[Pil-pc-oceania] The buzz on CCD in bees

[robinet at aapt.net.au]

That's exactly what I mean Joel, add to that over-worked stressed-out bees in
the case of the US.  Some people seem to still be looking for one sole cause
but any permaculturist is looking at the situation holistically.

Robyn

Quoting Joel Meadows:

> As for your comment that the cause is a "no-brainer", I'm not sue that I
> understand what you mean. Having read the report I feel more than ever that
> CCD is the result of a combination of factors (extreme migratory practices,
> monocultural farming - and the lack of access to weeds and other plants that
> that entails, pesticide use, antibiotics use, artificial feeding of bees and
> all this set against a back drop of a parasitic mite and the pathogens is
> creates pathways for).
>