Global Petition: Save Honey Bee From Extinction

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A Sweet Future: Saving The Honey Bees -- Nature's Perfect Food Pollinators

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# 421:

2:05 am PST, Jan 28, Bob Reading, United Kingdom
Please do not believe #419 from Maryland. There are MORE than 200 lethal pesticides. GM food does NOT kill bees, seeds are NOT injected with pesticides, eating nectar does NOT kill them, Bt/Dipel is NOT the most dangerous, it does NOT paralyze bee guts or kill them, is NOT attached to E coli etc, does NOT us. Other than that - fine.

# 420:

9:25 am PST, Jan 23, Christofer Jauneau, France

# 419:

4:38 pm PST, Jan 12, Pamela Dillon, Maryland
There are over 200 pesticides and herbicides that kill Bees. Genetically Manifactured Foods kill honey bees because the seed is injected with pesticides and when the honey bee eats the nectar they eventually die. The most dangerous is Bt which is called Dipel. There are hundreds of formulas. It paralyzes the Bees gut. This Bacillus Thuringiensis is attached to E-Coli, Salmonella, Mouse Pox and Herpes. This makes it more lethal to bugs. What is it doing to us? Stop this this use and take a stand for the Honey Bees and mankind.

# 418:

4:27 pm PST, Jan 12, Rhonda Lynn, California

# 417:

12:51 pm PST, Jan 11, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
i have signed this petition because i don,t want to see honeybees die out,and pledge to do as much as i can in my own garden to help.

# 416:

11:47 am PST, Jan 11, Barbara Herrman, West Virginia
Without bees, we'll starve.

# 415:

11:47 am PST, Jan 11, Johanne Simetin, Canada

# 414:

11:31 am PST, Jan 11, Thea Spaanstra, Netherlands

# 413:

11:05 am PST, Jan 11, David Giove, Illinois
Leave a hope for future bee populations and beekeepers. Stop the use of deadly pesticides on our crops, especially (and specifically) Methyl Bromide.

# 412:

11:22 am PST, Jan 9, Maho Masuda, Sweden

# 411:

6:27 pm PST, Jan 7, Name not displayed, Canada
They do so much for us, let's return the favour.

# 410:

6:19 am PST, Jan 2, Ralf Arno Wess, Germany

# 409:

4:04 pm PST, Dec 22, Carey Gross, New York

# 408:

11:08 am PST, Dec 17, Nancy Alexander, Virginia

# 407:

2:57 pm PST, Dec 15, Anne Seidel, Germany

# 406:

7:46 am PST, Dec 15, Name not displayed, Ohio

# 405:

3:10 am PST, Dec 15, Name not displayed, Spain

# 404:

1:30 pm PST, Dec 14, Melinda Mendez, New Jersey

# 403:

3:37 am PST, Dec 14, Mirjana Lukic, Spain

# 402:

10:49 am PST, Dec 13, Rachel Weaver, New York

# 401:

6:34 pm PST, Dec 11, Name not displayed, Delaware

# 400:

10:10 am PST, Dec 6, Filipe Freitas, Spain

# 399:

6:27 am PST, Dec 6, Iris Pereira, Spain

# 398:

3:00 pm PST, Dec 3, Jennifer Ppopoli, Venezuela
let´s help our honey bees111

# 397:

4:00 pm PST, Dec 2, Florie Gray, New Jersey

# 396:

10:52 pm PST, Dec 1, Name not displayed, California

# 395:

8:29 am PST, Dec 1, Love Animals Too, New York

# 394:

2:04 am PST, Dec 1, Roxanne Stanton, Australia

# 393:

10:11 pm PST, Nov 30, Mijanou Bauchau, California

# 392:

8:38 am PST, Nov 30, Lillian Ordaz, California

# 390:

7:22 am PST, Nov 29, Conor Stirk, United Kingdom

# 389:

11:07 pm PST, Nov 28, Angela Zarbano, Texas

# 388:

11:44 am PST, Nov 28, Name not displayed, California

# 387:

12:08 am PST, Nov 28, Gail Dair, Australia

# 386:

7:47 pm PST, Nov 27, Alvin Loong, Washington

# 385:

1:34 pm PST, Nov 27, Sympa Re, India

# 384:

1:14 pm PST, Nov 27, Shameen Schmidtke, South Africa

# 383:

12:49 pm PST, Nov 27, James Duffy, Canada

# 382:

11:31 am PST, Nov 27, Joanne Armstrong, United Kingdom

# 381:

8:38 am PST, Nov 27, Pepe Luis Crespo, Mexico

# 380:

9:50 pm PST, Nov 26, Jacob Green, Arkansas
Bees play an important role in pollinating flowering plants, and are the major type of pollinator in ecosystems that contain flowering plants. Bees either focus on gathering nectar or on gathering pollen depending on demand, especially in social species. Bees gathering nectar may accomplish pollination, but bees that are deliberately gathering pollen are more efficient pollinators. It is estimated that one third of the human food supply depends on insect pollination, most of which is accomplished by bees, especially the domesticated European honey bee. Contract pollination has overtaken the role of honey production for beekeepers in many countries. Monoculture and the massive decline of many bee species (both wild and domesticated) have increasingly caused honey bee keepers to become migratory so that bees can be concentrated in seasonally-varying high-demand areas of pollination. Most bees are fuzzy and carry an electrostatic charge, which aids in the adherence of pollen. Female bees periodically stop foraging and groom themselves to pack the pollen into the scopa, which is on the legs in most bees, and on the ventral abdomen on others, and modified into specialized pollen baskets on the legs of honey bees and their relatives. Many bees are opportunistic foragers, and will gather pollen from a variety of plants, while others are oligolectic, gathering pollen from only one or a few types of plant. A small number of plants produce nutritious floral oils rather than pollen, which are gathered and used by oligolectic bees. One small subgroup of stingless bees, called "vulture bees," is specialized to feed on carrion, and these are the only bees that do not use plant products as food. Pollen and nectar are usually combined together to form a "provision mass", which is often soupy, but can be firm. It is formed into various shapes (typically spheroid), and stored in a small chamber (a "cell"), with the egg deposited on the mass. The cell is typically sealed after the egg is laid, and the adult and larva never interact directly (a system called "mass provisioning"). In New Zealand scientists discovered that three genera of native bees have evolved to open flower buds of the native mistletoe Peraxilla tetrapetala. The buds cannot open themselves but are visited by birds such as the tui and bellbird which twist the top of the ripe bud. That action releases a mechanism which causes the petals to suddenly spring open, giving access to the nectar and pollen. However, when observing the native bees in the Canterbury province in the South Island, the scientists were astonished to see the bees biting the top off the buds, then pushing with their legs, occasionally popping open the buds to allow the bees to harvest the nectar and pollen, and therefore aid in the pollination of the mistletoe which is in decline in New Zealand. Nowhere else in the world have bees demonstrated ability to open explosive bird-adapted flowers. [2] Visiting flowers can be a dangerous occupation. Many assassin bugs and crab spiders hide in flowers to capture unwary bees. Other bees are lost to birds in flight. Insecticides used on blooming plants kill many bees, both by direct poisoning and by contamination of their food supply. A honey bee queen may lay 2000 eggs per day during spring buildup, but she also must lay 1000 to 1500 eggs per day during the foraging season, mostly to replace daily casualties, most of which are workers dying of old age. Among solitary and primitively social bees, however, lifetime reproduction is among the lowest of all insects, as it is common for females of such species to produce fewer than 25 offspring. The population value of bees depends partly on the individual efficiency of the bees, but also on the population itself. Thus while bumblebees have been found to be about ten times more efficient pollinators on cucurbits, the total efficiency of a colony of honey bees is much greater due to greater numbers. Likewise during early spring orchard blossoms, bumblebee populations are limited to only a few queens, and thus are not significant pollinators of early fruit.

# 379:

7:21 am PST, Nov 26, Ellen Gutfleisch, Wisconsin

# 378:

7:18 am PST, Nov 26, Kent John Clark, Wisconsin

# 377:

9:39 pm PST, Nov 25, Emma-Kate Hart, Australia

# 376:

8:34 pm PST, Nov 25, Philip Osborn, Alaska

# 375:

6:08 pm PST, Nov 25, Anne French, California
We cannot avoid collapse of our food supplies if we don't protect honey bees.

# 374:

4:50 pm PST, Nov 25, Alexandra Manolesco-Ami, Canada

# 373:

1:46 pm PST, Nov 25, Suzan Davies, Alaska

# 372:

12:44 pm PST, Nov 25, Andrea Steinke, United Kingdom
what will one expect if humans spray poisons into nature? There is no more to say.

# 371:

11:31 am PST, Nov 25, Patrick Kelly, Illinois

# 370:

10:58 am PST, Nov 25, Barry Hodson, United Kingdom

# 369:

10:55 am PST, Nov 25, Rita Kerkhofs, Belgium

# 368:

10:30 am PST, Nov 25, Ana Lakaliska, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of

# 367:

9:55 am PST, Nov 25, Debbie Gough, United Kingdom
Help Save the Honey Bee & our Planet

# 366:

9:52 am PST, Nov 25, Beverly Commissaris, Canada
Please send this message to everyone you know. WE NEED BEES!

# 365:

9:30 am PST, Nov 25, Cameron Halldorson, Canada

# 364:

8:23 am PST, Nov 25, Sean Johnson, Iowa
Honeybees are the canary in the coalmine (an indicator species) here in the Midwest for other pollinators. This year will be the worst year on record for honey production. Most of the Midwest's beekeepers expect 80% winter losses of honey bee colonies because of the lack of stored honey and many beekeepers will be hit hard financially because of a lack of any excess honey to sell. Native pollinators (bumble bees, manson bees, etc) are surely going to be adversely affected as well and by next spring/summer, there will likely be a shortage of both native pollinators and domesticated honeybees to do the much needed work of pollination of the food feed humans directly and indirectly. The biggest factor in this is the lack of habitat and diversity of pollen and nectar sources for these beneficial insects. The next biggest factor is the use of insecticides/pesticides that are widely used with no real concern how it affects these insects. Thirdly, would be climate and weather changes. The increased rainfall and cooler weather here in the Midwest was a major factor in this years lack of honey production. Not enough research has been done on how to overcome these factors to insure that we continue to have reliable pollination for food crops. If we do not find a way to overcome these problems, food shortages and lack of diversity in our own food supply will follow within less than one year. Do not underestimate this problem or the effects it will have on multiple sectors of the economy, not just the agricultural sector. Thanks, Sean Johnson

# 363:

7:40 am PST, Nov 25, Poorvi Perpetua De Sa, India

# 362:

5:59 am PST, Nov 25, Name not displayed, Iowa
I am very concerned about the bees and know research is being done here at ISU, we need to discover their demise and stop doing what is causing it.

# 361:

4:18 am PST, Nov 25, Lynne Edwards, Massachusetts

# 360:

12:48 am PST, Nov 25, Aija Arikane, Ireland

# 359:

12:28 am PST, Nov 25, Loesje Najoan, Netherlands

# 358:

12:17 am PST, Nov 25, Ekeim Teeuwisse, Netherlands

# 357:

12:01 am PST, Nov 25, Josephia Tania, Indonesia

# 356:

11:55 pm PST, Nov 24, Lyhann O'Shaughnessy, Mexico

# 355:

10:10 pm PST, Nov 24, Lauren Stone, California
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# 354:

9:23 pm PST, Nov 24, Judy De Groot, Australia

# 353:

8:59 pm PST, Nov 24, Louise Odams, South Africa

# 352:

7:19 pm PST, Nov 24, Michael Martin, Canada

# 351:

6:17 pm PST, Nov 24, Jacki Hileman, California

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