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Post by kammy on Apr 13, 2010 5:37:06 GMT -5
Desperate Efforts to Save Endangered Bats May Fail Read More www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/big-eared-bat-captive-colony/#ixzz0kyXT0rAL"A fierce attempt to keep endangered Virginia big-eared bats alive in captivity has shown just how difficult that noble task may be. The project also cost $300,000, a big chunk of the $1.9 million allotted by Congress for research on white nose syndrome, or WNS." Congress allots the bats $1.9 million but us humans get a measly $300,000 to study our disease? $300,000 = 40 bats = 500 humans Controversy Erupts Over Captive Endangered Bat Colony Read More www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/bat-colony-update/#ixzz0kyaTrkBQ"A bitter controversy is brewing over a captive colony of endangered Virginia big-eared bats, founded in November as a hedge against disease driving the species to extinction in the wild. Of 40 bats put in the colony, only 10 have survived."
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Post by kammy on Apr 13, 2010 6:05:30 GMT -5
Mysterious disorder decimating bee colonies readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=211801"Phenomenon is wreaking havoc on hives and raising fears about the food supply. "There is no doubt that farmers are paying more for pollination than they ever have before," Frazier said, and that cost will be passed on to consumers. Danenhower has raised bees for more than 30 years. He has seen problems such as mites wreak havoc on hives before, but he has never seen so many of his bees die in one winter."
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Post by kammy on Apr 13, 2010 6:10:27 GMT -5
Bees in more trouble than ever after bad winter www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2010-03-24-disappearing-bees_N.htm?csp=outbrain&obref=obnetwork"Two federal agencies along with regulators in California and Canada are scrambling to figure out what is behind this relatively recent threat, ordering new research on pesticides used in fields and orchards. Federal courts are even weighing in this month, ruling that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency overlooked a requirement when allowing a pesticide on the market." Wonder which one it was? "None of the chemicals themselves were at high enough levels to kill bees, he said, but it was the combination and variety of them that is worrisome. Bayer Crop Science started petitioning the agency to approve a new pesticide for sale in 2006. After reviewing the company's studies of its effects on bees, the EPA gave Bayer conditional approval to sell the product two years later, but said it had to carry a label warning that it was "potentially toxic to honey bee larvae through residues in pollen and nectar." The Natural Resources Defense Council sued, saying the agency failed to give the public timely notice for the new pesticide application. In December, a federal judge in New York agreed, banning the pesticide's sale and earlier this month, two more judges upheld the ruling. "This court decision is obviously very painful for us right now, and for growers who don't have access to that product," said Jack Boyne, an entomologist and spokesman for Bayer Crop Science. "This product quite frankly is not harmful to honeybees."" What about their mites?
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Post by kammy on Apr 13, 2010 6:41:36 GMT -5
Fungus kills off 90% of NJ bat population APRIL 3, 2010 www.mycentraljersey.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2010100403011"HACKENSNACK — A fungus has killed off about 90 percent of the state's bat population, according to scientists who recently conducted a count of hibernating bats. The bat deaths come at a particularly bad time in New Jersey, where mosquito control experts worry that the recent rains and floods have created ample breeding grounds for mosquitoes that could result in an unusually large mosquito population. A single bat can consume more than 3,000 mosquitoes on a single summer night. Biologists in affected states are discussing ways to help the decimated bat population recover. They are testing various fungicides, hoping to find one that might help bats recover without harming them." That should be interesting... give them more fungus? Spray them with chemtrails at night - that'll fix 'em. - geez! They don't know how the bats are dying - it might be related to how the frog are dying? Do you wonder if the frog people are talking to the bee and bat people? Yes, it appears that a different white fuzzy fungus is involved with the bats and frogs - what if... there was a way that a combination of three different fungi/bacteria/others have come together in nature and let's say that the frogs could only pick up one of the three, and the bats another one of the three?... and the bees mites - the other - to make it look like they were all suffering from something different? What if the clues lay with man - who is holding all of them, waiting on them to recognize us?
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Post by kammy on Apr 13, 2010 7:21:52 GMT -5
State shifts light brown apple moth fight from eradication to control 03/24/2010 www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_14745923"The U.S. Department of Agriculture came to the same conclusion, announcing its decision to abandon eradication as a goal last week. In a press release, the department said eradication couldn't be pursued "until new tools, such as sterile insect technology, are fully developed and ready for widespread use." In 2009, 43,347 light brown apple moths were trapped in Santa Cruz County, up from 11,095 in 2007, according to state figures. The number of moths trapped statewide has grown from 16,812 in 2007 to 203,986 last year. The light brown apple moth was first trapped in California in 2006 in a Berkeley backyard. It has since been found in a more than a dozen counties, with the greatest populations in Santa Cruz and San Francisco counties."
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Post by kammy on Apr 13, 2010 7:45:08 GMT -5
Let me look at Bayer's Spirotetramat (Movento®) insecticide, since it's been implicated, again. Jan 14, 2010 email about EPA's pending lawsuit in regard to their "clerical error": wsprs.wsu.edu/Spirotetramat/Spirptetramat1_Request.pdfJan 5, 2010 www.calcitrusquality.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/Advisory-Spirotetramat-15101.pdf"EPA Action Called Deficient "The EPA's failure to provide notice, invite comment, and publish its registration in this case constitutes a serious deficiency," Judge Denise Cote said in her order. EPA "utterly failed to comply ... and has offered no explanation whatsoever for these shortcomings," Cote said. " EPA admitted to approving the pesticide illegally, but argued that its violations of the law should have no consequences," Colangelo said. He added that "Bayer should not be permitted to run what amounts to an uncontrolled experiment on bees across the country without full consideration of the consequences." EPA conceded that "it did not publish a notice of registration in the Federal Register for any of these decisions until August 6, 2009, three months after the plaintiffs filed this lawsuit," the court order said. In the document, EPA recommended a study developed in collaboration with the Environmental Fate and Effects Division's chemical teams as well as with the USDA Agricultural Research Service Bee Research Lab for spirotetramat, spiromesifen, and spirodiclofen."
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Post by jeany on Apr 13, 2010 7:53:25 GMT -5
Let the bee announce it what happened! ;D
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Post by kammy on Apr 13, 2010 7:54:20 GMT -5
Tell us, Mr. Bee, what's going on? lol
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Post by kammy on Apr 13, 2010 8:53:02 GMT -5
Spiromesifen, Spirodiclofen, Spirotetramat www.bayercropscience.com/BCSWeb/CropProtection.nsf/id/spiromesifen.htm?open&l=EN&ccm=200020Insecticide / Acaricide "Acaricide: An agent, usually a chemical, that kills mites or ticks. This class of pesticides is large and includes antibiotic acaricides, carbamate acaricides, formamidine acaricides, mite growth regulators, organophosphate acaricides, and many others. From the Latin acarus, a mite + -cide, to kill." Chemical Class is: Keto-enol *Note: to those that studied the Raman Graphs of the fibers, note the peak at/around 450 of #6: www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/NJ/article.asp?Type=Issue&Journalcode=NJ&Issue=3&SubYear=2005&Volume=29&Page=0&GA=on"On simply changing the concentration of the reactant, either p-tert-butyldihomooxacalix[5]arene or p-tert-butyltetrahomodioxacalix[10]arene can be obtained as the main product in the thermal dehydration of a bishydroxymethylated pentaphenol. The two compounds are suitable for complexation of uranyl ion in the presence of amines, and the X-ray crystal structures of two such complexes are reported. In the complex with p-tert-butyldihomooxacalix[5]arene, the uranyl ion is sandwiched between two macrocycles, in such a way that each of its two oxo atoms is directed towards the cavity of one homooxacalixarene arranged in a cone conformation. On the other hand p-tert-butyltetrahomodioxacalix[10]arene, in its deca-anionic form, complexes four uranyl ions to give one of the largest species in this family."
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Post by kammy on Apr 13, 2010 9:43:55 GMT -5
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Post by kammy on Apr 13, 2010 9:56:20 GMT -5
I'm tired of looking at pesticides and nematodes... let's look at the ladybugs a minute?: Just as I thought!... Ladybug population in decline www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0052EI"Studies conducted by a network of amateur natural history societies have shown that numbers of the beetles have dropped sharply in the past four years. Ladybirds, also known as "Bishop Barnabee" or, in Yorkshire, the "cushcow lady", are vital in controlling greenfly and other aphids which feed on garden plants. Paul Mabbott, an ecologist with the London Natural History Society, said his members had detected a sharp fall in all 29 lady species." Research to eye decline in ladybug population findarticles.com/p/news-articles/charleston-daily-mail/mi_8044/is_20090907/research-eye-decline-ladybug-population/ai_n46335605/"ITHACA, N.Y. - A year after they launched a nationwide search for dwindling native ladybugs, New York researchers are breeding colonies of them from insects found by citizen scientists in Oregon and Colorado." It's starting to look like anything that eats an insect/mite/aphid is soon to be in trouble? Fleas, mites, ticks, mosquitoes, flies, gnats, wasps, bees?, bats... anything that can receive/transmit a blood meal - all are suspect carriers of Morgellons and/or Lymes, we need some of these cultured in Petri Dishes to see if our artifacts grow?
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Post by kammy on Apr 13, 2010 10:19:43 GMT -5
Interesting that they are quickly trying to pull these products above off the market before a single chemical analysis of our disease can be done to compare it? By the time we go to look - we won't be able to find them. All of the literature, chemical compositions will probably be gone, too. We'll have to query some farmer to go see if he has some leftovers out in his barn?... Convenient, isn't it?
(At least, check in your garden centers to see if they still have it - before it's all gone?)
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Post by kammy on Apr 13, 2010 11:13:48 GMT -5
And come to think of it - for the past 2 years, I haven't seen a firefly in the summer and the cricket sounds have become fewer and fewer - and I think the katydids, too?... uh - pay attention this summer if you live where you normally hear these sounds? www.firefly.org/why-are-fireflies-disappearing.html"Why Are Fireflies Disappearing? Nobody knows for sure. But most researchers blame two main factors: development and light pollution." Firefly populations are disappearing www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/world/asia/20iht-fireflies.1.17990392.html?_r=1(I lived in the 'country part' of Atlanta, 8 acres of woods behind me and 12 in front...)
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Post by kammy on Apr 13, 2010 11:25:04 GMT -5
Was anyone aware that all of this was going on now - at the same time? I had no idea, I'm not sure how the lion fits in...? Africian Lion Population Declining zoonewsdigest.blogspot.com/2010/01/african-lion-population-declining.html"In reality, there has been a sharp and rapid decline in lion populations. A new report points to two strategies that if adopted may help to revive them. In just the last 20 years, scientists say that Africa's lion population has plummeted by about 85%, from about 200,000 to about 23,000 to 26,000. That's not a decline, it's an emergency."
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Post by kammy on Apr 13, 2010 11:28:04 GMT -5
Field Cricket (Gryllus campestris) www.ukbap.org.uk/UKPlans.aspx?ID=343"The field-cricket is an extremely rare, declining and vulnerable insect which, in the UK, is restricted to one natural population, consisting of three sub-populations, within one square kilometre in West Sussex. In Great Britain this species is classified as Endangered." Adapting Itself Into Oblivion? news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2006/09/21-02.html"Somewhere in Hawaii, a population of crickets has grown eerily silent. The culprit? Evolution. To avoid detection by a parasitic fly, the insects have-- over only 20 generations--developed wings that don't chirp. But the silence has its downside: The muted males can no longer catch the attention of potential mates. Behavioral ecologist Marlene Zuk of the University of California, Riverside, has witnessed the consequences firsthand. Since 1991, she's studied a population of black field crickets on the island of Kauai, a third of which harbor the parasitic flies. And each year, she's heard less and less chirping at night. Clearly, the cricket population was on the decline."
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Post by kammy on Apr 13, 2010 11:42:14 GMT -5
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Post by kammy on Apr 13, 2010 11:50:41 GMT -5
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Post by kammy on Apr 13, 2010 12:10:33 GMT -5
Geez! Well... isn't this a pretty picture? It's called 'reality' in the mind of the delusional. Who is living the delusions - the delusional or the sane? What's so funny, not - is that both think the other is absolutely crazy.
It looks like - once again, the innocent are going to be hurt. Did you see where because the farmers are going to have to pay more for the bees to come pollinate their crops - they will pass these costs on to you - the consumer?
Don't get too worried about pollination, folks - according to what I'm seeing - there should be PLENTY of fungus gnats in the environment to pick up where the bees and other pollinators left off.
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vasue
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Post by vasue on Apr 13, 2010 14:57:34 GMT -5
As an organic gardener, I've been seeing the fungal & nematode "green" (not) insecticides offered for many years. One summer the Japanese beetles were ferocious & I looked into Milky Spore fungus to treat the lawn where the grub stage tunnels. Turns out Milky Spore infects all soft-bodied insects - which includes crickets & butterfly caterpillars - by killing the insect & then releasing thousands more spores until it inhabits every inch of earth. Sounded like a bad idea to me! But many gardeners wouldn't question the ads about who else it kills & how it works. When the nematode & predator mite products came along, didn't bother to research, figuring they were more short-sighted ideas from our illustrious Department of Agriculture, infamous for their "fixes" that cause worse problems. (Kudzu, the vine that overtook the South, is but one of their bright ideas.) The pre-emergant seed killers made from corn (so what's in corn suddenly that kills "weed" & other seeds, I wondered & now know) also seemed highly suspect. But these, and systemic fungicides & pesticides of many kinds, are routinely targeted to home gardeners. Here's a sample: tinyurl.com/yynq35kFriends at a garden club last year complained their gardens had all been ravaged by Japanese beetles last Summer. They frankly did not believe me when I said my large garden only had a few & thrived. And I still enjoy many wild friends & neighbors, including the frogs, lightening bugs, ladybugs, bats & butterflies!
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Post by kammy on Apr 14, 2010 5:24:47 GMT -5
Yes, Vasue - I'm seeing this "Milky Spore" product as like a given in gardening - I'm wondering about it - it is highly suspicious.
So, you aren't using the Milky Spore nor the mite-icides and having success and seeing our other friends, too?
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