The bees on the log look frighteningly large compared to the ones in the grass… is it just me?

Crazy. Kinda scary that there was nothing you could do here…

Wow - SCARY! Hopefully this is an isolated thing, not a continuing trend? It seems like there really is a glaring lack of in-depth research right now with the whole bee crisis. It’s been on the news, maybe once in the past year? To my recollection?

How sad and scary!
I feel one of the worst scams perpetrated on homeowners was lawn grass. It was genetically altered to grow from its base so does not need leaves for photosynthesis. It requires huge amounts of water, money and manpower to look after. It kills all of nature’s plants, now known as weeds, such as clover and camomile. Bees need nature but mankind decided he wanted a better economy.
Lawn grass is a huge money maker. Not only does turf, lawn seed, fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, lawn mowers, rakes, and weed eaters make huge amounts for CEO’s but the resulting cancers are keeping our doctors busy, hospitals running, legal drug companies rich and aging nuclear plants open.
A tragedy for our children.
Sad for the bees.

One Story About The Birds And The Bees
Inspired by Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

Let me tell you one story about the birds and the bees.
It started with love for the flowers and trees.
A horror story now; but I can tell it with ease.
A biologist, my hero, Rachel Carson agrees.
Man met a beetle, then his toxic sprays came down.
It killed lots of things and the elms all turned brown.
Bad business decided to let some life drown,
In pesticides, which are toxic. Does it not make you frown?
Honey bees, earthworms and birds pesticided.
Dandelions, clover, and trees herbicided.
Sadly, young lungs and livers toxi-cided.
Has man thought it through? Have his gods been confided?
Why poison annoying but such tasty bugs?
Why kill nature’s plants? To prescribe legal drugs?
How can we take down these immoral thugs?
We must stop them or die. No more life. No more hugs.
Mankind struggles with such a deadly habit.
He likes to destroy it. He likes to pollute it.
He exercises for ego, not to keep the earth fit,
For all children, who deserve their future on it.
Why spray to destroy, to abuse or to kill?
Is it just for the wealth, or for love of a thrill?
The left and the right fight a battle of will.
Most of us want to preserve the bird twill!
All of those able to damage with ease.
Make me sick to my senses and I want to cry ‘FREEZE!
We must save all the birds and the meek bumble bees!
For children’s sake. Please save them! Please! Pretty please!

Love Lora Bruncke

Tale of Two Grasses

A long time ago, when Nature ruled earth,
A great green grass grew. To smoke it gave mirth.
It relaxed the body and calmed the nerve.
The plant gave such joy; its purpose to serve.
Man made it illegal a short time ago.
He can’t forsee futures, nor any of the woe.
The grass that man likes, he must mow and then thatch.
He must pour on his poisons, killing nature’s flower patch.
His grass has been altered, to grow from its base.
He cuts off its top; no leaves hide its face.
It is watered and fertilized, with such loving care.
Then gives back so little, to oxygenate our air.
Hard drugs and legal ones are rampant now.
Mankind is in trouble, so I take a vow,
To tell the whole truth. I won’t tell you lies.
I have smoked with the Arabs and dreamt with the Thais.
The fight against drugs is being lost by mankind.
The more we say don’t, the more he must find.
How did one gain such favour, the other outlawed?
Lets look at all facts, see which ones are flawed.
We wanted such riches. We forgot common sense.
Many know the truth, but sit on the fence.
Man’s grass is a hybrid, Nature’s, a token of love.
Let’s right a great wrong. Legalize the bud from above.

Love Lora Bruncke

Hello,
The symptoms shown by the bees in the video are not classic Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) symptioms, but rather, and this is somewhat of a guess, associated with a pesticide poisoning, or the bees are suffereing from an internal paracite called tracheal mites, or, perhaps, a new disease called Nosema cerena. The photos with the wings apart, commonly called K Wing, are typical of these problems. CCD has bees leaving and not returning, rather than staying around and dying just ouside the hive.

Because its has been warm in most areas, you should inspect the hive for food stores. It may be that your bees are starving. CCD generally is marked by the absence of bees in the area of the hive. If they need food heavy sugar water (2:1) pouring a small amount on the cluster. Cold bees do not move far. If you inspect the hive and see dead bees with their head down in the comb, that’s starvation. If they are all around the various combs, it means they were warmed- then the cluster broke-they went searching for nearby food-found none-then died.

What Kim Flottam said (and he knows his stuff). The pics are a sure sign of K-Wing disease. using a good tracheal mite treatment in Fall and Spring is important; Apiguard and MiteAwayII are both organic acid treatments to consider (each has its own temperature requirements).

Hello Dan I am a journalist who is currently researching this subject for an article, for those who hoped this is an isolated incident, they are going to be sadly let down. This is definitely not an isolated incident, this is taking place world wide and has been on the rise since about 1950 but more recently since 2006 in Southern states particularly. Colony Collapse is most certainly a tragic event for your local ecology and economy. What it seems you have is a parasite or pesticide problem as Kim mentioned and you did the right thing by calling your local hive removers. i appreciate you blogging on this subject, it even helped me out with this article. Thank you, and i hope you found what i said helpful.

After many years of beekeeping in Holland (Dutch) this year i have lost five colony of bees.Disaster i have to start al over.

hi, danny i am a AMATEUR SCIENTIST i have been working on this for some time, when we see something like this we hopefully try to get samples so that we may conduct experments that will bring us closer to a answer.. please email me at moriartydean@ymail.com as for denny

looking for samples please contact me thank you

This is not CCD, as pointed out, with CCD you won’t find dead bees. This sounds and looks like your hive was deliberately poisoned with pesticides. Most likely by one of your neighbors.