THE BIRDS & THE BEES 101: THE BEES REJECT POLLINATING GM CROPS
Bees may not be as large as us or have a comparable brain, but evidently they are smarter. Is it not troubling to you that bees will for all practical purposes NOT even land on GM crops for purposes of pollination? What comes next a GM bee to pollinate GM crops?
GM crops are dangerous plus one! What good does it do to wash filthy water? You can’t, neither can you make GM crops safe.
Ghostwolfemoon
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Doth Not Even Nature Itself Teach You? Wild Bees Reject GM Crop--Potential Major Impact on Pollination
Bee abundance data were collected using pan traps and standardized sweep netting, and pollination deficit was assessed by comparing the number of seeds per fruit from open-pollinated and supplementally pollinated flowers. There was no pollination deficit in organic fields, a moderate pollination deficit in conventional fields, and the greatest pollination deficit in GM fields. Bee abundance was greatest in organic fields, followed by conventional fields, and lowest in GM fields. Overall, there was a strong, positive relationship between bee abundance at sampling locations and reduced pollination deficits.
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Doth Not Even Nature Itself Teach You? Wild Bees Reject GM Crop--Potential Major Impact on Pollination
Added: Dec 29th, 2006 7:03 AM
Ecological Society of America, Dec 23, 2006
From Ecological Society of America Referring to a Sept. 2004 peer-reviewed article
Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada
Abstract. The ecological impacts of agriculture are of concern, especially with genetically modified and other intensive, modern cropping systems, yet little is known about effects on wild bee populations and subsequent implications for pollination. Pollination deficit (the difference between potential and actual pollination) and bee abundance were measured in organic, conventional, and herbicide-resistant, genetically modified (GM) canola fields (Brassica napus and B. rapa) in northern Alberta, Canada, in the summer of 2002.
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