God.
Ya Lots of stuff here for sure ! but the most important picture is the Donkey leading the sheep ,it will come a time in the near future now when the Donkey is overwhelmed by the sheep ,who will be be the winners and regaining their freedom , bless ya’ll and stay safe but be prepared to fight the good fight xxxcliff longlands