Program: The Future or Bees

Our food source would decrease without cross pollination.

Yes its true,our food source would decrease without cross pollination.

I would hate to be a Bee..Im to lazy LOL. Very good information and I did not know how important they really are.

I don't know if everyone truly understands how serious this bee crisis is. This program is a great eye opener - more people should benefit from the download.

Bees are important because they cross polinate vegetables, grains, etc. They are important across most the world for doing this.

My parents have a farm - "Vegatable" A neighbor has 10 hives on their property. I had heard of this problem several years ago and I had heard of the impact. Very interesting artical. I had not considered the total problem till now.

interesting plant flowers!

very interesting topic. I had heard about this in the news.

Very Interesting

RE; FUTURE OF BEES... HAVING BEEN A BEE KEEPER MYSELF AT ONE TIME, I FOUND THIS INFORMATION MOST INTERESTING!

THE SITE FOR YOUR MEETINGS IS EASY TO GET AROUND COMPARED TO OTHER ECLUB SITES AVAILABLE. CONTEXT AND SESSIONS ARE INFORMATITIVE AND COMPACT.

Very interesting. I knew that we depended on bees, but I didn't realize it was this big a deal. Not surprising that our greed for quick & easy profit is hurting us in yet another way.

A very informative program on the honey bee. Thanks

This is a critical topic and impacts us in so many ways. It was great to know the problem was related to a mite infestation which early on we did not know what was causing the disapperance of the bees.

Very informative and interesting.

I really enjoy seeing all the honey bees around the native plantings at the hotel I manage. They are so necessary in nature, and I hope they increase their numbers exponentially.

Up to date electronic equuipment has not arrived yet in the Canadian Arctic where I currently work as a physician. The program did not come through very well.. Pity!Back home I am also beekeeper and have had nothing but trouble to keep the colonies healthy. However my mason bees are great and working hard, I will have to do without my own honey

Very interesting. Something you just don't think about, but you really should.

This is great!

I enjoyed the topic especially since I live very close to Vermont.

An interesting subject I have never read anything about in the past.

Great format. I have used you site previously and always find it interesting to bring back ideas from your club to my local club re. projects with which you are involved. I also really appreciate to variety of programs from which to choose, and have found all to be informative. Thanks.

Fascinating program. I wish I wasn't so allergic to flora and faune - I'd plant a garden for pollination. Thanks for the info.

I was completely unaware of problem. I do like opportunity to attend a makeup session online.

I like the simplicty of your meeting as well as the inspirational thoughts provided.

This was my first e-meeting visit and I found your site to be very useful and informative.

Very interesting!

The program was very good. I work with bees as a hobby.

one of my new year's resolutions was to make 2009 a year of 100% attendance (I've been a rotarian since 1998 & have not achieved 100% yet). Attendance was a major reason I delayed participating in Rotary as business demands make 100% very difficult for me. Your eClub gives me a shot at 100% for 2009 & I appreciate it.

I actuslly had read about this before. It has surprisingly big effects.

No to be obvious, but the world is pretty connected. I hope the bees make it for all our sakes.

never realized what an important role the bees play

Interesting information! I've been listening to shows about this topic for the past few years, The Honey Bee Die-off http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2007/03/16.html One can get a map of the latest bee Colony Collapse Disorder (census) in PDF format from here: http://beealert.blackfoot.net/~beealert/index.php

Very interesting. Amazing how little we know about the wonderful world of nature.

thanks for this hopeful and informative piece

I did learn some pretty cool information about bees

Very interesting, thank you for making me more aware. There were tips that we all can have a part in.

this was a really interesting program. I had a friend how had bees for years. He said the best honey was from cotton. Go figure.

The varroa mite will become a household name.

I have heard about this problem with bees and does a much better job of educating me than Jerry Seinfeld's "Bee Movies"!

This subject has been a concern of mine, and I am happy it is being addressed now. Hopefully, we will all do our part in saving the bees.

We need to protect our enviornment and keep bees healthy.

Great topic. I will be back to your site...very good format

EXCELLENT PROGRAM

Very interesting! Had no idea of the importance of the honeybee to the ecosystem.

Very interesting and a little scary

Fascinating and informative. Save the bees!

Great program--very interesting. I made the whole family read it.

The bee program was exceptional!

Very interesting. I have ben follwoing this issue in the Economist - and was pleased to see similar news a few weeks ago that they seemed to have narrowed down the cause of CCD to shear overwork. Now that the economy is slowing down the bees are being transported less and hives are douing much better. Just shows that there's no such thing as a free lunch.

Very interesting. I have ben follwoing this issue in the Economist - and was pleased to see similar news a few weeks ago that they seemed to have narrowed down the cause of CCD to shear overwork. Now that the economy is slowing down the bees are being transported less and hives are douing much better. Just shows that there's no such thing as a free lunch.

Very interesting article about bees! It is good to know that we are beginning to understand, albeit in small ways, how truly interconnected we all are in this world.

Very good arrangement

Very interesting program.

Your meetings are great!

future of bees survival is very important to worlds agriculture!

I had many more bees this year in my orange trees than the last couple of years, so hopefully that is a good sign.

Things I never knew about bees!

Really enjoyed the article on bees.

Valuable.

Great format and nice program

This is an outstanding format and the content I chose was very enjoyable. If the majority of your other meeting content is similarly put together, I will consider this stop as my number 1 make up location!

Very interesting!

I have always been interest in the life of bees, but never knew or thought about anything affecting their funtion. I wil have a new respect for bees

Your club has great programs!

Buzz - Buzz!

Interesting view on why we NEED bees.

I enjoyed both the information about Ireland myth and the program regarding bees.

I loved the article about the importance of the honeybee to the agriculture industry. That was very interesting - thank you!

Loved the IRISH lore and the bees story.

The explanation of CCD, what causes it, and how it could be avoided was very informative. My awareness has definitely been raised.

The explanation of CCD, what causes it, and how it could be avoided was very informative. My awareness has definitely been raised.

Great info, thanks.

You have wonderful programs. Thank you for the information on bees

Inspirational Thoughts! I enjoyed the program about the struggle that bees are encountering and thoughtful approach to addressing this important food and environmental issue.

Suprising and hopeful. Thanks

I enjoyed reading the "Inspirational Thought Qoutes". I used to raise bees as a hobby, so the article on bees was very interesting.

An interesting article! I had heard of CCD and assumed it was somehow traceable to environmental factors. But the largest part of the "environment" here seems to be human-related. I wonder if the commercial/industrial bee keepers are learning some lessons here and adopting the techniques of Kirk Webster?

This is a great idea. I have used itseveral times.

Great presentation on the Bees. 25,000 flowers? We have bears at our summer cottage and now I know a way of keeping them out of the cottage, Plywood and Nail.

I was pleased at the opportunity to learn more about what I can do to assist with the nurturing of the bee population.

great article

Gives a different spin on life and it's continuance

Honey bees are important to almost any plant group whether grains, fruits and berries. They cross pollinate to produce these edible vegetables. This is important for most of our edible produce. We can not lose bees.

The article correctly restates facts that we need to know.

We have a beekeeper in our club. At each clubmember's anniversary of joining the club the club purchases an 8oz? plastic squeezable jar of honey from our member and presents it as a gift to the member. CCB? visited his hives some time ago and he relayed this info to our club.

Good and important program

Very interesting. During th e warm months there is never a shortage of "neighborhood bees" in my yard.

I had no idea of the history of the Irish. I had no idea Queen Elizabeth I was so ....strident.

Very interesting meeting regarding bees. I was unaware, and surprised to learn, a hive can cross-pollinate 25 million flowers in a single day. Thank you for providing such fine programs.

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Very interesting article; great info about bees.

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Bees, a good topic.

amazing how a tiny insect can affect the entire planet

Good article; learned more about bees in a few minutes than I had learned in 64 years.

Very good program on bees, bee keeping, and CCD.

I did not realize how big a problem bees, and us all, are facing. Never heard of CCD before. Makes one appreciate nature's own ways.

Interesting

Fascinating!!!

Very interesting program about the bees.

Very interesting material

enjoyed the sergeant of arms presentation

very interesting program. Bees are part of God's plan. We have kind of messed them up!

Interesting to learn about bees and its link to food. There are a lot of rural bee farmers in China...

It is wonderful to attend almost like a live meeting. The topic of disappering bees is timely and we should all assume responsibility to ensure that the bees are around our back yards and gardens.

Important & interesting.

Excellent explanation of the serious beehive problem known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), its suspected causes, its harm to agriculture worldwide, and more importantly, successful responses which have spawned healthier hives. CCD is largely attributed to what 2008 book "Fruitless Fall" author Rowan Jacobsen calls "industrial agriculture disease", the "effects of farming vast chemically fertilized fields of single crops: no biodiversity, no local pollinators, no curbs on diseases [spread cross country]". In addition, bees are overfed a diet of corn syrup. The result is listless, weak bees, prone to illness and pre-mature death. Many agricultural products, like fruit trees, which depend upon bee pollination suffer; and harvests have failed. Yet, there's hope. Beekeepers are successfully utilizing new styles of hives, populated by more mite resistent bees, which have access to much broader, more nutricious diets. The early results seem to indicate these efforts, along with other proactive responses to the urgent agricultural need for vital bee populations, will lead to stronger hives which are less prone to CCD. Very interesting program.

Important topic.

very good

very good

Excellent program once again,here in Western New South Wales we hardly see any Bee,s we struggle to produce pumpkins and other veggies, we are considering purchasing one or two Bee hives to help pollinate in the future . We have started the process to be certified organic for our Beef prodution,as we do not use chemicals

Sometimes the truth stings!

Sometimes the truth stings!

Fascinating article on the importance of bees to world agriculture. Also interesting to find out that there never were any snakes in Ireland.

Amazing, you take one species out of the equation, and it changes the balance of the entire world.

Sometimes we have to play a little more attention to the things around us and figure out how they affect other things

Interesting meeting

Very Interesting program

My computer would not let me view the entire program. Message was that "file is damaaged"

Interesting topic! I enjoyed the information

I thought the piece on the future of bees was well-written and informative. It showed how mankind's quest for money has severely impacted the number of bees we have, which in turn, affects the quality and quantity of the honey. Great piece.

Pollination by bees is important to our ecology. Would extinction of bees translate into an eventual extinction of humans?

enjoyed info about the bees from Jacobsen.

Was aware of the bee's plight but enjoyed Jacobsen's article.

enlightening article about bees

Interesting material, and I enjoyed the information about Ireland in the introduction.

Interesting program. It identifies a problem and solutions. I will use this as a good discussion starter in an environmental ethics class I am teaching.

I thought this meeting was so informative. I had no idea that honey bees were in such dire conditions. This article will influence my behavior.

was interesting,well organized and informative. I had been aware and personnaly experienced lack of bees last year.

Enjoyed the article on bees.., shows the interconnection of organisms to the earth and crops. Good article to reveal how we need to be careful in the development of industrial societies and the potential negative impact on our most valuable commodity..., food!

The information on St Patricks day was refreshing.

Nice! I will recommend this virtual meeting to my club!

I would have liked the author on the Bee program to address the africanized bee issue. Unless I missed it.

makeup for 3/17

Very interesting and thought-provoking article. I will enjoy seeing the bees in the flowers on my patio much more after reading it. Also liked the St. Patrick's notes about today, the 17th. Being Irish (we even have a full-fledged Irish pub in our house), I have traveled to that wee country twice: once in 1994 taking along my three grandchildren, and again in 2004 with my husband. I would go again tomorrow if possible. And here's one more Irish blessing (or curse, as the case may be): May those that love us, love us. And for those that don't love us...May God turn their hearts. And if He can't turn their hearts, May he turn their ankles. So we will know them by their limp. Erin Go Bragh!

Thank you for sharing a story we should all be most aware of.

Interesting topic. I had no idea the importance of the bees and the pesticides that destroy their survival. Perhaps this is the reason people are getting sick and dying. This is obviously a serious situation to correct. Glad to see that the study as presented by Rowan Jacobsen has a positive outcome. Enjoyed the meeting.

Very interesting story. And timely.

Thoughtful and worthwhile

Very interesting story. You really don't realize that something as small as the honeybee has such a "big" job in our world. I truly enjoyed the story. Thanks.

very interesting. hopefully we will be smart enough to do something about our problem.

The information on St Patrick's Day and the Irish was most interesting and informative. The Bee article was as well and reenforces the notion that a return to a more natural way of doing agriculture is necessary for all our survival.

The information on St Patrick's Day and the Irish was most interesting and informative. The Bee article was as well and reenforces the notion that a return to a more natural way of doing agriculture is necessary for all our survival.

very good meeting.

The bee program did not come up.

Good information

Very interesting. Diversity works in Rotary and the natural world.

Great topic. At our home we follow organic gardening methods and we have lots of bees!

informative and interesting.