PESTICIDES combinations are not HELPING honey bees.

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In this video, Dr. Humberto Boncristiani discusses a current issue in the blueberry industry: the potential impact of fungicides on honey bees. Honey bees are essential in pollinating blueberry crops, which is a billion-dollar industry. However, the use of fungicides in blueberry production may be harming honey bee populations. Dr. Boncristiani delves into a recent research article that tested the hypothesis that fungicides are implicated in the increased infection of European Foulbrood in honey bee colonies. The results are surprising and show that fungicides might be both harming and helping honey bee populations. He discusses the implications for the blueberry industry and the importance of further research on this topic. Dr. Boncristiani also invites viewers to a live stream with one of the researchers behind the study, Dr. Sarah Wood. The live stream is scheduled for Thursday, March 30th at 7:00 PM ET, and registration is free for all.
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[CastleHives]

Very interesting. This is what we need, research to show the benefits or the negative impacts on Honey Bees. I believe Bob Binnie speaks to the problems linked between fungicides and OAV. Good stuff Humberto. Looking forward to hearing you speak this weekend,

[sidelinerbeekeeper]

My bees pollinate low bush blueberry. I rented 240 colonies last year to 7 different growers. 10% of my colonies showed EFB while out to pollination. There is a new strain of EFB, and I had the first confirmed reported case in Nove Scotia. The farmers will divide the field in half, one year one half will sprout and the other half harvest. This allows a harvest in that field every year. My point is that not all farmers divide their fields in half. The EFB is showing up in hives that are on divided fields and not found in hives that are on fields that are only blossoming that year. (No sprout fields near by.) That finding would suggest the chemicals used on the sprout field are causing the EFB, which is interesting because the bees have no reason to go on a sprout field without blossoms. Maybe drift or over spray. Private laboratory testing has found those chemicals used on sprout fields in the effected EFB hives. Could you forward this message to your guest speaker on March 30th. I would also expect the chemicals used on a sprout field were probably not tested on a honey bees in development of the pesticide because the scientists would not expect honey bees to be working near a sprout field with no blossoms.

[EagleSoul]

Great video Humberto. I love learning from scientists and beekeepers around the world. And about our precious little bee girls 🐝. They give us so much we owe them their wellbeing and we're NOT even close yet. The good news is that with researchers like you they have a better chance. Big hug from Silvana from South America 🇺🇾

[aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

I'm going to have to watch that video again

[KaosABC]

I'm curious why a farmer would spray all 4? Is there a benefit to the crops or is it the case where they spray what ever is on sale at the moment? I'm lucky since the farms around me don't spray much at all and will rotate their fields through 6 different crops in a year including a fallow phase. Nothing is around long enough for any particular critter or pathogen to really get a foot hold to be significant. They don't plant crimson clover any more though. Those fields looked amazing when it's in bloom.

[Curtis]

Great video and thanks for explaining this complicated topic!

[dennishagans]

Wow sounds absolutely positive for the chemical companies, almost to the point of this guy being on their payroll.

pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, how do they synergize? are the chemical companies gonna step up to the plate and buy our fruits, nuts, veggies, and oils for us when all of our bees are dead from their chemicals?

[edersoncas]

The best thing is to change our way of planting. With the Syntropic Agroforest taught by Enerst Gosh, you don't need pesticides. Everything works in harmony. And in the end, excellent quality food is produced. And the planet regenerates.

[paulf]

Hasn't it always been the case, were arable farmers of grain or fruit farmers are always needing some product to control decease.
But these products aren't taking in the full effects off the chemical's being produced, or are some of the deceases being brought about by highbred seeds being invented by science.