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Apitherapy
Reseach on this topic is coordinated
by centre for ecological beekeeping (in German: Zentrum fuer wesensgemaesse
Bienenhaltung) and by scientists from several universities in Germany and
other countries. More and more it turns out that not only pollen and other
parts from crops modified by Agro-biotechnology are responsible for a weakening
of beecolonies, but also artificial frames, foundations and combs.
Is the colony being disturbed, while it is being forced to get along with new and unnatural substances, it never had selected itself (for example. Plastic combs), or comes in contact with it (special pesticides, GE-pollen), thus this can not only lead to communication - disorders within the colony, but causes by that also till now unexplainable phenomena. Because, if the communication is disturbed, the nectar - and pollen foragers can not decipher that "bee language" in the hive anymore, or too less foragers react on the bee dances (which show up the distance and quality of the feed source), thus too less nutritious pollen resp. nectar is going to be collected and the colony dies by starvation. Apiculture 2 (1) 2003
New scientific research turned out that plastic combs, artificial foundation and frames as they are in parts also allowed in organic beekeeping, lead to a collapse of communication system of a beecolony. Important to know is the fact that a naturally built comb is not only used for storage of honey and pollen or brood rearing but it is also a kind of "world-wide-comb"; honeybees use it for tele-communication and transmitting of information.
Learning more not only on the phenomenon honeybee but also on how to keep honeybees according their character in the age of solar economy: Training in the Centre for Ecological Apiculture
Further reading regarding the latest scientific review on this research can be found in our publications. See also press-release 2003 below.
2007 Dec 18
Centre
for Ecological Apiculture
beekeeping courses for beginners: ecological
top-bar-beekeeping for beginners
See also: online book "Side-effects
of pesticides / health hazards of genetic engineering"
International science magazines:
Apicultural
Review Letters
Natural
Science
Science
Review Letters
The health conditions of the honeybee are in the industrialized countries of the earth increasingly worse. Colony losses of 30% - 50% of the stock in 2002/2003 were no rarity at apiaries in Germany, France, Austria and somewhere else.
Through determined beekeeping conditions the bee became over decades treated so unnatural, that it's immune system and "blood system" is debilitated; Parasites, viruses etc. are only the symptoms.
Not only newer investigations from Germany have turned out, how important determined, from the bees themselves produced substances and structures are for the communication in the colony. Is the colony being disturbed, while it is being forced to get along with new and unnatural substances, it never had selected itself (for example. Plastic combs), or comes in contact with it (special pesticides, GE-pollen), thus this can not only lead to communication - disorders within the colony, but causes by that also till now unexplainable phenomena. Because, if the communication is disturbed, the nectar - and pollen foragers can not decipher that "bee language" in the hive anymore, or too less foragers react on the bee dances (which show up the distance and quality of the feed source), thus too less nutritious pollen resp. nectar is going to be collected and the colony dies by starvation.
2003 March 3
T+T Consult
More Information:
Apiculture
2
(1) 2003