If bees are dying off is there a way to bring their population back by using organic farming and gardening?

Question

If bees are dying off is there a way to bring their population back by using organic farming and gardening?

Answer 1

Not if a virus or parasite is causing the die-off, which is the current speculation. Strangely enough, irradiating the hives seems to help, which is one reason scientists think it's a bug killing the bees.

Answer 2

what is killing them is ,mites ,disease,climate change and killer bees ,

not  much to do with types of farming

Answer 3

not while the cm corn is killing them off

monsantos gm corn has made the animals fed it sterile

now the bees , we can count on organic self replicating seeds but gm polin has contaminated them too

isnt monsanto great?

how did they manage to sabotage all that food sop fast

govt went to sleep , too much money no time to do the research

Answer 4

They don't know exactly what is causing it yet, so there's no way to say.

I'm hoping it turns out to be something singular, like insecticides containing what's called "the neonicotinoid imidacloprid."  

"...an insecticide manufactured by Bayer Cropscience (part of the drug and chemical conglomerate Bayer AG). It is sold under a variety of trade names including Admire, Advantage, Gaucho, Confidor, Hachikusan, Premise, Prothor, and Winner."

It appears capable of producing the symptoms of depressed immune response and disorientation that have been observed.  

Yes, once their immune response is compromised, they certainly do tend to die of lots of other things; mites, fungus, etc.  But if the other things are not the underlying cause, treating them symptomatically is not the best response.

Bannning imidacloprid would be the best response, if it becomes more certainly implicated.  

France has banned imidacloprid for several years already over this issue.  I am interested to find out if they've seen any benefit from that.

Like I said, I am hoping the cause can be narrowed down to such a thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_Coll...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imidaclopri...

Answer 5

You're assuming the bees are dying off due to insecticides and/or environmental pollution.  Not necessarily true.  The bees could be dying from a naturally occuring virus, bacteria, or fungus, in which case organic practices would have little, if any, impact.  Some research is suggesting that cell phone towers and the resulting microwave radiation is confusing the bees homing capabilities.  Bees have very little energy reserves.  If a bee cannot find it's way back to the hive, it quickly dies of starvation.