Tag: parasites
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Ban Neonics – Hurt Farmers and Bees
“WRONGHEADED AND COUNTERPRODUCTIVE” by Paul Driessen, ©2020 (Jul. 12, 2020) — Organic pesticides, and other organic chemicals, are more dangerous to bees … and people The honeybees, bumblebees and other little pollinators swarming over my flowers remind me what important roles they play – and how some misguided folks could inadvertently hurt them. Montgomery County,…
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What Happened on Oahu Didn’t Stay on Oahu
SCIENTIFIC DETECTIVE WORK STOPPED CHOLERA – NOW IT NEEDS TO SEPARATE MYTHS, MITES AND NEONICS by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Mar. 27, 2016) — If modern activist groups held sway in the mid-nineteenth century, countless multitudes would have died from typhoid fever and cholera. The “miasma” paradigm held that the diseases were caused by foul air arising…
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Endangering our Citrus Industry
APPEALS COURT DECISION MAKES IT HARDER TO PROTECT TREES FROM A DEVASTATING CITRUS DISEASE by Paul Driessen, ©2015 (Nov. 22, 2015) — Florida’s citrus harvest has plummeted 60 percent from ten years ago, because of citrus greening disease, a bacterial infection that causes trees to produce stunted fruit and eventually die. The disease has also been…
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Perils of Commercial Beekeeping
HONEYBEES POLLINATE CROPS BUT ENDURE STRESS, PARASITES AND DISEASE. SOLUTIONS ARE COMING. by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (Apr. 6, 2014) — One of America’s earliest food crops – almonds – is also one of the most important for commercial beekeepers. Almonds depend on bees for pollination, but the explosive growth of this bumper crop taxes the very…