Tag: pollination
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For Bee Alarmists, Groundhog Day Comes in June
WILL ACTIVISTS FINALLY ADMIT THEIR SINS AND BREAK OUT OF THEIR PESTICIDE-BLAMING TIME LOOP? by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Jun. 29, 2019) — Did you think Goundhog Day only comes in February? For anti-insecticide zealots and others in the environmentalist movement who’ve been preoccupied for years with bees and “colony collapse disorder,” it actually comes every…
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Don’t Bee-lieve the Latest Bee-pocalypse Scare
NOW WILD BEE JUNK SCIENCE AND SCARE STORIES DRIVE DEMANDS FOR ANTI-PESTICIDE REGULATIONS by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Aug. 27, 2016) — As stubborn facts ruin their narrative that neonicotinoid pesticides are causing a honeybee-pocalypse, environmental pressure groups are shifting to new scares to justify their demands for “neonic” bans. Honeybee populations and colony numbers in…
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Bee Facts Changed – Green Agendas Did Not
ACTIVISTS AND WHITE HOUSE APPEAR READY TO PRESENT NEW JUSTIFICATIONS FOR UNJUSTIFIED POLICIES by Paul Driessen, ©2015 (May 16, 2015) — The White House finally appears ready to announce conclusions and policy recommendations from the Pollinator Task Force it appointed a year ago. Environmentalist groups eagerly await the decision. After clamoring and campaigning for years…
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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…