By Jillian Boenisch • Of the News-Register • 

MINDING THE HIVE

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Teresa.Busch

Correction on the spelling of our last name. It's BUSCH.

Moe

“The Mason bees and non-stinging hornets that are pollinators that come out first that we typically see, we did not see them this year,” Burch said. “Yet all our trees were covered in beautiful blooms but not enough bees to pollinate them.”

No surprise, as worldwide, insect populations are down 80- 90 percent.

Good feature article.
But it omitted the big elephant in the sky.

Most visible is the overhead geoengineering onslaught we see almost daily.
Military tankers and other aircraft spraying:
Nano-scale aluminum, barium, strontium, graphene ...
These toxic elements are harmful to insects (and all life).
Gone are our once gorgeous deep blue skies.
Before you could just block out the sun with your thumb at arm's length.
Now even on a relatively clear day there is a broad, silver-white halo.

Another obvious effect is the intense ultraviolet radiation.
This includes a new band of radiation, UVC.
UVC is passed through our collapsing ozone layer.
UVC is higher energy than UVA and UVB.
The high energy side of UVC borders on soft x-rays.
This penetrating radiation causes increased heating of surfaces.
For example, roads, sidewalks, and rooftops.
And you may have noticed car interiors getting much hotter, much faster.
More to the point, you guessed it, UVC is very damaging to insects.

See:

https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/

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