"Will Bee Sperm Bank save Bees
or leaving us looking
for the female bee?"
~ Cynthia G. Creel
6-20-2013
My Story:
This week I saw some more bees on the farm in the garden. This year has been noticeably different than last year. So few bees and the ones that did show up have different coloring. My farm is like a safe haven for the wild life, such as bees. They have pesticide free plants, wild plants to farming plants and can munch on grape nectar in the fall. The garden is a bee’s delight, just the way it should be.
Bees dying at an alarming rate:
As I wrote about the bee populate which seems like it is a loosing battle (2) the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Apiary Inspectors of America said in “May that more than 30 percent of America's managed honeybee colonies were lost during the winter of 2012-13, up sharply from around 22 percent the previous winter but still close to the six-year average.”
New plan to save the honey bees with a frozen semen bank:
Researchers from Washington State University (WSU) (1) have hatched a new plan to save the bees by creating a frozen semen bank from certain U.S. and European honey bee colonies to be used in genetic cross-breading to produce more diverse, resilient honey bees to help combat the honey bee colony collapse crisis.
Today’s honeybees are loosing ground fast with invasive mites that steal their strength and vector viruses. Along with the possible building up of pesticides in the brood comb and eventually leading to a weaken bees. With the current use of mono-culture agriculture which depends on a very small amount of genetic variants or variety of food which is nutritiously lacking such as corn syrup (2). A combinations of all of these factors are thought create the colony collapse disorder (CCD), where the worker bees disappear and the colony is unable to support itself and the entire bee population of that colony becomes doomed
28 subspecies of honey bees There are 28 recognized subspecies of bees. The USDA gave permission for WSU in 2008 to import honey bee semen to create a stronger bee. Live semen is collected from the male bee, drone and can live up to 14 days a room temperature that can be frozen then injected into a queen bee's oviduct, to produce more bees.
Final words:
We might be able to live without the bees, but not without a great loss of food. Hand painting blooms to pollinate is not my idea of creating crops, bees do it so much better.
As usual I look for simple answers. The saving of the semen is a great emergency idea, however how is the cross breeding going to affect the bee population? In the long run how would this affect the food production. If the “new” bees are in the wild how will be prevent cross contamination just like any other GMO (genetically modified organism)
Only if we need to save the bee population’s by changing the genetics forever should this be done. The one question I keep coming back is have we simply tried changing the food supply back to honey to solve their problems. This would mean more expensive honey and less to be collected but may just save the current bee population so we don't have to go to such extremes as saving sperm keeping the current population untouched genetically.
Only being feed corn syrup seems to have a grand disadvantage for the bees. Limiting the exposure to pesticide is reasonable also. Just changing the bees seems like opening Pandora’s box especially when all the options are not being taken care of.
Looking at the whole picture always helps me make a better choice. Be more proactive we can all become just a little bit better and the more likely the negative results in life can be avoided. Stand up tall with an upright posture and be proactive. The solution helps to keep moving the best direction is to step onto the path of True Health. Discover a new world. Help yourself, help the world, step on to the Path of True Health and vote with your dollars company you want to support to create a world you will love to live in. I do, and I like the world I am helping to create. Together we can create a better life for all to remember over their entire lifetime Together we can protect what we have so we don’t need to live in a world that is second rate.
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Source:
(1) http://news.wsu.edu/pages/publications.asp?Action=Detail&PublicationID=36513
(2) http://lifeisgoodbydesign.blogspot.com/2013/06/is-high-fructose-corn-syrup-helping-to.html
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