Florida -Honey Bee carcasses coated ground around hundreds of Florida beehives

bee keepers suspect that their bees were poisoned with pesticide. Florida agriculture officials and the local sheriff's office are both investigating. No one can tell yet what killed as many as 12 million bees from 800 hives this week in Brevard County, on central Florida's Atlantic coast. The massive bee die-off has stung Charles Smith, whose Smith Family Honey Company lost $150,000 worth of bees.

Hmmm.. have to wonder what could have killed them...that's a lot of chemicals - spraying from the air?

'The fact that it was so widespread and so rapid, I think you can pretty much rule out disease,' Bill Kern, a University of Florida entomologist, told Florida Today. 'It happened essentially almost in one day. Usually diseases affect adults or the brood, you don’t have something that kills them both.'

Any member in this area who have seen spraying as of late?

Complete write up

WOW!!!!!

I feel soooo sorry for this man as I feel wrenched within my heart just reading this...BLESS HIS HEART!

Of course I feel for the millions of bees too. I wonder how long it will take them to figure out what happened to them? The poison from the air must have been a high dosage otherwise I have to think it must be a quick spreading virus. Time will tell.....for sure.

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already in discussion here:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
id say use search but people just sound like ##SNIP## when they say that

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I read this story several days ago and immediately wondered if some crop duster did the deed-- innocently or otherwise...

There are a few of those companies operating in that area. Here's an example:

www.dexknows.com...

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If it's in Breaking News, a companion thread elsewhere on the boards is permitted.

Originally posted by UniverSoul
reply to post by summer5

 

already in discussion here:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
id say use search but people just sound like ##SNIP## when they say that

Actually I did do a search first (I typically do), and I didn't see anything recent

Originally posted by loam
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If it's in Breaking News, a companion thread elsewhere on the boards is permitted.

oh well lucky i didnt tell her to use search haha

and a crop duster is possible

some other ideas raised in the other thread were:
-chemtrails
-mosquito killing chemicals
-sabotage

its pretty dangerous if this becomes a trend because bees and other pollenating animals play a big part in the whole life system

It could also be planes spraying chemicals, has there been any reports of strange aircraft in the area spraying?

This is troublesome for one reason. If alot of bees die off, the world as we know it would be on the brink of chaos, without bees to pollenise plants, things will turn from bad to worse and humanity's days will be numbered once bees seize to exist.