Collecting Bee Pollen – Is This As Simple As It Sounds?
If you thought that collecting bee pollen meant that beekeepers were following certain rules and that the pollen was dried properly, you would be quite correct. But there is a lot more to it than that as the implications regarding where and how the actual bee pollen has been foraged is crucial.
Why are bees dying off?
The whole question about collecting bee pollen and being sure that the actual sources are safe has now been a vital question for the last ten years. The first reason is that as the bee colonies started to die off in the late nineties, people started to ask why this should be happening and what the implications were for pollination and then eventually for the whole of mankind. The words of Albert Einstein who stated that if bees died out then mankind, as we know it, would cease to exist after about four years began to sound less and less like science fiction!
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Look at these shocking facts!
- Europe has been proactive in banning the neonicotinoids which are a class of pesticides used in agriculture. France banned the use of Imidacloprid which is a seed dressing for sunflowers because they noted a drop of up to 35% in the bee population after its widespread use. The French beekeepers have noted that there has been some recovery in the hives and they are convinced that this is the way ahead. They have also banned the use of clothianidin which is a similar type of pesticide
- In Germany, a similar ban was implemented after a disastrous massive bee killing took place in the Baden Wurttemberg area. Again, the culprit was clothianidin. It was actually found in the bodies of the dead bees when examined. But now there is worry that because of pressure from Bayer, the manufacturer, the ban has been lifted at least for rape seed.
- About two years ago, the Italian authorities banned the use of neonicotinoids and for the first time since the late nineties, they were encouraged to see that the decimation of the bee population had been arrested.
How Safe Is Your Food?
Other suspicious pesticides/insecticides
- Thiamethoxam
- Imidacloprid
- Fipronil
- These are all used as seed treatment in sunflowers, corn and rapeseed.
In the USA, unfortunately, the same ban has never been applied at all and now the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) is being asked why they did not ban thee pesticides when they actually knew that they were a life sentence for bees and that the world’s pollination process was under threat.
This is why the whole question of foraging and collecting bee pollen is absolutely crucial for the production of not only the best and purest bee products but also for the survival of mankind itself.
Why not discover the other secrets in collecting bee pollen and also where the safest and most pristine conditions exist without ever having to worry about pesticides again?
