More bee deaths

i am quite alarmed now that i have heard of Colony Collapse- it looks to be a global issue that no one is paying attention to beyond claiming people who ARE looking at it are crazy ... i feel like i did when i was a child and everyone called my gramma nuts because she was into health foods- you know- carrot juice and vitamins - taking care of your health at home first with good food. NOW its acceptable, but then? she was very fringy.

here is what i saw today:

20,000 bees die in Canada

(AFP) – 23 hours ago

OTTAWA — A Canadian museum launched an investigation Friday into the sudden death of 20,000 bees on display in a glass encased hive.

"All 20,000 bees died within 48 hours," Amanda Fruci, publicist for the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, told AFP.

"The cause is being investigated but we know for sure that it wasn't colony collapse syndrome because that involves bees leaving a hive and never coming back, and in this case they all died in the hive."

In normal times, bee communities naturally lose around five percent of their numbers.

But with the syndrome known as colony collapse disorder (CDD), a third, half -- sometimes even 90 percent or all -- of the insects can be wiped out.

In the United States, government figures released last year showed a 29 percent drop in beehives in 2009, coming on the heels of declines of 36 and 32 percent in 2008 and 2007.

Mysterious decimation of bee populations have also been reported in Europe, Japan and elsewhere in recent years, threatening agricultural crops that depend on the honey-making insects for pollination.

Thousands of visitors had viewed the bees at work in a specially designed glass hive in the Royal Ontario Museum's popular hands-on biodiversity gallery over the past two years.

They were perfectly healthy until last week when they suddenly died.

The museum has already ruled out starvation or errors by staff as causes of death, but said poor ventilation, a parasite or too few worker bees to keep the comb warm over the winter may be to blame.

Other links covering the story, but most seem to have the bulk of the same information:

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/World/Story/STIStory_634104.html

http://www.antaranews.com/en/news/68001/20000-bees-die-in-canada

Bees

My concern is that we are ignoring major events in nature ( die offs) and there are signs coming from many directions. The bees concern me deeply. Since i was a child , bees fascinated me- their colonies , their co operation and of course how they play one of the most integral parts of nature- propagating food and flowers. What sustains us and what nourishes. My husband would think this concern was "feminine" - subtext? not worth much attention.

Die off Map

mass die offs of animals - i found a map:

http://gizmodo.com/5727206/all-the-mass-deaths-of-animals-plotted-on-a-map?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Mysterious 'creature' spotted in UK port

NineMSN reports that a strange creature was photographed by satellite, and visible on Google Earth, swimming in the Albert dock in Merseyside, near Liverpool, England. I must contact the local marine biologist - the image appears to show some sort of sea creature with a curved body, pointed snout and pectoral fins on either side of its body. Speculation is it might be a shark, but it's unusual for tropical island sharks to be found in this area.

India crop damage

Shashikant Trivedi / Bhopal January 21, 2011

Amid reports that pigeon-pea or tur is the worst weather-hit crop this rabi season, the output for the season is likely to be revised downwards as 80-90 per cent damage has happened in the case of gram (chana) in some pockets like Malwa belt.

The state government did not make any arrangements for the farmers to protect their other bumper crop this year from the recent odd weather...

Starlings

Someone told me that a lot of starlings were poisoned recently. Very Disturbing...

The Tarot Card Reading

The 6 of cups- debauchery, something deteriorating, things have been taken too far and are about to collapse.

The tower- the complete destruction of something, sometimes literal and can be a place where something is being held captive.

The princess of cups- a young person (or organization) , in character untrustworthy, usually a woman, can be an idea that is being presented under false pretenses.

On the whole the 2 water elements (cups) represent emotions gone awry thru neglect or intrigue and deterioration, the tower is a really bad card in any spread, usually 'the end is near'.
We take it to mean that a situation involving both emotions and literal elements (water) was about to collapse into itself and was at the doing of someone or something that had the plan to use up things and people as far as they possibly could.